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MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK, NEW YORK.
A great favorite because it blooms so quick after sowing the
seed; four months. Flowers large, colors are bright and varied,
with that delicious, refreshing clove fragrance that
makes all Carnations so much loved. Colors are dazzling red,
soft pink, white, mottled and variegated. Carnations
are now one of the most sought for flowers in the New York
market, and the seed of this variety will produce flowers in a
short time as fine as many grown in the Green Houses, and at very
much less cost. The plants succeed alike in the open garden
or in pots. Seeds sown early in the year will give an abundance
of flowers in July. Sown in May and kept pinched back, you
will have fine flowers late in the fall until checked by hard
frosts. Sown in the autumn, the flowers will be in full bloom
early in the spring. Thus by planting at different seasons, flow-
ers can be had all the year around.
Pkt., finest quality, 100 seeds, 5c.
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Like its parent, the Margaret, this Carnation blooms in
four months from sowing, but is as much in advance of
the type as the new French Cannas are ahead of the old "Indian
Shot." The flowers are larger, more double and the variety of
colors is infinitely greater. The plants grow about 15 inches
high, flowers always erect. If taken up in the Fall the plants
bloom all winter. Pkt., 100 seeds, 8c, 4 pkts. for 25c.