HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR BULBS 



FOR FALL 1912 PLANTING 



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From Holland, Great Britain, France, Italy, Asia, Japan, etc. 





The greatest selection of varieties and 



Good old standards and magnificent 



Crocus, Lilies^ Iris, Peonies, and a 



to the highest quality imported into America. 



;Mf J,^^#^' ? novelties. Hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils, 

 *-' host of other Bulbous Beauties 



If You Want Beautiful 

 Bulbous Flowers 



In your house this winter, or 

 in your garden next Spring 



You must plant the bulbs this fall! 



TPHERE is a peculiar charm and in- 

 terest in growing Bulbs. 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 is 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 con- 

 ditions; but 



THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE 

 IN THE QUALITY OF BULBS! 



gUPERIOR 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 En- 

 glish, Germans and Russians get, and we 

 see that we get this superior grade by 

 personally conducted trials. 



Henderson's Superior Bulbs 



therefore cost a little more than inferior 

 grades, but our customers appreciate 

 the difference. 



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Henderson's 

 Autumn Catalogue 



Bulbs, Plants and Seeds 

 For Autumn Planting 



Revolutionizes Bulb Offerings in America 



A/IOST 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 valorem duty has been 

 exacted by the U. S. Customs, thus 

 making the selling price almost prohibi- 

 tive. 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: 



35 New Hyacinths, 38 New Early Tulips, 

 22 New Daffodils 



and a host of grand new things among 

 the aristocrats of tulipdom — the Giant 

 Darwins, Cottagers, Rembrandts, etc. 

 In Japan and German Iris we offer an 

 entire new series of the improved large 

 flowering sorts. In Peonies we have 

 40 of the World's best modern kinds, 

 perfect revelations of beauty. We have 

 the new hybrid pink and other colored 

 Freesias; also 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 des- 

 cribed and photographically illustrated in 



Catalogue of Bulbs 



Plants, Seeds and Seasonable 

 It is the 



Requisites mailed Free to those mentioning The Garden Magazine 



most beautiful and instructive Fall Catalogue published 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., 



35 and 37 Cortlandt Street 

 NEW YORK 



