FLORAL NOVELTIES FOR 1896 
NEW SWEET PEAS (Eckford’s). 
CROWN JEWEL. Pale standard, tinted and veined with violet 
rose, the wings creamy, slightly tinted with rose, a most profuse 
bloomer, the rows, the past season, having been literally bedecked 
with bloom from bottom to top. In sealed packets 2s. 6d. 
ALICE ECKFORD. Rich cream tinted cerise standards, white 
wings, a relined beautiful Mower, the most chaste variety ever 
offered. First Class Certificate, Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, 
1891. In sealed packets 2s. 6d. 
COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN. White, margined with 
pale pink, finely formed standards, a distinct charming flower, 
very lovely. In sealed packets 2s. 6d. 
CAPTIVATION. Rosy purple self, fiuely expanded, shell- 
shapod standard, a charming novelty, quite distinct and beautiful. 
In sealed packets 2s. 6d. 
LITTLE DORRIT. Carmine, tinted pink, standard of finest 
form, large white wings, the colours beautifully harmonised, a 
superbly lovely variety. In sealed packets 2s. 6d. 
MIKADO. Deep orange cerise ground, striped white, of exquisite 
form and good size, a very pleasing and desirablo novelty. 
In sealed packets 2s. fid. 
MIGNONETTE, 
GOLDEN MACHET. 
All the excellencies peculiar to the .iustly popular Machet Mignon- 
ette, recognised by every raiser ns the best for forcing and pot 
culture, are possessed also by this new variety. The plants are of 
strong compact habit, with the large crinkled leaves peculiar to 
the Machet, and bear long massive spikes crowded with golden 
yellow blossoms. This novelty is as valuable as it is distinct 
and cannot fail to attain a great popularity. l’er packet Is. 
MIGNONETTE, 
GIANT MACHET. 
This fine variety is a great improvement on the well-known and 
popular Machet, sent out some few years ago. The plants 
are of the same vigorous compact habit of growth, but 
slightly taller, whilst the very large spikes of finely-scented 
flowers are much superior to those of the old variety. The 
seed we offer has been carefully saved from pot plants only, 
and may bo depended on for good results. 
Per packet (id. and Is. 
TECOMA SMITHI. 
One of the finest seed novelties yet introduced, and an exceedingly beautiful addition to our Autumn and early Winter flowering 
greenhouse plants. The handsome pinnate leaves, surmounted by the large terminal corymbiform heads of orange- coloured blossoms 
are most charming and effective. The seed may he sown at any time. II* is as easily managed as a Chrysanthemum, the flowers 
lasting in perfection upwards of a mouth. The individual flowers are about two inches long, tubular, of a rich lemon and dark orange 
combined, the mouth of the tube being about one inch in diameter. I^r packet 2s. Gd. 
CARNATION, “URIAH PIKE.” 
We have secured a supply of seed saved from this grand crimson perpetual flowering Carnation, which is thus described: — This is 
undoubtedly the grandest crimson Carnation ever offered, at the same time the most decided acquisition to the Tree or Perpetual 
flowering class that has ever been raised ; an ideal Carnation, faultless in form and colour. It is possessed of an extremely robust and 
vigorous constitution such as no other Perpetual Flowering Carnation can boast, and no collection will, in future, be complete without it. 
In point of colour this noble Carnation reigns supreme, being a veritable glowing crimson velvet self and in this respect absolutely 
unique. The flowers which are produced abundantly and continuously for a long period, are perfect in form, and emit a powerful clove 
fragrance; and measure 2| inches to 3 inches across, the petals forming a complete rosette. It is consequently a model “button-hole” 
flower, and High-Class Florists regard it as indispensable. Thd calyx is faultless, always remaining intact. 
l’er packet Is. (id. and 2s. 6d. 
With reference to New Sweet Pea, Cupid, quoted on opposite page, the Rev. W. T. Hutchins, the eminent Sweet Pea 
specialist, says of it : " A novelty it certainly is. It is the only genuine dwarf Sweet Pea, and has sported so at one jump. 
By some freak of nature it has lost the habits of a vine, and makes a low tuft of short branches which hug the ground, showing no 
tendency either to trail or climb. But it has not lost the free-blooming habit, and thus its blossoms, which are uniformly the 
purest possible white, form a low, crowded mass that nearly hide the foliage.” 
WALLFLOWER, RUBY GEM. 
This grand Novelty is certainly the most brilliant and effective 
variety of Single Wallflower hitherto sent out. The colour 
is a beautiful clear shade of ruby violet, with a bluish 
satin-like sheen (quite unlike the old purple Wallflower, 
which is much more dark and dull in colour), and when 
seen in a mass the effect produced is very striking. It has 
the habit of the ordinary dark lllood Wallflower, of medium 
height, and the flowers are extra large and of good substance. 
Per packet Is. 
