SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
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Mayflower Premiums for 1898 
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE REDUCED TO 25 CTS. PER YEAR, 
And a Grand Premium of Gr eat Be auiy and Va lue Gi ven Free to Each Subscriber. 
'The Most Charming- Horticultural Magazine of the World, Many Pages and 1 or 2 Colored Plate® 
Each Month, at only 25c. per Year in Clubs of 5 or More, Including Premium. 
Single Subscription, 50 cts. per Year With Premium; 
25 cts. per Year Without Premium. 
THE GREATEST OFFER YET, 
Get Up a Clufi—Elegant Glut Premiums. 
OUR MAGNIFICENT PREMIUMS. 
We offer to our subscribers this year two extra line pre¬ 
miums. No. 1 consists of 5 great Novelties, and is given ab¬ 
solutely free to all who subscribe. No. 2 consists of 7 rare 
and beautiful flowering bulbs and is given when 5 or 10 
cents is sent to pay postage and packing as stated below*. 
PREMIUM NO. I. 
FIVE GREAT NOVELTIES FREE. 
Everyone who subscribes for Thk Mayflower will re- 
ceive immediately and absolutely free of al 1 cost, by mail, 
postpaid, the following five extraordinary floral novelties, 
one packet of each. These novelties are of the highest order, 
and would cost, were one to purchase them, three or four 
times the price of a year’s subscription. They are as follow s; 
i pkt. new Multiflora roses, with seed of 
these new Roses, plants may be had in bloom in 60 days 
from time of sowing. They grow quickly and flowers ap¬ 
pear in large clusters, and in such quantity that a plant 
looks like a bouquet. From a packet of seed one will get 
Roses of various colors white, pink, crimson, etc.,—no two 
alike, and mostly perfectly double, and very sweet. For full 
description seepage 18; also colored sketch on cover. 
1 PKT. NEW DWARF SWEET PEA CU PIO. - This is a 
novelty of unusual importance. It is a Dwarf Sweet Pea, 
the plant growing only live inches high, yet spreading out 
and forming a solid mat of foliage and flowers one and one- 
half feet across. The blossoms are pure milk-white, very 
sweet, of largest size and great substance, and borne on 
steins four inches long, three flowers on each stem. For 
further description see colored plate in this catalogue. 
1 PKT. CHINESE LANTERN PLANT. —Most ornamen¬ 
tal window or garden plant known, and a delicious fruit. 
It grows and fruits freely in the garden during summer, or 
in pots both summer and winter. It hears continually nu¬ 
merous large, inflated husks, much the shape of Chinese 
Lanterns, at first a beautiful green color, changingto a 
yellowish hue, then to brightest scarlet. In each 44 Lan¬ 
tern ” a fruit is borne, of large size and rich ruby color, 
which iB most delicious for eating raw, or for cooking and 
preserving. No other plant so beautiful as this. 
1 PKT. ALPINE EVERBEARING BUSH STRAWBERRY 
“Plants fruit the first year from seed, and bear all the time 
both summer and fall. Each plant forms a large clump 
without runners. Fruit highly flavored, most delicious and 
beautiful, some being red while others arc milk-white. A 
superb novelty. See colored plate. 
1 TREE STRAWBERRY. This is shown on col¬ 
ored plate with the Alpine Strawberries, also fully de¬ 
scribed on page 150. It is somewhat like both the Straw¬ 
berry and Raspberry, by far the largest, handsomest and 
most prolific berry grown, a* well as the hardiest. 
It makes no difference whether you are a new subscriber 
or an old one renewing, you will get this premium without 
asking for it, in clubs or otherwise. 
PREMIUM NO. 2. 
SEVEN RARE FLOWERING BULBS. 
This premium is in addition to No. 1 . but isfjiven onlv to 
those who at the time of subscribing send Ten Cents (to pay- 
backing and postage) and ask for Premium No. in addi- 
tion to No.'L Blit m clubs of 12 or more this premium will 
be sent for only Five Cents. It is a very choice lot of ISulbs, 
worth nearly a dollar, and will help yon get up a big club- 
1 DOUBLE TUBEROUS-ROOTED BfcONIA. - A mag- 
ill flee nt flowering bulb, producing large double blossoms of 
various colors. Often the same plant will produce both 
double and single flowers. It is a real prize und alone is 
well worth the subscription price. 
, CEM. The beautiful new dwarf 
Calla, fully described on page 84. 
i RUDBECK3A, COLDEN CLOW. —Our great new hardy 
plant which is creating a .sensation all over the world. See 
full description on colored plate, 
t AMARYLLIS REGINA. — (Queen Lily.) One of the 
For ful1 description see page 112 . 
3 GLADIOLUS CHILDSL— Finest oi all Gladiolus. See 
all about it on page 15. 
The Mayflower is so good, and its Premium so valu¬ 
able, that it is a very easy matter for anyone, man, woman 
or child to get up a club of from 5 to 50 subscribers among 
their friends and neighbors. We give the club-raiser a fine 
! premium for every 5 subscribers sent us up to 100, and each 
j subscriber in the club also gets our regular premium free of 
| all cost. The club-raiser may select one of the following 
| fine Plants or Bulbs for every 5 subscribers sent ns, and 
J same will be forwarded free by mail. 
1 Rudbeckia.See colored plate. 
1 Rose, Climbing Meteor. 44 •* 
1 Lantern Plant. 44 44 
1 Giant Currant. 44 44 
1 Swainsonla.See page 26 
1 Phrynlum. 44 
1 Abutilon, Infanta Eulalia. 44 28 
1 Otahelte Orange. 44 29 
1 Ipomcea Pandurata . 44 80 
1 Ciant Snapdragon. 41 ;s 
1 Trltoma . 44 32 
1 Calla, Little Cem. 44 34 
1 Calla, Dwarf Everbloomlng. 44 35 
1 Begonia, Double. 44 38 
1 Gloxinia. 44 39 
1 Llllum Auratum. 44 41 
1 Rose, Childs’ Jewel. 44 46 
1 Water Hyacinth. 44 144 
1 Clematis Paniculuta. 44 125 
1 Clematis Davldlana. 44 125 
1 Night Blooming Cereus. 44 133 
1 Raspberry, Everbearing White. 44 148 
1 New Plum. 44 157 
1 Tree Blackberry. 44 151 
1 Dozen Mixed Gladiolus. 44 8 
SPECIAL CASH PREMIUMS, S5O0. 
In addition to the above Club Premiums we will on 
December 1, give the following to those who secure the most 
subscribers up to that time : $200 cash to the one who sends 
the most subscribers; $100 cash to the next largest; $00 cash 
to the next; $40 cash to the next; and to the next ten largest, 
$10 cash each. 
It will be necessary for each club raiser who competes for 
these cash prizes to write us some time about Decern oer 1 the 
exact number of subscribers they have sent in. This letter 
must not refer to any other subject. After comparing their 
statements with our tally we will award the premiums to 
the 14 successful ones and notify all -who compete. 
AGENTS WANTED.—SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 
^TWe want one or more permanent agents in every city* 
town and village to take subscriptions and receive renewals. 
We will consider anyone who sends us a club of five or more 
subscribers a permanent agent, if they so desire. 
The subscription price of The Mayflower. Including 
premium is only 50 cents per year for single subscription; 25 
cents per year in clubs of live or more. Price, without pre¬ 
mium, 25 cents per year. From all foreign countries, except 
Canada, one shilling (24 cents) extra must be sent to pay 
foreign postage. 
