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CARTERS’ SELECT ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHOICE FLOWERS. 
Carters’ Newest and most Brilliant Godetias. 
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GODETIA— LADY SATIN ROSE. 
First Class Certificate, Royal Horticultural Society. 
No. 587. In sealed packets, price Is. and 2s. 6d. per packet. 
Culture. — May be sown in seed pans and transplanted to a good, 
light, rich soil, with plenty of room, when a splendid show may be 
expected j or may be sown thinly where intended to bloom. Good soil 
and plenty of fresh air and space to develop are necessary to complete 
success. 
Godetias have sometimes been known as annual CEnotheras, and for 
many years were among the most prominent Californian Annuals of the 
last generation, but the care and culture that has been bestowed upon 
them have produced some most marvellous varieties, far exceeding in size 
of blossom and brilliance of colouring the older kinds, excellent though 
they were. The appended selection contains the most approved sorts of 
the present day. Perhaps there is no class of flower producing more 
abundant blossom. The habit of the species is excellent, and the glossy 
silky texture of the petals is worthy of close inspection. The glossy 
beauty ofGodetia Lady Satin Rose and White Pearl is indeed remarkable. 
It is also to be noticed that the Godetia makes an excellent cut flower, a 
spike of half-opened buds continue to develop for a long time, if fresh 
supplies of water be given daily. 
No, Price per packet. — s. d. s. d. 
587 LADY SATIN ROSE. — Dark satiny rose ; the 
handsomest Annual of recent introduction ... 10 26 
582 DUCHESS OF ALBANY. — Pure silvery white — 10 
586 LADY ALBEMARLE. — Showy flower, large 
heads of blossom ; colour crimson rose ... ... - 6 10 
589 PRINCESS OF WALES. — Dark crimson rose ; 
beautiful ... ... — 10 
593 WHITE PEARL. — Clear pure white; translucent 10 2 6 
591 SPOTTED CARPET, — Beautiful spotted variety 
of very dwarf habit, profuse bloomer ... 10 2 6 
580 GODETIA, finest mixed, all colours 10 2 6 
Carters’ Prize Show and Fancy Hollyhock. 
THE CULTIVATION OF THE 
HOLLYHOCK AS AN ANNUAL. 
Now that the Hollyhock has taken a prominent position at 
most of our leading Flower Shows, we think a few hints on its 
cultivation will be useful to amateurs, especially as there appears 
to be a misapprehension as to the time it takes to produce 
bloom ; many persons thinking that the operation takes two 
■years, whereas flowers can be obtained in five months. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS. — Any one possessing an 
ordinary garden frame can raise the plants from seeds by 
preparing a slight hot-bed for bottom-heat in February or 
March. The seed should then be sown on the bed on good 
loamy soil. 
When in rough leaf, the young plants should be pricked 
out 3 or 4 inches apart in a cool frame, and be transferred to 
their permanent places, in ground very highly manured, early in 
April. 
If the weather be cold after planting out, pots should be 
placed over them at night, to be removed on the following 
morning, and repeated for three or four weeks if the nights 
are cold. 
If these simple directions be attended to, the result will be 
found to well repay the trouble, fine spikes in the following 
August and September will be ensured, and the disease to 
which Hollyhocks have been considered so susceptible will be 
defied. 
s. d. 
No. 54 12 choice varieties, Show Hollyhock, 
separate ... 6 0 
,.55 6 „ „ „ „ I, 3 6 
„ 88 6 choice varieties, Fancy Hollyhock, 
separate 3 6 
Price per packet — s. d. s. J. 
„ 653 Show Hollyhock, choice mixed I 0 & 2 6 
„ 654 Fancy Hollyhock, „ „ I 0 & 2 6 
Photograph taken at our 1 rial Grounds , Mortlake. 
CARTERS', 237, 238. & 97, HIGH HOLBORN. LONDON.— 1898. 
