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BEST PLANTS FOR GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 



Select List of 



CARNATIONS. 



The following list embraces the cream of the 

 standard and well-tried varieties, together with 

 the best of the new introductions of 1896. 

 Alaska. Very fine large pure white. 

 Anna Webb. A fine crimson, deeply fringed, 

 of medium size, and brandling habit ; florets 

 very full ; a free continuous bloomer. 

 Annie M. Lonsdale. This variety has the 

 same general characteristics as Delia Fox, but 

 is of a pure white color ; very fine. 

 Armazindy. Color is pure white, very lightly 

 pencilled with scarlet ; can almost be used as 

 a white; the stem is very stiff and quite slender, 

 nearly 3 feet high. The flower is large and never bursts. 

 Abundance. A unique pink Carnation. We do not be- 

 lieve that any other Carnation extant will produce as 

 many blooms ; it is continuous throughout the year, with 

 a profusion to each plant ; it is a dwarf, slender grower, 

 stems averaging about 12 inches. Color salmon pink, 

 approaching red. 

 Buttercup. Rich golden yellow, with a few streaks of 

 clear carmine; of vigorous habit and very fioriferous. 

 The florets are full and very double. 

 Chester Pride. White, pencilled rosy carmine ; large, 



strong, good habit. 

 Delia Fox. A new variety of great merit, being on the 

 style of the popular Daybreak, but darker in color, with 

 stems 24 inches long ; one of the strongest growing and 

 freest flowering varieties in cultivation. 

 Helen Keller. One of the finest fancy varieties yet in- 

 troduced, pure white, heavily pencilled with scarlet- 

 Jubilee. The red Carnation for which everybody has 

 been looking. Color intense scarlet, of the 

 richest shades. One of the largest flowers 

 among reds. Stems slender, but very stiff; 

 average 18 inches in height. Calyx very strong, 

 never bursts ; flower quite full and well built. 

 A presistent bloomer and very free. 



Daybreak. A delicate shade 



of pink, greatly admired. 

 Lizzie McGowan. Purest 



white, large, full and very attractive. 

 Very prolific- 

 Mme. Diaz Albertini. A persisting free 

 blooming variety of exceptional size. 

 Flowers very large, round and full. 

 Color, light flesh pink, with a strong 

 clove fragrance. 

 Daybreak. Mrs. Henry M. Stanley. A sport from 



Buttercup, of a rich terra cotta, shading into yellow and red. 

 Ophelia. A large perfect shaped flower of a rich pink color. 

 Portia. Finest rich scarlet. 

 Princess Bonnie. Light pink ground prettily marked with a 



darker shade. 

 Sweet Briar. Pink, between Daybreak and Grace Wilder in 

 shade, a strong healthy grower, an early free and continuous 

 bloomer, flowers fragrant, of good size and form, and borne 

 on long stiff stems. 

 The Stuart. A most brilliant scarlet variety, flowers very 



large, a free prolific bloomer. 

 Thomas Cartledge. A beautiful carmine. It is a vigorous 



grower, early to come in flower and extremely prolific. 

 Triumph. Color is a pure pink, of yellowish tinge, and never 

 shows a touch of purple ; one of the very largest blooms that 

 we know of; stem perfectly erect, and from 2 to 3 feet long. 

 Has a strong calyx that never bursts ; is very prolific, and re- 

 sponds to very ordinary culture; a strong, heavy grower. 

 William F. Dreer. This fine variety is a seeding from Butter- 

 cup crossed with Century. It is of exceedingly strong, healthy 

 growth, upright and robust. Its color is a beautiful rose pink, 

 deeply fringed petals, very large, often 3 inches in diameter. 

 William Scott. Growth vigorous, very free blooming, flowers 

 large and never bursting, of a rich rose color ; stems 

 very long, holding the flowers erect. 

 Price of any of the above Carnations 16 cts. each ; ?1 50 per 

 doz.; set of 23 varieties for $2.50 



Helen Keller. 



