ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. 
POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM 
A magnificent plant for producing hold masses of foliage, growing 
8 feet high in good soil. Numerous fragrant white spirenlike flowers 
issue from the axils of the leaves. A stately plant for large flower- 
borders, shrubberies, wild gardens, banks of streams and ponds and for 
growing beneath large trees. 15 cts. each, $1 50 per doz., $8 per 100. 
Pyrethrums grow freely in any ordinary garden soil; a good rich loam 
suits them, perhaps, best, and in order to secure size, brilliancy and 
number of flowers, plenty of ordinary well-rotted manure may be 
added to well-trenched, well-drained soil, and plenty of water may be 
given when they are in bud in the dry summer weather. A mulching 
may be applied in dry localities with advantage. The older varieties 
have been greatly improved upon during the past ten or fifteen years, 
which is the period during which Kelway <te Son have made them a 
specialty, and the refined shape and brilliant or soft shades of the 
newer sorts have caused the Pyrethrum to become deservedly popu¬ 
lar. We offer a splendid lot of plants of tlie choicest single varieties 
grown from Kelway’s famous strains. 
All Colors Mixed. 20 cts. each, $1.75 per doz., $10 per 100. 
RUDBECKIA (“Golden Glow”) 
This hardy plant of recent introduction is entitled to rank with 
single hollyhocks for picturesqueness. In good soil it grows from 8 
to 10 feet high, branches freely, and for two months in midsummer 
is literally covered with its large, bright yellow, double flowers. As 
a garden or lawn plant it is extremely decorative, and equally so as 
a cut-flower, and very lasting. We have used this a great deal in our 
landscape work, and have found a large circular group of it sur¬ 
rounded by the dwarfer Rudbeckiu speciosa extremely effective. 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $8 per 100. 
THALICTRUM AQUILEGIFOLIUM 
This is undoubtedly one of the most desirable hardy plants in cul¬ 
tivation. Its fine habit, beautiful foliage and masses of lovely flowers, 
varying from white to purple through all intermediate shades, make 
it one of the most handsome things that can he planted. Height 2 to 
feet; blooms in May and June. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz., $10 
per 100. 
VERONICA LONGIFOLIA SUBSESSILIS 
(Speedwell) 
A pretty species with blue flowers, produced on spikes a foot long, 
continuing in bloom the entire summer and fall. One of the best 
hardy flowers, and should be in every permanent border. 15 cts. 
each, $1.50 per doz 
VIOLA CORNUTA 
These plants are sometimes known as Horned Pansies. They are 
the most satisfactory of the Violet family, perfectly hardy. They 
produce their beautiful purple or white flowers in the greatest profu¬ 
sion early in the spring, sometimes in March, and continue in bloom 
until extremely hot summer weather comes on. The flowers are as 
large as small pansies and are thrown well above the foliage, which 
is neat, compact and beautiful. 
Each Per doz. 
Blue.$0 15 $1 50 
Alba. White. 20 2 00 
“ Purple Queen.'’ Pale lavender-purple. 15 1 50 
Papilio ("Butterfly Horned Pansy"). A distinct and beau¬ 
tiful variety, the flowers of which resemble a butterfly. 11 1 50 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA 
FOXGLOVE (See page 28; 
(From the “English Flower Garden.") 
PYRETHRUMS 
The Pyrethrums are so simply and easily cultivated that they may 
be recommended to all who possess a garden, whether small or large. 
They arc perfectly hardy and absolutely invaluable for cut-flowers 
through the summer and autumn months. The flowers are bright 
and elegantly borne on long stems; most convenient for vase deco¬ 
ration. In form the double varieties are somewhat aster- or chrys¬ 
anthemum-like, and as their chief beauty is in the months of May 
and June, they may well be designated Spring Chrysanthemums, 
possessing the advantage over the chrysanthemums of being able to 
withstand the severest winter without protection. The single-flow¬ 
ered varieties are veritable colored marguerites and possess a range 
of color and hardiness that marguerites might envy in vain. Noth¬ 
ing can surpass the Pyrethrum for profusion of flowers in the season: 
flowers succeed flowers without stint, and the blossoms are not in¬ 
jured by storm or sun. Their position should he in the border or in 
beds. The plants may, with advantage, he cut down after June, 
which will keep up a greater succession of bloom through the autumn. 
Kalmia latifolia, commonly known as Mountain Laurel, is the most 
beautiful of all evergreen shrubs. Like the Rhododendron, it likes a 
light, loose soil that is free from lime, and will grow in either sun or 
shade but will flower more freely in the sun. The flowers are wheel¬ 
shaped and set in close corymbs on the ends of the stems, pure white 
to pink, and appear in June in such profusion as to almost hide the 
foliage. It is only of late years that American planters have 
awakened to the beauty and value of this native shrub in all proper 
locations, though it has been highly esteemed and largely planted in 
Europe for many years. In numerous show places in England, the 
collection of "American plants”to which a visitor is conducted with 
pride is made notable by our Mountain Laurel, which can so readily 
be established in proper locations anywhere in the United States. 
Collected specimens are not so useful as nursery-grown plants, which 
transplant with entire safety. Should be planted early in September 
or in the spring. Fine nurserv-grown plants, 25 cts. each, $2.50 per 
doz.; 50 cts. each, $5 per doz.; 75 cts. each, $8 per doz.; $1 each, 
$10 per doz.; according to size. 
