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PETER HENDERSON’ 8 CATALOGUE. 
NEW FANCY HYBRID PETUNIAS. 
Our seedling Petunias have justly gained a country-wide | 
reputation. They are one of our specialties to which we 
devote great attention. All the seed from which these plants 
are raised was saved from the finest flowers, carefully hybri- 
dized by hand. This new race of Petunias is characterized 
by the immense size of the flowers, and brillianey of colors, 
which comprise the varied shades of rose, purple, white, 
crimson, maroon, pink, ete., beautifully fringed and striped. 
Seedlings, mixed, single, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
. “* “double, 2 “ Hy 20‘ 
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DOUBLE POINSETTIA, 
(‘‘ Poinsettia Pulcherrima Plenissima.” ) 
The single variety of the Poinsettia is known to be one of 
the most gorgeous of plants, the bracts or flower leaves being 
often over a foot in diameter and of the most brilliant vermil- 
ion color. We grow an area of 3,000 square feet of this plant 
annually, and the sight it presents when in full bloom at the 
holidays is worth coming miles to see. The. kind above 
offered is the double variety of this beautiful plant. 
Price of the double varieties, $1.00, $2.00, $3.00 and $5 
each. 
each, according to the size. 
TRADESCANTIA MULTI- 
COLOR. 
A beautiful new variety. which has proved 
a great acquisition to our list of basket plants. 
It is of creeping or drooping habit; foliage 
brightly marked and streaked with rose, 
white, pink, bronze, and green. 
30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 
SALVIA PATENSALBA, 
Identical with the beautiful blue variety 
Salvia Patens, but with pure white flowers. 
75 cts. gach: § $7.50 per doz. 
SALVIA RUTILANS. (Apple- 
Scented.) 
Produces very freely neat spikes of mag- 
enta-colored flowers: graceful foliage, with a 
very agreeable fragrance. 
50 cts. each; $4.50 per doz. 
SALVIA AMABILIS. 
Unquestionably the freest flowering of all 
the Salvias. Small plants, set out the first of 
June last year, were a sheet of bloom all 
summer. Color deep violet, shaded porce- 
lain blue and white. A splendid flower to cut 
for bouquets. 
50 cts. each; 
for $1.50. 
$4.50 per doz.:; the three sorts 
NEW DWARF STEVIA. 
(Stevia Serrata Nana.) 
A very distinct variety of the well-known winter-flowering 
Stevia Serrata, which was offered for the first time last year. 
It never grows over 18 inches high, and it produces a far 
denser mass of flowers than the old variety, the flowers are 
whiter, and it is a great improvement in every respect. 
Ist size, 75 cts. each; $7.50 per doz. 
2d 50 ** cs 4.50 
6B Acie te ‘ es. 
STENOTAPHRON, 
This plant is supposed to bea native of Japan, and has 
proved to be one of the most desirable plants for baskets. 
vases and urns, and for a bracket in window decoration it 
has no equal, its elegant grass-like foliage, striped with white 
and creamy-yellow, with long pendant shoots of from one to 
two feet in length, are remarkably distinct. The cultivation is 
of the very easiest, succeeding admirably in any common 
soil. The plant has also proved a great acquisition in the 
now popular carpet and pattern bedding designs. 
50 ets. each; $4.50 per doz. 
NEW DOUBLE TROPEOLUM, 
**Herman Grasshoff,”’ 
A very distinct sort of considerable value. Flowers from 
two to three inches across, of a bright orange scarlet color. 
As double as a Balsam flower. 
30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 
NEW BEDDING TROPEOLUM, 
** Volcano.” 
Of dwarf, compact habit, attaining a height of only nins 
inches with us last season. Color very dark vivid scarlet 
5.00 | One mass of bloom throughout the summer. 
The single variety we sell at from 2 cents to $1.00 | 
30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; the 2 for 50 cts. 
NEW VERBENA, “ AMERICA.” 
NEW VERBENA, “ America.” 
Among the thousands of seedling Verbenas that we hays 
raised in the past twenty years, we have never produced one 
that equals this. The individual florets are larger than those of 
any variety of its color, being one inch in diameter. The 
trusses are 314 inches across and of perfect form. The color 
is a striking shade of crimson scarlet with an immense white 
eye. It was pronounced by many leading florists, who saw is 
in our grounds last summer, to be the finest Verbena ever yet 
produced. The engraving gives but an indifferent idea of 
its grand appearance. 
75 cts. each: $7.50 per doz. 
