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THB GARDENING WORLD. 
January n, 1908. 
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR 1908. 
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Flowers & Vegetables 
WORTH GROWING, 
Being the Selections of the Largest Seed Growers, Market 
Gardeners, and the most celebrated Professional Gardeners 
and Amateurs in the Kingdom. They also contain very 
useful cultural instructions. 
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No flowers give so much cut bloom at so little cost and 
trouble it' treated as iustructions sent with each collection. 
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The number of seeds in these packets varies ; the quantities 
are stated in black figures after each name : 
Agnes Eckford (15) soft blush pink, 3d.; Earl Cromer 
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dark blue, 4d. : Miss Millie Maslin (25) rich crimson. 4d. : 
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(20) new primrose, 4d. ; Nora Unwin (20) white, 4d. ; 
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ros *. 6d.: Queen of Spain (20) salmon-pink, 4d. ; White 
Countess 00) syn. or improved Etta Dyke, the newest, best, 
and largest wavy white, 6d. 
Collections Nos. 3 and 4, 5s. 
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of 25 seeds, Is. each, or 6 packets for 5s. 
Special Price for the four collections, 7s. 
Carnation 
MRS. H. BURNETT. 
Although the above is evidently a close 
relation of the race known as the Ameri¬ 
can Carnation, it 
is, 
nevertheless, of 
British origin, being one of the few that 
have so far been raised in this country 
and approved by the British public. It 
is, moreover, one of the finest, and ap¬ 
peals to us both by its size, beautiful 
colour, and fragrance. The colour may 
best be described as a soft salmon-pink, 
and by comparison with Enchantress, the 
salmon shade is well brought out, so that 
there can be no confusion between the 
It may not always grow so large as 
\ wo. 
Enchantress, but we think it quite large 
enough either for cut flower purposes or 
for greenhouse decoration as a pot plant. 
It is of very easy cultivation and grows 
quickly. It also comes into bloom early 
in the autumn, thougn at that time the 
stalk is rather short for some kinds of de¬ 
corative work in the cut state, but later on 
in the autumn the stalk lengthens out and 
the variety is then fit for any purpose, 
being one of the choicest. It has been 
awarded several certificates, and has 
taken first prizes as the best pink. The 
fringes at the edges of the petals are very 
shallow, so that it tends towards the 
European type of tree Carnation in that 
respect. Our photograph was taken in 
the group put up by Messrs. Hugh Low 
and Co., Bush Hill Park, Middlesex, at 
the Winter Flowering Carnation Society’s 
show in December last. This variety may 
be stopped up to the end of August. The 
blooms open so freely that 50 degs. may 
be regarded as an average night tempera¬ 
ture. 
MR SVOEN HAM’S SEEDS AND BULBS 
have been represented and gained as 
*r*any First Prizes at London. Birmingham, 
Cardiff, Preston, Edinburgh, Newcastle 
on-Tyne, Plymouth, Hanley, Shrewsbury, 
Taunton, Wolverhampton. &c., &c., for the 
past twelve years as any firm in England. 
Carnation Mrs. H. Burnett. 
[.Maclaren and Sons. 
