PETER HENDERSON'S PLANT CATALOGUE. 



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ERIANTHUS RAVENNJE-Co^iW. 



Grass, but bloom? much more abundantly, our specimen plants last season throwing np 

 over thirty flower-stems each, aud, with the advautage of being hardy, will prove a 

 most desirable plant for the decoration of lawns. Seeds sown in our green-houses last 

 March produced plants which threw up flower-stems four feet in height by October. 

 Price, 3D cents each ; $3 per dozen. * 



PERNS. 



These beautiful plants are now getting into very general cultivation; their great 

 diversity aud gracefulness of foliage make them much valued as plants for baskets, 

 vases, or rook- work, or as specimen plauts for parlor or the conservatory. 

 Price, 30 cents each; twelve beautiful sorts, $3. 



FEVERFEW, DOUBLE WHITE. 



Fine plants of this indispensable Summer-blooming favorite. 

 Price, 15 cents each ; $1.50 per dozen. 



FUCHSIAS— General Collection. 



Ada, corolla white, sepals rich crimson. 

 Alba coooinea, sepals white, corolla dark 



purple. 

 Annie Boleyn, sepals purple, double corolla 



dark. 

 Avalanche, bright carmine sepals, broad and 



evenly recurved, violet corolla. 

 Beauty of Sholden, sepals bright red, corolla 



peach color. 

 Charming, violet corolla, crimson sepals, 



immense clusters. 

 Elm City, corolla forming crimson scarlet 



globular balls, double. 

 Golden Treasure, leaves yellow, purple cor- 

 olla, scarlet sepals. 

 Garibaldi, double, dense, violet blue corolla. 

 Gov. Baker, sepals crimson, corolla deep 



plum color. 

 King of the Fuchsias, sepals light carmine, 



coroila rich violet pnrple, large. 

 Little Alice, very dwarf, white corolla, 



early. 

 Little Harry, scarlet sepals, mauve blue 



corolla. 

 Lustre, scarlet corolla, blush sepals. 



Monslrosa, bright rose sepals, corolla fine 



double white. 

 Norfolk Giant, immense size, double 



violet. 

 President, one of the finest white corolla 



varieties. 

 Prince Imperial, best dark early sort. 

 Punch, corolla pure white, sepals dark 



crimson. 

 Puritani, white corolla, veined rose. 

 Pose of Castile, corolla violet, sepals white. 

 Speeiosa, Winter-flowening variety. 

 Striata Perfecta, double, striped blue and 



crimson. 

 Symbol, sepals bright carmine, corolla 



white, very fine. 

 Taglioni (Dent's), rich maroon corolla, 



crimson sepals. 

 Taglioni, large white reflexed sepals, cor- 

 olla dark violet. 

 Wave of Life, scarlet sepals, corolla violet 



blue, of fine form, gold-tinted foliage, 



forming a fine contrast with bloom. 

 Weeping Beauty, scarlet sepals, gracefully 



reflexed, large expanded blue corolla. 



The above includes the finest of our new sorts of 1871, with the leading kinds of 

 previous years. 



Price 30 cents each ; $3 per dozen ; full set of twenty-eight sorts, $6. 



FUCHSIAS, PRINCE IMPERIAL AND ELM CITY. 



The earliest flowering of the dark varieties; corolla dark pnrple, with bright 

 scarlet sepals ; habit neat and compact ; the two leading New York market sorts; double 

 and single. 



Price, 30 cents each ; §3 per dozen ; $18 per hundred. 



FUCHSIAS, WINTER-FLOWERING. 



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F. Speeiosa, a well-known variety, producing large flowers two inches in length, 

 tubes and sepals of which are blush, the corolla crimson. The single plants of this 

 variety grown in eight or nine inch pots will produce from 300 to 500 flowers from 

 December to May. ' 



F. Serraiifolia, an equally valuable variety for Winter flowering ; flowers as large, 

 but of a color distinct from any other Fuchsia. The tube of the flower is carmine, the 

 tips of the sepals shading to green ; corolla light scarlet, with white anthers. This, 

 though an old variety, is not so common as .the preceding. 



Price, 30 cents each ; $3 per dozen. 



