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ELLIOTT NURSERY COMPANY, PITTSBURG, PA. 
POLYANTHUS, or COWSLIP 
This charming spring-blooming plant belongs to the Primrose 
family, the hanly 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., $G per 100. 
Large-flowered White. An improved variety, with very large flowers; 
very fine. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz., $8 per 100. 
POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM 
A magnificent plant for producing bold masses of foliage, growing 
-8 feet high in good soil. Numerous fragrant white spirea-like 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. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz., $8 per 100. 
PYRETHRUMS 
The Pyrethrums are so simply and easily cultivated that they 
may be recommended to all who possess a garden, whether small or 
largo. They are perfectly hardy and absolutely invaluable for cut- 
ilowers through the summer and autumn months. The flowers are 
bright and elegantly borne on long stems, most convenient for vase 
■decoration. In form the double varieties are somewhat aster- or 
chrysanthemum-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 tho severest winter without protection. The single-flowered 
varieties are veritable colored marguerites and possess a range of 
color and hardiness that marguerites might envy in vain. Nothing 
KUDBKGKIA, " GOLDEN ULOW ” 
foxglove (See page 26) 
(From the “English Flower Garden”) 
can surpass the Pyrethrum for profusion of flowers in the season ; 
flowers succeed flowers without stint, and the blossoms are not injured 
by storm or sun. Their position should be in the border or in beds. 
The plants may, with advantage, be cut down after June, which will 
keep up a greater succession of bloom through the autumn. Pyre- 
thrums 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 gTeatly improved upon during the past ten or fifteen years, 
which is the period during which Kelway & 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 popular. 
I offer a splendid lot of plants of the choicest single varieties grown 
from Kelway’s famous strains. 
All C 0 I 0 T 8 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. I have used this a great deal in my land¬ 
scape work, and have found a large circular group of it surrounded 
by the dwarfer Rndbeckia speciona extremely effective. 15 cts. each, 
$1.25 per doi., $8 per 100. 
