March, 1906 
HENDERSON’S GIANT 
AMERICAN HOMES 
AND GARDENS 203 
INVINCIBLE ASTERS. 
HE latest and highest achievements in China Asters, a 
race in every way. The plants are of very healthy, 
branching growth, about two feet high, producing, on lon 
stems, massive, peony-formed flowers of perfect form and faultles 
outline, and exceedingly double to the very centre. The flowers are 
the most beautifully formed of all large Asters, and of splendid 
substance, lasting long in perfection. These Asters are wonderfully 
prolific and continuous bloomers during the summer; grown 
masses in garden borders, or different colors grouped in beds thei 
decorative effect is unapproachable. When well grown the flowers 
of Henderson’s Invincible Asters average 3% inches across; 4-inch 
flowers are quite common, and if grown especially for cut flowers, 
the side branches pruned, allowing a plant to carry not over 8 or 10 
flowers, one flower to a stem, their size will then be enormous, 
measuring 4% and 5 inches across. These magnificent blossoms 
being eracefully poised on strong, well-leaved stems 15 to 18 inches 
long, resemble good-sized C hrysanthemums, and are 
cut flowers for vases and home decoration. 
uperio1 
robust 
unsurpassed as 
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PRICE OF HENDERSON’S INVINCIBLE ASTER SEED: 
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seen, we will send each packet of the seed ordered enclosed in a coupon 
envelope, one of which, when emptied and returned will be accepted 
as a 15c. cash payment on every dollar’s worth purchased from our 
Catalogue. 
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HENDERSON’S 1906 CATALOGUE 
““EVERYTHING FOR THE CARDEN,” 
188 pages, beautifully illustrated from photographs, 
with much gardeniug information, 
seeds, plants, bulbs and garden 
35 and 37 CORTLANDT ST.. NEW YORK. 
8 colored and 6 duotone plates, 
besides descriptions of everything that is best in 
accessories. 
DIANTHUS 
Perpetual Snow 
AX NEW, hardy Pink 
that excels all 
others. It forms a dense 
tuft of attractive, grass- 
like, glaucous, green 
leaves, from which are 
constantly thrown up, 
on slender, wiry stems, 
large, fringed, pure 
white flowers—richly 
clove-scented—from early spring until the ground freezes. If placed 
one foot apart the plants quickly cover the ground, and the flowers 
are produced in such great numbers as to present, at times, the ap- 
pearance of enveloping the plants in a white blanket. The flowers 
closely resemble fine, white Carnations, and are as sweetly fragrant. 
The plants are absolutely hardy, and from a few square feet devoted 
to them a lovely bouquet may be gathered every day for fully six 
months. Perpetual Snow is but one of a thousand varieties of beau- 
tiful flowers which are described and priced in my catalogue of Hardy 
Perennial Plants. Nothing for the cost will add so much cheer to the 
home grounds and make them attractive and interesting, from early 
spring until late in the fall, as Hardy Perennials; yielding, as they do, 
a wealth of flowers of an almost endless variety of form and color, not 
only during the year planted, but for many years—from a single 
planting. They supply flowers to brighten and embellish the dining 
table, the parlor and the sick-room, as well as the garden and lawn. 
Everybody should have them. They flourish in almost every soil, 
need but little care, and require no special knowledge to succeed 
with them. 
@ My catalogue of Hardy Perennial Plants is a profusely illustrated 
and beautifully printed book of fifty pages. Its descriptions are 
accurate, and it is replete with information of value to all who 
are interested in flowers. Mailed free for the asking. 
J. T. LOVETT, Little Silver, New Jersey 
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