October, 1910 



T H E G A R D E N INI A G A Z I N E 



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HENDERSON S SUPERIOR BULBS 



■ FOR FALL .yss^i^ PL ANTING 



If you want Beautiful Bulbous Flowers 



In your house this winter, or 

 in your garden next Spring 



You must plant the bulbs this fall! 



Flowering Bulbs are very popular with flower-loving 

 people. There is a peculiar charm and interest in 

 growing them. They produce flowers of remarkable 

 beauty unsurpassed by any other class of plants 

 in the floral kingdom and many are delightfully 

 fragrant. In form, size and colorings there is 

 endless variety, and besides bulbs are adaptable 

 for so many purposes; many of them flower 

 equally well grown either in the garden or 

 house, and not the least among the merits of 

 Bulbs are their ease of culture, the certainty 

 and perfection with which their flowers are 

 produced, and the remarkably short time 

 required to bring them into bloom under 

 artificial conditions; but 



THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE 

 IN THE QUALITY OF BULBS ! 



Superior bulbs — the pick of the crops — 

 are largely consumed by critical European 

 buyers, the "seconds" and "substitutes" 

 being too often palmed off on less critical 

 American dealers.' We insist — with a 

 penalty attached — on being supplied 

 with the same high grade — true to name 

 varieties — that the English, Germans, 

 and Russians get, and we see that we get 

 this superior grade by personally con- 

 ducted trials. Henderson's Superior Bulbs 

 therefore cost a little more than inferior 

 grades, but our customers appreciate the 

 difference. 



HENDERSON'S BULB DEPARTMENT 



It is conceded handles the largest quantities, 

 the highest quality and the greatest variety 

 of Flower Bulbs of any one firm in the world. 

 America, Great Britain, Italy, France, Holland, 

 Japan, China, Asia Minor, Bermuda, etc., yield 

 up to us annually millions of their bulbous flora 

 treasures. 



HENDERSON'S BULB CULTURE 



68 pages. Profusely illustrated. Price, postpaid, 50c. 



This newly revised and enlarged edition gives the up-to-date ^ 

 methods of treatment for all kinds of Hardy and Tender Winter, 

 Spring, Summer and Autumn Flowering Bulbs, Tubers, Corms, etc 



— Bulbs for Gardens and Lawns — Design Bedding — Mixed Borders 

 Naturalizing— Situations, Soils and Preparation — Time and Depth to 

 Plant — Treatment after Flowering — Bulbs for the House and Greenhouse 



— Forcing — Flowering Bulbs in Glasses of Water, etc. — Keeping Dormant 

 Bulbs — Hints on Buying and Selecting for Different Purposes, etc. 



Henderson's Autumn Catalogue 



Bulbs, Plants and Seeds 

 For Autumn Planting 



Revolutionizes Bulb Offerings in America 



Most of us have been deprived of the better varieties 



of Flower Bulbs on account of their high price. 



The splendid, strong constitutioned, newer sorts 



do cost a little more than decadent old kinds, 



and heretofore to their greater value 25% ad 



valorum duty has been exacted by the U. S. 



Customs, thus making the selling price almost 



prohibitive. The present specific duty — so 



much per 1,000, regardless of high or low 



foreign cost — brings the preferred choice 



varieties down so that "the best" may now 



be enjoyed in America. Taking advantage 



of these improved conditions, we have 



excluded from our importations many 



obsolete varieties and added their more 



beautiful and robust successors. For 



instance, our important revisions include: 



47 best standard Hyacinths and 26 newer varieties 

 68 " " Early Tulips " 32 " 



44 " " Narcissus "27 " 



Among the aristocrats of tulipdom — the 



Giant Darwins, Cottagers, Rembrandts, 

 etc. — we include more than 100 of the 

 finest new varieties. In Japan and Ger- 

 man Iris we offer an entire new series of 

 the improved large flowering sorts. In 

 Peonies we have 80 of the world's best 

 modern kinds, revelations of beauty to 

 those who only know the old kinds; these 

 we offer in one, two and three year old 

 roots so that normal, characteristic floweis 

 may be expected the first season. We also 

 have the new hybrid Freesias that are 

 creating such a sensation in the European 

 floral world, the Giant white, the yellow, 

 lavender and pink varieties. We also offer 

 the exquisite new Butterfly Cyclamens, 

 Fortin's Giant Lily of the Valley, the African 

 white Watsonia and a host of other good new 

 things all of which are described and photo- 

 graphically illustrated in 



HENDERSON'S AUTUMN CATALOGUE 



A handsome book of 72 pages — which we mail free 



to all who ask for it, and in addition — to aid those not 



familiar with bulbs, their success and ours being mutual 



— we will include our recently revised book "Henderson's 



Bulb Culture" (described in opposite column) provided " The 



Garden Magazine" is mentioned. 



PETER HENDERSON fiiCo 



35 £ 37 CORTLANDTST. 



NEW YORK. 



