CROMWELL GARDENS, CROMWELL, CONN. 



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Carnations 



New Carnations for 1914 



We have selected from the novelties in Carnations which 

 are offered for the coming season a few which show marked 

 improvement over older varieties. These we believe to be 

 worthy of a place in e\ery greenhouse. We have placed 

 advance orders for cuttings with the various introducers and 

 <5ffer to our customers well-grown plants from pots instead of 

 cuttings, which in small quantities seldom are satisfactory. 

 This enables us to ship plants which will give satisfaction. 



Princess Dagmar. {M. A. Patten.) A new crimson variety. 

 Very large, full flowers, nicely formed. The habit of the plant is 

 excellent. The color very deep. This variety is the highest type of 

 dark red or crimson in existence. 

 Plants from 2M-iiich pots: $3.00 per doz., $20.00 per 100. 



Matchless. (The Cottage Gardens.) This splendid Carnation is the 

 most promising of any white variety ever offered. The flowers are 

 large and borne on long, stiff stems. It is a free bloomer, very 

 fragrant, with fringed edged petals. The calyx is good. It has 

 won the Gold Medal at the International Flower Show and we 

 consider it one of the coming recognized standard commercial 

 Carnations. 



Plants from 2M-iiich pots: $3.00 per doz., $20.00 per 100. 



Philadelphia. (Browne.) This new Car- 

 nation has been exhibited on frequent 

 occasions during the past year and has 

 met with a very favorable reception. It 

 is a true rose pink in color. The flowers 

 are large and well formed; the stems are 

 long and straight. The calyx is of the best. 

 It is a variety with strong constitution, 

 and having the other desirable quahties 

 it should fill a long-felt requirement for 

 a variety of this color. 



Plants from 234-inch pots: $3.00 per 

 doz., $20.00 per 100. 



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Gorgeous. (Peter Fisher.) This is the " American Beauty 

 of the Carnation family. It is a giant m growth and 

 flowers freely, but not so prolificaUy as smaUer varieties. 

 In color it mav be described as rich, glowing crimson, suf- 

 fused with briUiant vermihon. It becomes scarlet under 

 artificial hght. It is a variety for high quahty bloom and 

 produces exceptional flowers in Midwinter. 



Plants from 214-inch pots: $4.00 per doz., $25.00 per 100. 



Red Champion. (Darner) Among the new Carnations that are 

 being introduced this sea.son, Dorners Scarlet Seedhng Red 

 Champion has the distinction of being the most promising m 

 its color that has been offered since the advent of Beacon. 

 In habit of gi-o^N'th and formation of flower it is a duplicat^ of 

 White W onder. It comes to us from introducers who have 

 given us many of our best commercial varieties and the intro- 

 ductions of the famous hybridists are always well worthy of a 

 trial and notable examples hke White Wonder have proven the 

 superiority of this strain of seedling Carnations. If Red 

 Champion makes good the claims of the introducers and proves 

 to be a "Scarlet White Wonder" it will be one of the most 

 popular and widely grown varieties. 



Plants from 214-inch pots: $3.00 per doz., $20.00 per 100. 



