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CARTERS’ CARNATION and PICOTEE. 
Personally Selected from the finest Collections In Europe. 
Price per Collection s d. 
No. 77 — 12 choicest vars. BIZARRE CARNATIONS . xo seeds of each variety 3 6 
No. 78— 12 choicest vars. SELF CARNATIONS 10 seeds ul each vanety 3 d 
No. 79 — i2choicest vars. FLAKE CARNATIONS 10 seeds oi each variety 3 6 
No. 80 — 1 2 choicest vars. BIZARRE&SELF CARNATIONS10 seeds o» each vanety 3 6 
No. 81 — 1 2 choicest vars. YELLOW FLAKE CARNATIONS10 seeds ot each vanety 3 6 
No. 82— 1 2 choicest vars. YELLOW FANCY CARN ATIONS10 seeds of each variety 3 6 
No. 83 — 12 choicest vars. WHITE-GROUND PICOTEES 10 seeds ot each variety 3 o 
No. 84 — 12 superb vars. YELLOW— GROUND PICOTEES 10 seeds of each variety 3 6 
No. 85 — 12 choice varieties PERPETUAL CARNATIONS 10 seeds of each variety 3 0 
No. 86 — 12 choice varieties PERPETUAL PICOTEES ... 10 seeds ot each vanety 3 6 
No. 87 — Choicest mixed CARN ATION ... ... (smaller packets is.) per packet 2 6 
No. 88 — Choicest mixed PICOTEE ... ... ... (smaller packets is.) „ 26 
No. 89 — Choicest mixed PERPETUAL CARNATION (smaller packets IS.) „ 26 
No. 90 — Choicest mixed PERPETUAL PICOTEE (smaller packets is.) ff 26 
CARTERS' FRENCH PERPETUAL CARNATION. 
We have for many years secured the entire stock of a celebrated Cultivator 
of Carnations, and the Seeds we offer are saved from his entire collection, 
comprising some of the most beautiful shades of colour that it is possible to 
imagine; and we are almost daily receiving very gratifying evidence of the 
magnificent double flowers our Carnation Seeds have produced. 
We also refer with pleasure to the following correspondence: 
“ Hardy Carnations. — A good way to get Tree Carnations for the open border is to purchase a packet of seed of 
what are known as Carters’ French Perpetual Carnations, and sow at once in pots or boxes ; sow very thinly, say 3 in. 
between each seed, and keep rather dry all the Winter. Plant out in April, and protect the plants from too much wet by 
inverting a pot or a bell-glass over them in wet weather. If planted in light, rich soil many will bloom the first year. The 
shoots should be thinned out while the weather is still warm and dry, and all grass cleared away from near the sutface of 
the ground, otherwise they will rot away at the ground-line in cold, wet weather. Layers or pipings do not seem to make 
the grand plants that seedlings do, although they are more suitable for pots. The plants should be planted at first where 
they are to remain, and will require 3 feet of ground to each one ; some will nearly fill that space.”— THE GARDEN. 
“ 1 purchased from Messrs. Carter & Co. a packet of seed of self Perpetual Carnations of a first-class French strain, and 
grew them in the open ground. These were, with four exceptions, such splendid plants, and made such a blaze of bloom, 
beginning in May and keeping on until frost stopped them, that they seemed to me to be priceless for garden decoration. 
The hundreds of blooms each plant produced was something marvellous. My advice has been taken about them by many, 
until now one sees Carnations from seed in many small gardens, and in nearly three out of every four small amateurs’ coats 
as buttonholes.”— JAMES DUNDAS, Gardeners’ Magazine, Sept. 26th, 1885. 
HANTS. I am pleased to be able to state the Carnations have turned out very satisfactory, producing very fine 
specimens of showy flowers.” — Mr. C. BLAKE. 
DORSET.— "The Carnation seeds turned out remarkably well; they bloomed most abundantly, and th« doubles 
amongst them were fully 80 per cent., several being really good florists' flowers."— Rev. E. J. POPE. 
YORKS. Mrs. COLLINGWOOD begs to say the seedlings raised from Carters’ Carnation and Picotee seeds have 
turned out very rich iu various colours, large and double.’ 
IRELAND.—" I had a beautiful bloom of Carnations last year from Carters’ Seeds. ’’—E. SYMONDS, Esq. 
No. 389— CARTERS’ FRENCH PERPETUAL CARNATION, 
In sealed packets, price per packet, 3s. 6d. 
Carters’ Mixture of Flower Seeds for Woodland Walks, Shrubberies, 
ETC. ETC. 
SOW IN MARCH, APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE. 
We offer Two Mixtures— Tall Varieties and Dwarf Varieties. Each : price, per oz. 6d. ; per lb. 5*, 
h has often been a matter of remark that, until very recently, no endeavour has been made to impart an air of cheerfulness and gaiety to shrubberies, woodland 
iralks, hedge-banks, railway embankments, natural rockeries, wildernesses etc., by sowing a mixture of various flowering annuals to bloom at successive periods 
of the year ; and a source of great enjoyment has been thereby neglected. We have therefore much pleasure in informing our correspondents that we now offer a first- 
rate well-selected mixture of hardy flowers, of every shade of colour, for the above purposes, at the very reasonable price of M. per oz., or «. her lb which we 
doubt not many will avail themselves of, as an opportunity of improving the appearance of their pleasure-grounds at a very trifling expense. 
CARTERS’ COLLECTIONS of SEEDS of BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
50 varieties, price 10s.; 25 varieties, price 5s.; 12 varieties, price 3s. 
WE WERE AWARDED TEN FIRST PRIZE MEDALS, CEYLON, 1885. 
