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Ip calling attention to our Double 
Fringed Petunias, we feel a par- 
donable pride in alluding to our 
successful efforts, extending over a 
number of years, towards improving 
this very useful and beautiful race of 
plants. To none which we cultivate do 
we devote more care and labor, employ- 
ing only the most skillful hands, and 
hybridizing the tens of thousands of 
flowers by hand, a slow and expensive process, 
but justified by the results. When it is consid- 
ered that the varieties offered were selected 
from over a thousand plants, and that they, in 
turn, are a selection from over ten thousand 
seedlings, some estimate can be formed of the scrupulous 
and watchful care we exercise in selecting. They are of the 
easiest culture, growing in any soil which will maintain pliant 
life, and producing the most showy flowers in wonderful 
profusion. The flowers are very useful for table decoration, laid on 
a flat dish and garnished with their own foliage. 
MRS F SANDER For the first time we are enabled to 
_aee Orr e ees: offer a pure pink Double Fringed Petu- 
nia. At rare intervals we have had varieties of a lavender pink 
shade, but this is the equal in color of the finest Carnations. 
MR S JEFFREY S (The Carnation Petunia.) Distinet from 
—aa orn tO §6allothers. Free growing and branching, 
producing numbers of perfectly double, pure white flowers about 2 
* inches across, not fringed. For florists’ summer flowers as a ground- 
work for designs it will be invaluable. 
SEA FOAM The greatest achievement of the hybridizer in Double 
=_—_snN eee: +Petunias is to produce a fine double fringed variety of 
a pure white; this we have occasionally succeeded in doing, but never 
ed one that for purity of color, form, size and vigor of growth was the 
ak The variety on the upper right-hand corner of the engraving. Pearly 
x2 SUNRISE. white, suffused with a faint flush and deepening to rosy pink, with here 
Bs and there a petal blotched with carmine pink. 
Ei ws VOLUNTEER This fine Double Petunia is bold and handsome in flower and 
SVMEVIEDS': habit. The color isarich rosy purple changing to violet, having 
Ce ee epee UNAS: a beautiful lustre; the petals are marked with pearly white. 
A grand variety, deeply fringed, large and very dou- A large, solidly built flower, without fringe, and 
MANILA, ble, pure miiitton roe diate epiaahed with carmine. SAN JUAN, one of the most attractive in the collection. 
Color pearly white, liberally splashed with violet crimson. 
SANTIAGO An extra large, fine, double fringed variety, deep : 
—ee eS =soviolet crimson with a velvety finish and a silvery MBRRIMAG One of the most unique and beautiful in the 
sheen on the back—the silver lining to the cloud. * list. The color is light lavender pink with 
HELEN GOU AD) Another fine variety, and one of the most white edges, veined and marbled with brownish crimson. 
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fringed, very double, clear white with a beautiful shade of carmine Price for any of the above Double Petunias, 20c. each, $2.00 per 
roge in the centre, changing to evening purple. doz.; set of 10 distinct sorts for $1.75. 
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DOUBLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. fi2is sess: | SINGLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. j.o0cceddtogown 
seed which produced the above varieties, but not all of them are | saving, and are the same strain as those we use in our hybridizing 
certain to be double. Such of them as come single will, however, | to obtain double flowers. Many of them will be finely fringed, and 
be certain to be large and brilliantly colored. most of them are sure to be highly colored varieties. 
Price, 15c. each, $1.50 per doz., $8.00 per 100. Price, 10c. each, $1.00 per doz., $6.00 per 100. 
SEEDS OF HENDERSON'S SUPERB DOUBLE FRINGED PETUNIAS. 
As an illustration of the care necessary to produce this seed, we state that it costs us in labor alone $200.00 PER OUNCE, or 
about eleven times its weight in gold. We have a limited quantity of this seed for sale, and offer it at 50c. per packet. 
