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L. L. MAY & CO. ST. PAUL, MINN. 
CflRNflTION nflRQUERITE. 
Of all the most strikiner novelties that have been placed before the 
public in the last few years, none have as yet equaled these beautiful 
carnations, nor has any novelty or specialty given so much satisfaction. 
We sold many thousand packets of Carnation Mar^erite last year and 
the hundreds of testimonials we have received from those who purchased 
from tis are very gratifying indeed, and mduced us to piish more fully this 
year these unequaled summer blooming carnations. The flowers of these 
and the Queen Carnations are remarkably large and very double, meas- 
uring in nearly every instance, two inches across, and the colors range 
through many shades of red. pink and white, forming some beautiful 
contrasts. A striking feature of these carnations is the wonderful pro- 
ductiveness of the plant. The flowers are very numerous. We counted 
on one plant this year thirty-seven blooms, which is only an ordinary 
showing. If sown in spring, flowering begins early in summer and con- 
tinues blooming until late in fall, when they can be potted for the house 
and will flower abundantly throughout the wmter. Pkt. 15c., 4 pkts. 
60o. 
QUEEN CflRNflTIONS, 
T^ast year we offered for the first time the lovely Marguerite Carna- 
tions, and this season wc are able to offera decided improvement on this 
grand strain. The Queen Carnations originated in Italy, and are the 
greatest novelty we have ever seen in the line of flower seeds. They 
may be sown in boxes in the house during the winter months, and by the 
time spring sets in they will be large plants ready for setting out doors 
in the garden, or seed ma.v be sown in the early spring. 
The €lueen Carnations will flower in less than three months 
from sowing' of seed, and produce immense blossoms of all shades 
and colors, many of them being beautifully striped and mottled. 
Nearly all of the flowers are perfectly double and wonderfully 
fragrant. 25c, per pkt. 
inr/iriENS suLtflNfl htbrid/i. 
A new and extremely beautiftil variety of the charming "Sultana 
Balsam." It is very easily raised from seed and makes a very fine pot 
plant for house culture, but will do equally well for bedding purposes. 
It flowers profusely and is in continual bloom. The flowers are glorious 
in their various colors of rose, salmon, crimson, etc., giving beautiful 
contrasts. Pkt. 15c., 4 pkts. 50c. 
CflRblN/IL FOFFY. 
The dwarf and particiilarly robust and compact habit of gTi^)wth of 
this novelty render it entirely distinct from all other double poppies. The 
plant attains a height of about eighteen inches, and is furnished with 
deeply cut. dark green foliage, with which ten to twelve enormous and 
very double flowers, of glowing scarlet, on white grcjund. stand out in 
striking contrast. The blooming period of the Cardinal Poppy is of 
longer duration than that of any other d ouble annual variety, and this 
coupled with the uncommon showiness of its flowers, will soon bring it 
into general request for the formation of highlv effective beds and for 
enlivening mixed borders. Pkt. 30c., 4 pkts. $1.00, 
