Elliott's fifty-third annual edition of Elliott's fifty-third annual edition of fall bulbs elliottsfiftythi1898wmel Year: 1898 CEOWN IMPEEIALS. CROWN IMPERIALS. These are handsome border plants of stately growth, perfectly hardy, and produce their pendant, bell-shaped flowers in clusters. They will succeed well in free drained soils, and are very effective planted in clumps in shrubberj' borders. Mixed varieties. 12c. each; $ per doz. Add for postage 3 cents per bulb extra. COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. (Autamn Plo'werlns: Crocus.) A pretty bulb with flowers resembling a Crocus, purple, white stri
Elliott's fifty-third annual edition of Elliott's fifty-third annual edition of fall bulbs elliottsfiftythi1898wmel Year: 1898 CEOWN IMPEEIALS. CROWN IMPERIALS. These are handsome border plants of stately growth, perfectly hardy, and produce their pendant, bell-shaped flowers in clusters. They will succeed well in free drained soils, and are very effective planted in clumps in shrubberj' borders. Mixed varieties. 12c. each; $ per doz. Add for postage 3 cents per bulb extra. COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. (Autamn Plo'werlns: Crocus.) A pretty bulb with flowers resembling a Crocus, purple, white striped—treat as Crocus. The peculiarity of the plant is, that the flowers are produced late in autumn, and the leaves appear in the following spring, ripening the seed ; a very interesting plant. The bulbs are large and should re- main some time without being disturbed. 10c. each ; 75c. per doz. By mail add 3 cents per bulb. CYCLAMEN. Among the many charming plants which grace the flower house and sitting-room during the spring and winter months, few, if any, are so interestingly pretty and accom- modating as the Cyclamen ; its neat, chaste, graceful little elegant flowers, varj-ing from snow-white to crimson, secure for it universal admiration, while the simplicity of its culture brings it within the reach of even those who can command no better accommodation than a sitting room window. Cyclamen Persicum Giganteum. Prize strain. 20c. each; | per doz. Add for postage 10 cents per dozen. CYCLAMEN PEESICTJM. ERANTHIS HYEMALIS. C^^inter Aconite.) One of the earliest harbingers of spring, when estab- lished, forming sheets of large glistening-yellow flowers. It grows freelj- under deciduous trees, among grass or in fact in almost any position or soil. 5c. each ; 25c. per doz.; $ per 100. By mail postpaid. GALANTHUS ELWESII. (Xbe Giant Snowdrops.) This is the largest and the earliest of all the snowdrops; flowers nearly three times the ordinary size; is very de- sirable fo
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