. Park's floral guide for 1899. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. Lovely New Hybrid Carnations. Dianthus caryophyllus, early-blooming, packet 3 cts., 4 packets 10 cts. At every home there should be a bed of Carnations in the garden, and a few pots of them in the window. No flower is more easily grown, and none will yield greater pleasure in beauty and fragrance for the care given. The Improved Hybrid Carnations I offer are a great advance upon the old-fash- ioned sorts. The plants are vigorous in growth, and bloom early and continuously, whil
. Park's floral guide for 1899. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. Lovely New Hybrid Carnations. Dianthus caryophyllus, early-blooming, packet 3 cts., 4 packets 10 cts. At every home there should be a bed of Carnations in the garden, and a few pots of them in the window. No flower is more easily grown, and none will yield greater pleasure in beauty and fragrance for the care given. The Improved Hybrid Carnations I offer are a great advance upon the old-fash- ioned sorts. The plants are vigorous in growth, and bloom early and continuously, while the flowers are very large, double, and deliciously scented. By sowing the seeds early in spring many of the plants will bloom the first season, and being hardy they will bloom without further care for many years. If you order but a dozen packets of flower seeds you should include the Hybrid Car- nations. I can supply the following: Margaret Improved, semi-dwarf plants which begin to bloom about five or six months after the seeds are sown; flowers very large and fragrant, and of many rich'colors; about 75 percent, of the seeds will produce double-flowering plants; one of the finest Carnations; choice mixed, per 5 Earliest French Chabaud, a new class combining the beauty of ths Florists' Carnation with the earliness of the Margaret class; very double, fra- grant, and showing many fine colors 5 Rivieri Market, the Guillaud Carnation, a beautiful perpetnal Carnation, blooming early and pro- ducing a large percentage of double flowers, many have yellow tints; per packet 10 New Large-flowered Hybrid Border Carnation, very double, rich and varied in color, fragrant, hardy; mixed colors 5 Early Margaret Giant, a new large-flowered strain; very fine, mixed 10 Early-flowering Dwarf Vienna, pure white, very fine double flowers; hardy; fine for cemetery or beds 5 Complete mixture of all these early-flowering hybrid Carnations, machine packed, 4 packets for 10 cents, per
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