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CARTER AND CO.’S GARDENER’S VADE-MECUM FOR 1802. 
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CARTER’S FLORAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 
James Carter and Co. beg leave respectfully to announce that under the above designation, they commenced issuing in the 
Sprmg of 1857 a senes of Coloured Drawings by Andrews), which will be continued with each annual publication of their 
Catalogues. It is their intention that each Plate shall contain the most desirable novelties of the season, together with any 
remarkable improvement in the varieties already in cultivation. One of the chief reasons for the publication of these Illus- 
trations is that they may serve as a guide to Amateurs and others in the selection of good new Flowers from among the 
great number sent out annually, many of which are often inferior to the older varieties. 
The price of each Plate is affixed, and forwarded post-free on receipt of Postage Stamps to the amount; but should any 
Customers wish to become permanent Subscribers, it they will kindly write to that effect, the requisition shall be registered, 
and the Plates iorwarded as issued. ° 
• PLATE No. 1, published January 1857, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— Godetia roseo-alba, pure White , Lupinus pubescens clegans, CaUiopsis coronata, Leptosiplion densiflorus albus 
Obeliscaria pulchemma, Alonsoa Warsewiczii, Linum grandiflorum verum kermesinum, Salpiglossis, new dark 
scarlet, Acroolmium roseum, and Violet Truffaut Aster. 
PLATE No. 2, published January 1858, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— Nasturtion, new dwarf crimson, Lupinus hybridus insignis, Lupinus Menziesii, Clarkia pulchella marginata, 
Indian 1 mk, white marbled , , Delphinium formosum, CEuothera Drummondi nana, Dwarf Drench Marigold and 
New while Rose Campion. 
PLATE No. 3, published February 1858, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— 1 Tropteolum Lobbii, Caroline Schmidt, (Jail-nations , perpetual or Tree, Carnations, prize varieties, Taesonia ignea 
and Ipomsea liedei-acea superba. 
PLATE No. 4, published September 1858, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— Hyacinths : Panorama, double red, Bloeksborg, double blue, Prince of Waterloo, double white, Fireball single red 
Charles Diclsens, single blue, and Voltaire, single white. 
PLATE No. 5, published January 1850, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— Gaillardia liybrida grandiflora, CEnothcra bistorta Veitehi, New miniature striped Gourd, Lupinus Hui-twe^i 
cosies tinus, Nolana paradox violacea, Dwarf jotted Nasturtions, Carter's Tom 'Thumb Nasturtions, and Fenzlia 
diantliitlora. 
PLATE No. 6, published February 1859, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— Dwarf German Stock, Finest double Balsams, Marigold, orange French, Lupinus nanus albus, Cosmidium Bur- 
ridgi, Lobelia formosa, Viscaria coeli-rosa alba, and Viscaria Dunnetti. 
PLATE No. 7, published September 1859, price Is. Gd., 
Contains — Babiana villosa, Ixia crateroides, Gloxinia erecta, Helen of Orleans, Ixia maculata sulpburea. Ixia viridillora Xxia 
var. Dolphin, Tydea, var. Aubcr, Achimenes, var. Leighii, Gloxinia, var. Madame Thibaut , and Iris pavonia. ’ 
PLATE No. 8, published January 1800, price Is. Gd., 
Contains — Dianthus obinensis Heddewigi, Dianthus cliinensis laciniatus, New Hybrid blue-edged Sweet Pea, Lobelia gracilis 
rosea, Callirhoe digilata, Nigella biepanica alba, Nigella bispanica atropurpurea, Clarkia pulchella var mtegri- 
petala, 
PLATE No. 9, published February 1860, price Is. Gd., 
Contains— Aster, La Supcrbe, CEnothera biennis var. hirsutissima, Datura chlorantlift tl. pi., New scarlet Scabious, Larkspur 
tricolor elegaus, Lychnis Haageana, Spraguea umbellata, and Ipomoea Hmbata elegantissima. 
DOUBLE-SIZED PLATE. 
PLATE No. 10, just published, price 8s. 
This Plate, which is double the size of the previous Numbers, contains drawings of some of the splendid varieties of French 
Seedling Gladiolus from Gandavensis: the specimens drawn are selected without reference to price, and may be taken as a 
fair average of these most beautiful flowers, which may he planted any lime from November to April. The following are tho 
names of the Gladioli figured : — 
Brenchleyonsis. Rebecca. 
Pegase. Achille. 
Osiris. Madame Leseble. 
PLATE No. 11, published March 1801, price Is. Gd., 
Contains — Zinnia clegans, double-flowered, Linum grandifiorum, purple, Vemoniu noveboracensis, Aquilegia caryophylloides 
fl. pi., Convolvulus tricolor monstrosus, Hunnemannia fumarisefolia, Gilia acliilleiefolia alba, and Linaria bipartita 
splendida. 
PLATE No. 12, published December 1861, price Is. Gd., 
Contains — Gfnotliora Lamarckiana and Clarkia pulchella (lore pleno. 
