ELLIS BBOTHEBS’ CATALOGUE 
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and veins. The under side, however, is a bright purplish wine color. This acquisi- 
tion is already in great favor. It is one of the most brilliant flowering plants known, 
specimens having been shown measuring thirty inches across, and carrying more 
than three hundred flowers open at one time. These are of good size, and of a bright 
carmine red. A fall and winter bloomer. (See cut.) Price 15 dls. 
CARNATIONS. 
A few years since it was said we had reached the limit in improving the Carna- 
tions. Butcomparethe best of ten years ago with the magnificent “Mrs. Lawson,” the 
exquisite “ Marquis” and “ Olympia,” the grand white, “ Flora Hill,” or in fact with any 
in our list, and it will be evident that there has been wonderful strides made in the size, 
form and color of this, the so-called divine flower. We have one of the finest and 
most select collections in New England, and the equal of any in the country. 
