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CARTERS CHALLENGER BALSAM. Per packet — s. d. 
A Superb Mixture. Matchless in form, substance, size, and colours ... is. & 16 
Carters Rose Queen. This beautiful variety produces enormous spikes of large 
double flowers of a delicate rose colour ; excellent habit ; very striking ... is. & 1 6 
12 superb selected colours. Separate 36 
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Balsam, Camellia-flowered 1 0 
Balsam, Double mixed. For pots or borders ... ... ... .. ... ... 6d. & I o 
Units on Culture . — .Balsams may be sown from the beginning to the middle of April in pans or on a slight hot bed, in a light 
rich loam compost, covering the seed about half an inch, keeping the soil moist, but not wet. When the plants have formed the 
second pair of leaves they may be transplanted, four round the edge of a 6-inch pot, and gradually hardened off for transplanting out 
of doors ; or they may be planted in a cold pit, 4 inches apart, as near the glass as possible, giving more air as the season advances 
until June, when they may be turned into the open borders, the warmest situations being the most suitable. If for pot culture, they 
must be divided and transplanted into single pots, once or twice into larger pots, picking off the flowers in the earlier stages of growth 
to give greater vigour. 
