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Miss Ella V. Baines, The Woman Florist, Springfield, Ouio. 



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WINTER" COLLECTION OF 



Six Beautiful Carnations, 



There is no sweeter flower than the Carnation, and they are without question the best of all plants for "Winter 

 blooming. I have selected six of the very choicest kinds, including all colors of this delightful flower, and know 

 you will not be disappointed in getting these varieties. They are large plants, ready to begin blooming at once. 

 Many of them will be in bud when I send them to you. 



"Winter" Collection of Carnations, 10 



cents each ; or the Set of six 



for 50 cents. 



Delia Fox. — Its color is almost indiscribable. Of 

 a rosy orange shape, striped and flaked with 

 carmine, never bursts its calyx, is very free 

 and early flowering, and can always be cut 

 ■with a long stem, a most desirable feature in 

 a colored Carnation nowadays. It is very 

 easily grown and sure to bloom. 



Flora Hill. — I believe this to be the finest new or 

 old Carnation in cultivation. The flowers 

 are of the purest white, with petals of great 

 substance, making it one of the best. It will 

 keep a long time when cut. Fragrant and 

 very productive of bloom, and, in all, one of 

 the best for Winter blooming. 



Abundance. — Flowers very large and perfect in 

 form. Color a bright rosy-pink, with salmon 

 shading when the flowers are <ully expanded. 

 Healthy grower and remarkably free bloom- 

 er. Plant dwarf, growing about fourteen 

 inches high. One of the best pink varieties. 

 Excellent lor pot culture. 



Jubilee. — Very dwarf, and of a nice, bushy 

 growth, forcing very long flower stems, each 

 individual flower possessing a stem varying 

 from three to eight inches in leagth. It has 

 perfectly-formed flowers. Color a rich, bright, 

 dazzling scarlet. Recommended. 



Secretary Blaine. — A grand Carnation, with enor- 

 mous-sized flowers, often measuring three 

 and a halt inches in diameter, and at the same 

 time being one of the freest-blooming Carna- 

 tions I have ever seen. Ground color of 

 flower the purest white, very handsomely 

 penciled with the richest crimson. 



Anna Webb. — The color is of the darkest and 

 most intense velvety crimson-maroon, very 

 dark, and at the same time very bright. 



Price, 10 cents each ; eight sorts, of our selection, for 50 cents. 

 Large two-year-old plants, to bloom at once, 25 cents each. 



Carminiatus Perfectus. — Full, round flower of perfect shape, and 

 of a rich, soft carmine rose, with deep crimson eye. 



Collerii. — Flowers buff-yellow, with a crimson-scarlet base. Pe- 

 culiarly handsome. 



Cooperii Tricolor. — This beautiful Hibiscus has the most lovely 

 foliage of deep green, crimson, pink and white, blended 

 nicely; flowers deep crimson. 



Double Crimson. — This grand variety has immense flowers of 

 the richest crimson. Combined with glossy foliage renders 

 it the best of all. 



General Courtigis. — Very grand, large-sized flower, single, light 

 scarlet; very showy. This is the brightest of all. 



Grandiflorns. — Rich, glossy foliage, literally covering the plant 

 with scarlet-crimson flowers. 



Hibiscus Auriantica. — Large, double, orange-colored flowers. 



Miniatus, Semi-Plenus. — Semi-double flowers of a brilliant ver- 

 milion-scarlet, petals waved and recurved, and very hand- 

 some. 



Hagnificns. — A very large flower, and of perfect form. Color a 

 deep magenta, ends of petals touched with brown, foliage 

 finely toothed. 



Sub Violaceous. — Flowers of enormous size, of a beautiful car- 

 mine, tinted with violet, probably the largest flower of the 

 Hibiscus family, and an unusually free bloomer. I take 

 great pleasure in recommending this fine plant. 



Schizopetalns. — A curiously formed flower pendant, the petals in 

 a whorl, orange-red, totally unlike any other Hibiscus, or in- 



deed any other flower, the petals are open like lace-work* 

 Not only a great curiosity, but highly ornamental. 



Senator Evans. — A beautiful Hibiscus. The shape of its flower 

 is identical with the Auriantica, and has the same purple 

 markings at base of petals. The color of this variety, in- 

 stead of being orange, is a bright lemon color. 



Sinensis Qiganteus. — This is a plant for house culture during 

 Winter or Summer, or for plunging outside during Summer. 

 It blooms at all times during the year. The plants make a 

 hard wooded shrub like an Oieander, branching freely and 

 flowering profusely, commencing to bloom when not more 

 than a foot high. As a specimen plant for large pots or tubs 

 it has an equal only in the Brugmansia. Its flowers are of 

 enormous size, often eight to ten inches across, opening flat, 

 and of such a vivid crimson-scarlet color that they can be 

 seen for a long distance like a flaming torch. It is hard to 

 find anything among flowers more strikingly showy. They 

 can be wintered in a cellar or pit with perfect safety, and if 

 one does not care to grow tlv m all Winter, one should have 

 one or two for Summer displaj'. No plant is surer to grow 

 and thrive under any treatment than thif, and few can ever 

 be so satisfactory. Price, 15 cents eai h. 



Versicolor. — A varietv combining in its flowers all colors of the 



whole lamily, being handsomely striped crimson, buff, rose, 



and white. 

 Zebrinus — Doub'.e. the outer petals scarlet, edged with yellow, 



inner petals are very irregular, curiously variegated with 



creamy-yellow- white. 



Special Offer.— The Set of Hibiscus, fifteen varieties, splendid plants, for $1.00. 



