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CARTER AND CO.’S GARDENER’S VADE-MECUM FOR 1862. 
CHOICE CARNATION AND PICOTEE SEEDS. 
From Plants selected from the finest Collections in Europe. 
Carnation Seed supplied from our Establishment has long borne a high character j and we have much gratification in 
assuring our Customers that the following Collections are finer than usual, and, we may confidently assert, the finest ever 
submitted to public notice ; they are grown for us expressly by an eminent Horticulturist in the South of Germany; the 
plants from which the seed is saved have been personally selected from the finest collections in England, France, Italy, and 
Germany by one of our Firm, who has travelled nearly the whole of Europe : we can confidently recommend the subjoined, 
as forming the choicest and most complete Collections ever submitted to public notice ; and we arc also enabled, from the 
extent of our arrangements, to offer them at a reduced price. 
No. 
2614 
2G15 
2G1G 
2G17 
2618 
2G19 
2620 
2621 
2622 
2623 
2624 
2625 
626 
2627 
2628 
s. d. 
12 choicest varieties Bizarre Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 0 
bronze, blue stri. white, rose and bronze. violet, cin. and black. red, rose and violet, 
lemon, red and brown. rose, red and violet. pel., rose and silver. carmine, blue and black, 
white, lilac and carmine. light violet and black. yel., red and brown. grey and flesh-coloured. 
12 choicest varieties Fameuse Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 6 
while and lilac. li. bronze, brown and white. white and blood. nankeen and rose, 
bronze and white. white and crimson. wh., violet and flesh. wh., cin. and cerise, 
white, scar, and cerise. purple and cerise. bronze and white. gold and rose, rare. 
1 2 superb varieties Faxe and Bizarre Faxe Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 6 
blood-red and black. chamois and violet. cham., grey and purple. yel., scar, and black, 
pk., sil. and blk. bronze. pink and sienna. li., yet. and sienna. orange, blue and car. 
yel., red and grey. dark cham. and scar. sienna, pur. and crim. yel., blue and brown. 
12 choicest varieties Flake Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 0 
white and violet. scarlet and grey. wh. and cinnamon. blue and scarlet. 
dk.br. and blk. pur. carmine and blue. grey and crimson. white and rose, 
crimson and dk. violet. white and peach. bronze and dk. brown. violet and grey. 
12 choicest varieties Yellow Bizarre and Self Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 6 
yel., flesh and rose. buff self . yel. rose purple. yel., pur. and slate, 
salmon bizarre. sal. rose purple. lemon self. yel. bizarre, 
yellow self. orange bizarre. yel. and lavender. ro. lav. bizarre. 
12 choicest varieties Yellow Flake Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 6 
buff and rose. salmon and red. yel. and scarlet. yel. and purple, 
yel. and crimson. orange and scarlet. salmon and rose. yel. and carmine, 
yel. and pink. yel. and rose. yel. and lavender. sal. and maroon. 
12 choicest varieties Yellow Fancy Carnations, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 6 
yel. and car. mottled. yet. and slate. yel., flesh and pur. yel., lavender mottled, 
or., flesh and scarlet. sal. and scarlet. yel., rose and slate. ye!., scarlet mottled, 
yel. and pink, shaded. yel., ro. shaded. yel., scar, spotted. sal., shaded cerise. 
12 choicest varieties White-ground Picotees, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 0 
wh. and dk. violet. white and scarlet. white and rose. white and violet, 
wh. and steel. wh. and dk. carmine. white and blue. white and purple, 
wh. and peach. wh. and cinnamon. white and bronze. white and chestnut. 
12 superb varieties Yellow-ground Picotees, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 6 
yel. and li. violet. yel. and cinnamon. yel. and dk. rose. yel. and grey, 
yel. and dk. violet. yel. and bronze. yel. and carmine. yel. and br. lilac, 
yel. and vio. pur. yel. and scarlet. yel. and chestnut. yel. and dk. brown. 
12 choicest varieties White-margined Picotees, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 0 
wh., grey and rose. wh., rose and black. wh., ro. and violet. wh., grey and rose, 
wh., flesh and dk. crim. wh., cin. awl dk. brown. wh., li. and dk. brown. wh., bronze and pur. 
wh., scar, and blue. wh., li. and dk. lilac. wh., steel and rose. wh., cerise and pur. 
12 choice varieties Perpetual Self Carnations, 10 seeds of each colour, as follows 3 0 
rose. bronze. deep rose. maroon, 
cerise. pale rose. scarlet. carmine, 
scarlet. yellow. purple. crimson. 
12 choice varieties Perpetual Fancy Carnations, 10 seeds of each, as follows 3 0 
rosy violet. dark carmine and lilac. orange. rose shaded, 
carmine, mottled. rose and black. peach and crimson. cherry and pink, 
pink and purple. dark purple. shaded pink. cerise and purple. 
12 choice varieties Perpetual Flake Carnations, 10 seeds of each, as follows 3 0 
rose. deep crimson. yell, striped. light scarlet, 
flesh and maroon. striped. brown flesh. light purple, 
scarlet and maroon. rose and purple. pink and lilac. peach and crimson. 
12 choice varieties Perpetual Bizarre Carnations, 10 seeds of each, as follows 3 0 
rose and lilac. scarlet and yellow. rose and scarlet. flesh and crimson, 
crimson. yell, and rose. dark purple. crimson and slate, 
pink and purple. pink and maroon. purple. fancy. 
12 choice varieties Perpetual Picotees, 10 seeds of each variety, as follows 3 0 
crimson edge. fancy rose edge. brown lilac edge. fancy purple edge, 
purple edge. claret edge. red edge. chocolate edge, 
rose edge. fancy maroon edge. scarlet edge. fancy chocolate edge. 
