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calling attention to the beautiful colored plate of Double Petunias opposite, we feel a pardonable pride in alluding to our 
“To none 
which we cultivate do we devote more care and labor, employing 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 as shown in the grand varieties we 
illustrate on the colored plate. When it is considered that the varieties shown 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 
|) bestowed upon them, for in the whole range of garden plants there are none that can be said to excel the Double Petunia. 
| profusion. 
) situation they find a congenial home. 
| their own foliage, or cut with long stems and placed in vases. 
we exercise in selecting. Beginning with the time we illustrated the variety “Magnet” on a colored plate up to the present, we 
have never ceased our efforts towards improvement, and the ‘‘superb collection” offered now is the crowning glory of over a 
quarter of a century’s intelligent, persistent labor. The perfection to which a race of flowers can be brought by the florist’s and 
seedsman’s skill finds a fitting illustration in these wonderful Double Petunias now offered; but they are worthy of all the ; Gare 
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are of the easiest culture, growing in any soil which will maintain plant life, and producing the most showy flowers in wonderful 
The variety of uses to which they can be put is extraordinary — baskets, vases, beds, borders —in any and every 
The flowers are very useful for table decoration, laid on a flat dish and garnished with 
A description of each seems superfluous taken with the colored 
late; in fact, it is almost impossible to accurately describe the markings, so delicately and wonderfully does a bounteous nature 
estow and blend them, but we call particular attention to the Pink variety, Mrs. F. Sander, although to many it may seem an 
Sunrise. 
The variety on the upper left-hand corner of the colored plate. 
| Pearly white, suffused with a faint flush and deepening to rosy 
| pink, with here and there a petal blotched with carmine pink; this 
| blending of color suggested the name of ‘‘Sunrise.”’ 
| hand upper corner of the colored plate. 
| other revives memories of the orb of day as he sinks in a blaze 
Price, 30c. each, $3.00 per doz. ; 
Garnet. 
In striking contrast to the above is its companion on the right- 
If one suggests Aurora “the 
2 for 50e., or 4 for $1.00. 
| of glowing crimson, or, nearer still, the subdued but rich lights of 
| the Garnet. 
Price, 30c. each, $3.00 per doz.; 2 for 50c., or 4 for $1.00. 
Sea Joan.———— 
The greatest achievement of the hybridizer in Double Petunias 
is to produce a fine double fringed variety of a pure white; this we 
| have occasionally succeeded in doing, but never have we obtained 
| Special Offer. 
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one that for purity of color, form, size and vigor of growth was the 
superior of ‘‘Sea Foam.”’ 
Price, 40c. each, $4.00 per doz.; 2 for 70c., or 3 for $1.00. 
DOUBLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. 
Plants grown from the same strain of seed which produced 
the above varieties, but not all of them are certain to be double. 
Such of them as come single will, however, be certain to be 
larger and more brilliantly colored than any of the regular single 
Petunias. 
Price, 15c. each, $1.50 per doz., $8.00 per 100. 
The full collection of six Double Fringed Petunias for $1.50. 
Two collections (12 plants) for $2.75. Three collections (18 plants) for $3.75. Four collections (24 plants) for $4.50 
| invidious distinction, when each one has such strong claims to admiration. 
——— (Mrs. fF. Sander. == 
For the first time we are enabled to offer a pure pink Double 
Fringed Petunia. At rare intervals we have had varieties of a 
lavender pink shade, but here we have one fully the equal in color 
of the finest Carnations. The culmination of the hybridizer’s art 
is reached in Mrs. F. Sander. 
Price, 50c. each, $4.50 per doz.; 2 for 80c., or 3 for $1.00. 
Ruby.——$ 
A clear white ground, with masses of ruby red showing clear and 
distinct, a blending of two strong contrasting colors bringing out 
shades it is impossible to describe or to show with the pigments 
to be obtained ; a bold flower of the largest size and deeply fringed, 
these are the leading characteristics of. *« Ruby. 
Price, 30c. each, $3. 00 per doz. ; 2 for 50c., or 4 for $1.00. 
Fimetbyst. 
A softening of color effects, a greater harmony of light and 
shade, the blending of rich violet and transparent mauve, with 
soft pearly white, these make up a pleasing contrast to the bolder 
color effects of the preceding, and as such will, without doubt, find 
many admirers for ‘‘ Amethyst.” 
Price, 30c. each, $3.00 per doz. ; 2 for 50c., or 4 for $1.00. 
(If bought separately would cost $2.10.) 
SINGLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. oy 
These are grown from seed of our own saying, and are the same 
strain as those we use in our hybridizing to obtain double flowers. 
Many of them will be finely fringed, and most of them are sure to 
be highly colored varieties. For massing in beds or borders these 
are unequaled. 
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. 
ORDER SEEDS OF HENDERSON’S SUPERB DOUBLE FRINGED PETUNIAS. 
