JOHN N. MAY’S WHOLESALE TRADE LIST. 
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New Carnations for 1905 
CARDINAL (E. G. Hill & Co.). The best big-Ilowei'ed, general purpose scar¬ 
let carnation now before tbe trade. It is very ea.sy to grow and is in 
perfect health; has fine flowers, good calyx and wonderful texture. Its 
keeping dualities are of the very best. 
Price, $12.00 per 100, .$100.00 per 1000. 
FIANCEE (Chicago Carnation Company). Clear pink; a lively, bright, pleas¬ 
ing color, a shade not approached by any known variety of carnation at 
the present time. Flowers are extremely large, 3 to 3% inches. One of 
the earliest and freest bloomers; continues throughout the entire season, 
without any cessation. 
Price, $12,00 per 100, $100.00 per 1000. 
PHYLLIS (AV. N. Rudd). True Daybreak color, with extra good stem 18 to 
24 inches. A fine, vigorous growei’ and free-blooming; the flower averages 
tillee inches in diameter and, although not d^ite as lai'ge as Enchantress, 
is a better keeper. Expuisite color and very fragrant. Certificate wher¬ 
ever exhibited. See Illustration^ fage 12 . 
Price, $12.00 per 100, $100 per 1000. 
New Carnations of 1904 
THE BRIDE. The flowers average 3 to 31/2 inches in diameter, of ideal form, 
and the purest white, borne on good stout stems, which average 14 to 16 
inches long after the plants get well established; a free and continuous 
producer, and a healthy, clean grower, not subject to disease in any form. 
Another season’s trial of this fine variety proves it to be the money¬ 
making white Carnation for the florist. Fine stock now ready. 
See illustration on back cover tae-e 
Price; $6.00 per 100, $50.00 per 1000. 
INDIANAPOLIS. Color very bright shade of clear pink; size 3 to 3% inches, 
round and high built; calyx perfect; stem long and strong, holding up the 
bloom gracefully. Habit of plant ideal. 
Price, $6.00 per 100, $50.00 per 1000. 
MRS. M. A. PATTEN. Among variegated carnations this holds the same 
relative position as Enchantress and Mrs. Dawson in their respective 
colors. Ground color white, striped and jienciled with a bright shade of 
pink; flowers, averaging 3 to 3Va inches, borne on long, stiff stems; 
vejy fragrant. ITabit and constitution ideal. 
Price, $6.00 per 100; $50.00 per 1000. 
WHITE LAWSON. Pure white in color; in all other respects similar to 
Mrs. T. AV. Dawson. 
Price, $0.00 per 100, $50.00 per 1000. 
