PETER HENDERSON & CO.-FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



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THE EXQUISITE 



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A new strain of beautiful hardy annual Poppies, that deserve 

 to be extensively grown ; they flower lavishly for a long period. 

 The illustration (much reduced) conveys but little idea of their 

 exquisite beauty. The originator, Eev. W. Wilkes, says: "The 

 absence of black blood, which I have been years in eradicating, 

 gives them their wonderfully light, bright tissue-paper-like appear- 

 ance. The colors range from purest white, with yellow stamens, 

 through pinks of all shades to glowing scarlet, but a scarlet with- 

 out black. Some are red with white edges, and others veined and 

 streaked and flaked from the centre toward the edges in the most 

 oharming confusion." {See cut.) In mixed colors, per packet, 25cts. 



Large Flowering Hardy 



NEW HYBRID ORIENTAL POPPIES. 



<fP. Orientate X bracteata — hybrids.) 



These grand and showy summer 

 'flowering plants are unquestionably 

 •one of the finest hardy perennials 

 grown. The plants grow about 2}4 

 feet high, and throw up numerous 

 flower stalks during the summer 

 months, each bearing a magnificent 

 and enormous flower, 4 to 6 inches 

 across. These new hybrid varieties 

 include charming new colors, includ- 

 ing exquisite blush pink, blotched 

 purple ; deep blood red, blotched 

 black ; glowing scarlet ; pure reddish 

 <orange ; soft salmon, etc. {See, cut.) 



NEW SHIRLEY POPPIES. 



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Primross Yellow JFropaeolunj. 



{T. Lobbianum, "Asa Gray.") 

 This family of Lobb's Nasturtiums 

 are among our most beautiful summer 

 flowering climbers ; they climb much 

 higher than the ordinary Nasturtium 

 (T. majus); the foliage is smaller, and 

 the flowers, though no larger, are 

 borne in greater profusion. This new 

 variety is the lightest color yet pro- 

 duced, being a delicate primrose or 

 soft sulphur yellow ; a charming and 

 graceful climber. Per packet, 25 cts. 



flew golden-Leaved Verbena^. 



(V. hybrida foliis aureis.) 

 These exquisite new varieties are of 

 luxuriant growth, the flower the same 

 size and substance as the ordinary 

 varieties. The foliage is golden yel- 

 low. The colors range through white, 

 scarlet, blue, etc., in various shades, 

 and in their golden setting appear 

 unusually beautiful and effective. 

 Mixed colors, per packet, 25 cts. 



(Sreat White dalifnrnio Pnppy. 



{Romneya Coutteri.) 

 A fine perennial of supreme and stately beauty ; it is one of the best of plants 



| for yielding a long succession of bloom, flowering from July until November. 



I It is of value as a cut flower, lasting well in water, and its delicate Primrose- 

 like perfume is most acceptable in a room. The texture of the petals is ex- 

 tremely delicate, indeed half transparent ; they never lose the crumpled folds 

 that in the case of most Poppies betoken a newly opened state. Our collector 

 writes : "If you could only see these plants, now in bloom, I am sure you would 

 agree with me that there is no finer perennial grown. At first I took them to be 

 large single white Peeonias, as they resemble them very much in foliage as well 

 as in the flowers ; the latter are large (4 to 5 inches across), pure white, with a 

 fine bunch of yellow stamens. The plants attain a height here of 6 to 8 feet." It 

 will be hardy south of "Washington, but north of that latitude it will require cold 

 green-house protection in winter, or can be kept in a light cellar. (-See cut.) 

 Per packet, 25 cts. 



