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PETER HENDERSON & CO-FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



gorgeous H^ipal F©i^sefeteia. 



"Mexican Kire Plant" or " F"ire on the Mountain." 



{Euphorbia heterophylla or cyathophora.) 



I This glorious novelty is an annual of the easiest culture, forming 

 bushy plants 3 to 4 ft. high, with glossy green fiddle-shaped leaves, 

 ■which form at the ends of the branches into large whorls and bracts, 

 among which small green flowers appear in summer, and immedi- 

 ately after the leaves commence to color up. The smaller bracts 

 among the flowers are of a brilliant orange-scarlet, and the large 

 surrounding leaves soon become blazed with a darker fiery scarlet 

 so that only a tip of green is left. As these colored bracts almost 

 cover the plant, the effect is indescribably grand. Any one who 

 has seen the gorgeous scarlet Poinsettia pulcherrima about Christ- 

 mas in our green-houses can form some idea of the beauty of this 

 Annual. Our long row of well colored plants is a wonderful sight 

 and convinces us that groups or solid masses of this Annual Poin- 

 settia will create a sensation anywhere. The seeds grow easily if 

 sown in the open ground as soon as it is warm enough, but if they 

 can be started early in the house or hot bed the brilliant scarlet 

 color will appear much earlier in the season, and is always retained 

 until frost. In its native habitat in Mexico the leaves become 

 red in May and remain so until December. The plants should be 

 grown in a warm situation, fully exposed to the sun, which en- 

 hances the brilliancy and hastens the coloring. If they are pruned 

 when young they branch out into finely formed bushes. Water plentifully in dry 

 hot weather. This "Annual Poinsettia" is also valuable as a pot plant for house 

 culture. Seeds sown early in the summer will produce plants that retain their 

 glowing scarlet leaves and bracts all winter. (See cut.) Per packet, 25 cts. 



COCKSCOMB, "Queen of the Dwarfs." 



This is the finest Cockscomb we ever saw. In a lot of 200 plants of this variety itt 

 our trial grounds, we do not think there was a variation in height of two inches, the- 

 average being 8 inches. The combs measured from seven to ten inches across, of perfect- 

 form and of a brilliant dark scarlet. A beautiful variety for garden or pot- 

 culture. Per packet, 25 cts. 



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Sefiancie" }™f Slexi^ia. 



A superb new variety of glowing crimson-scarlet, lustrous and dazzling, a 

 richness of tone not before known in Gloxinias. The flowers are large, and the 

 edges of the petals delicately frilled ; the flowers stand erect, and the contrast- 

 between the velvety green foliage, which is veined with silver} 7 white, is inde- 

 scribably charming. It comes nearly true from seed, about ninety-five per cent.,, 

 and is one of the finest novelties of the season. Per packet, 50 cts. 



DOUBLE GOLDEN DATURA. 



(D. Chloranthafl. pi.) 



"We do not offer this as a new variety by any means, but its striking beauty 



in our trial grounds the past season induces us to prominently offer it. It is 



Sr* an annual of rapid and luxuriant growth, forming bushes about two feet high, 



and bearing large golden yellow funnel-shaped flowers fully three inches long 



and nearly as broad, called double from 



the fact that the flowers are formed of 



usually three funnels set one inside of the 



other; very fragrant. A free flowering 



and handsome 



packet, 15 cts. 



species. (See cut.) Per 



NEW GIATVT 



pmErican Gnwelip 



(Dodecatheon Clevelandi.) 

 This beautiful perennial is now offered 

 for the first time. It was discovered in 

 California, and named by Prof. Edward 

 L. Greene, of the State University of Cali- 

 fornia, in 1888. It throws up stems of 

 flowers f ully 1 foot high, these being sur- 

 mounted with from 6 to 10 large, beauti- 

 ful, Cyclamen-like flowers of violet blue, 

 It is perfectly hardy, and a beautiful plant 

 (See cut.) Per packet, 25 cts. 



NEW WHITE CUSHION PINK, "Snow King.'* 



(Silene pendula compacta.) 

 A very dwarf, compact growing annual, 3 to 4 inches high, forming cushion- 

 like plants 9 to 12 inches across, of easy culture, flowering throughout the sum- 

 mer, producing freely pure white globular flowers that entirely cover the plant. 

 A charming novelty. Per packet, 15 cts. 



NEW GIANT AMERICAN COWSLIP. 



with yellow and black centre, 

 for partially shaded situations. 



DOUBLE GOLDEN DATURA. 



