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J. WILKINSON ELLIOTT, PITTSBURG, PA. 
Tulips and Phlox subulata 
CREEPING PHLOXES 
The Creeping Phloxes are among the most charming of hardy 
plants. They cover the ground with a mat of evergreen foliage at all 
times, and during the month of May make the most beautiful carpet 
of white, purple or pink flowers. The bloom is so dense that the foliage 
is entirely hidden. These Phloxes bloom again in the fall, but not so 
freely. They are very useful for border edging, rock work or cover¬ 
ing bare banks, and for covering graves. Planted in large masses 
nothing can be more effective. 
Subulata, Pink. 
11 Alba. White. 
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Repens. 
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Atropurpurea. Deep rosy purple 
A beautiful native variety growing 
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POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM 
A magnificent plant for producing bold masses of foliage, growing 
8 feet high in good soil. Numerous fragrant white spiraea-like flowers 
issuing 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. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz., $8 per 100. 
TUFTED PANSIES, OR BEDDING VIOLAS 
The Tufted Pansies are hybrids of Pansies and Viola comuta , and 
are quite distinct from Pansies in habit and coloring, and I think far 
more beautiful. The flowers are smaller, but unique in coloring, and 
the plants spread from the roots like a violet, making them true 
perennials. They are perfectly hardy, enduring the extremely cold 
weather of 1898-99 in an open border without protection. They are 
immensely popular in England and Scotland, where they are gener¬ 
ally used for bedding and table decorations, and nothing can be 
more charming for either purpose. I have always admired these 
flowers in England, but was not certain that they would thrive in this 
climate, but after testing them a year in my garden I am convinced 
that they will do as well here as they do abroad. I have had a splen¬ 
did lot of plants grown from the best collection in Scotland. They 
can be planted in the summer, fall or spring. Price, 15 cts. each; 
$1 per doz., $6 per 100. 
EUROPEAN TREE PEONIES 
Elsewhere in this catalogue I describe Japanese Tree Peonies. The 
European varieties are equally attractive, but being grafted on her¬ 
baceous peonies, will not sucker, which is the only drawback with 
the Japanese plants. The European plants do not bloom as young as 
the Japanese sorts. Fine plants in best named varieties, $1.75 each, 
$15 per doz. 
PLATYCODON MARIESI 
A valuable dwarf variety, bearing blue bell-shaped flowers, nearly 
3 inches across, for a long season in late summer and early autumn. 
One of the finest of border plants. The unopened buds are nearly as 
beautiful as the flowers themselves, and are particularly interesting 
in their peculiar shape. Extremely effective when planted in groups. 
15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz., $10 per 100. 
POLYANTHUS, OR COWSLIP 
This charming spring-blooming plant belongs to the Primrose 
family, the hardy varieties of which are so very popular in England, 
but are rarely seen in this country, owing partly to an impression 
that they cannot be grown in this climate. This is a mistake, as they 
do very well here. For the front of borders and shrubbery, for 
spring bedding, and for naturalizing in moist and partly shaded 
places, nothing can be finer. The coloring in the flowers is especially 
rich and fine. At this writing I have a long border of these plants in 
bloom in my garden, and nothing gives me greater pleasure. They 
are so charming in habit, rich and varied in coloring, and so early to 
bloom, coming, with the spring-flowering bulbs, that nothing can be 
more acceptable. I use them freely for decorating the dining table 
and library windows, taking plants up from the border and putting 
them in fern dishes and pots, where they go on blooming as if they 
had never been disturbed. Their hardiness has been pretty well 
settled by the severe winter of 1898 and 1899. The minimum tem¬ 
perature at my country place was 24 degrees below zero. Not a 
single Polyanthus was injured, and they were planted in wet soil at 
that. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz., $0 per 100. 
Large-Flowered White. An improved variety, with very large 
flowers; very fine. 20 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
