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CARTERS’ SELECT ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHOICE FLOWERS, 
Delphinium (Perennial) 
Larkspur. 
Culture if sown in frames 
early in the Spring some of them will 
bloom the first Season, but to ensure 
perfect success we would counsel a 
sowing in frames in the Summer and 
early Autumn, transplanting thence to 
protected store beds, and from thence 
in the Spring to the places where they 
are intended to remain ; they may also 
be cultivated with success in pots of a 
good compost of loam, leaf mould, and 
a little peat. We recommend these 
sorts to any lover of perennials with the 
greatest confidence. 
Delphinium (Annual) 
Larkspur. 
Photographed from ■ Nature and Copyrighted by J. C. <t‘ Co. 
Dahlia, Carters’ Choice Selected. 
GRAND CROSS FERTILISED STRAIN. 
Culture. —Sow in Spring in good soil in well-drained pans or pots, 
prick off singly in pots as the seedlings progress, harden off gradually, and 
plant out when night frosts are no longer to be feared. The Dahlia delights 
in a rich, deep, friable soil. The Double Dahlia (Georgiana variabilis Jl. pi. ) 
was for half a century a leading florists’ flower, and, indeed, no large garden 
is now complete without it. The perfect symmetry of form and variety of 
colour which have been attained will always preserve them from being neglected 
for any length of time. However, fashion changes, the old order gives way 
to the new, and the Single Varieties a few years since evoked a species 
of mania which has not yet subsided, and it must be admitted the graceful shape 
and brilliant colours of the Single kinds are deserving of the warmest admiration. 
Now, yet another kind heads the race, the so-called Cactus Dahlia, of which 
our illustration gives the type ; these merit cultivation from their singularity of 
form, and have not yet reached their zenith. Our strain has been specially 
hybridised and fertilised with various species, and should produce new kinds. 
No. Pc packet — s. d. 
463 DAHLIA, CHOICE CACTUS VARIETIES Is. 6d. & 2 6 
460 DAHLIA, CHOICEST SINGLE VARIETIES Is., Is. 6d. & 2 6 
431 DAHLIA, BOUQUET OR LILLIPUTIAN VARIETIES Is. & 2 6 
462 DAHLIA, PRIZE SHOW VARIETIES Is. & 2 6 
Photographed from Nature and Copyrighted by .7. C Co. 
Perennial 
Larkspur. 
No. Per packet. — s. d. 
485 DELPHINIUM, NEW 
HYBRIDS. Superb mix- 
ture, including Wedding 
Bells Is. & 2 6 
474 DELPHINIUM CARDI- 
NALE. — Brilliant scarlet, 
branching habit ... Is. & 2 6 
482 DELPHINIUM NUDI- 
CAULE. — Dwarf, scarlet ; 
height about 6 ins. Is. & 2 6 
483 DELPHINIUM SUL- 
PHUREUM.— Great nov- 
elty and beauty ; sulphur 
yellow Is. & 2 6 
Annual Larkspur. 
No. s. d. 
57 6 finest selected varieties, 
Branching 1 6 
61 to finest selected varieties, 
Dwarf Stock-Flowered 2 6 
62 6 finest selected varieties, 
Tall Stock-Flowered 1 6 
63 6 finest selected varieties, 
New Emperor 1 6 
688 Branching, choice 
mixed ... 0 6 
689 Dwarf German, choice 
mixed 0 3 
690 Dwarf Stock-flowered, 
choice mixed 0 6 
691 Emperor, choice mixed 0 6 
CARTERS'. 
Photographed from Nature and Copyrighted by ./. C. & Co 
CARTERS’ “CACTUS" DAHLIA. 
237, 238. & 97. HIGH HOLBORN. LONDON. -1898. 
