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PETER HENDERSON'S CATALOGUE: 
BEGONIA (Flowering.) 
Plants adapting themselves to a variety of uses; are used 
for planting in the garden for summer decoration, or as pot 
plants, or for forcing for cut flowers; are very easily 
grown, but require heat—an average of 65 degrees at night 
during winter is necessary. The flowers are beautiful, 
drooping in graceful panicles of various colors, as given be- 
low. They are largely used in the construction of bouquets, 
ete., by florists. ; 
Argentea. (See 
Agyrostygma 
white. 
Carnea, 
50 cts. 
age 100.) 
Flowers pink; leaves spotted 
‘eitchii. 
Flowers bright carmine. 
Deeswelliana. Flowers bright scarlet. 
Foliosa. White, with neat, drooping foliage. 
Fuchsoides Alba. Flowers pure white. 
Mybrida Multiflora. Small leaves, rosy pink flowers. 
Ingramii. Rose color. 
Miniata. Coral red. 
Nitida. Flowers light flesh color. 
Nitida Alba. Flowers white. 
Richardsonii. Flowers white; leaves finely divided. 
Rubra, (See page 100.) 50 cts 
Sanguinea. surface of leaves olive, under side crimson. 
Matallica. (See page 100.) $1.00. 
Saundersonii, lowers bright scarlet crimson. 
Washingtoniana, Pure white. 
Weltoniensis, Flowers rich shade of ping. 
Weltoniensis Alba, Flowers white 
30 cts. each; $3.00 Pe doz., except where noted. 
Set of 19 sorts, $6.00. 
(For newer sorts and tuberous-rooted varieties, see 
page 100.) 
BALSAMS—DOUBLE., 
READY MAY 15TH. 
We offer a strain of these double and symmetrical in form 
as a Camellia. These very double Balsams are used more 
than anything else for the making up of bouquets, or other 
cut-flower work in summer. 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
GROUP OF CLEMATIS. 
CLEMATIS—Newer Sorts. 
Recently, the improvements made both in the size and col- 
oring of the Clematis have been very decided and marked, 
and we have now a wide range of color, varying from white 
to dark blue and velvety purple: and scarlet, as in C. coc- 
cinea. They are perfectly hardy, of rapid growth, attaining 
a height of twenty feet. and blooming during the greater 
part of the summer and fall. The effect produced by a well- 
grown plant, when in bloom,is grand. We offer thirteen of 
fhe best distinct sorts. (See cut.) 
Coccinea, 
Alexandra, Pale reddish violet. 
Albert Victor. Lavender. ; 
Crispa. Pinkish white, bell shaped. 
Scarlet. ets. (See cut, page 101.) 
Double White, White; double. 
Jackmani. Intense violet purple. 
Languinosa Nivea. Pure white. 
Lady Londesborough. Silver gray, pale stripes or bars, 
Rubra Violacea,. Maroon-purple. 
Rosamond, Light lavender. 
Standishi. Light mauve-purple. 
Star of India. Plum color, with red bars or stripes. 
Flamula, (See Special Description below.) 30 cts. 
75 ets. each, except where noted; $7.50 per set of thirteen, 
2d size, 50 cts. each; $4.50 per set. 
CLEMATIS FLAMULA (Fragrant Virgin’s 
Bower). 
This is an old and well-known species, entirely distinct 
from most of the above; flowers pure white, deliciously fra- 
grant. The plants attain a height of twenty feet, and when 
trained on trellis work, and in full bloom, look like a mass of 
snow. The odor is perceptible at a distance of 200 yards. 
Hardy. 30 ets. each; $3.00 per doz. 
CALLA ETHIOPICA (‘Lily of the Nile”’), 
_ Afine house plant. It requires an abundance of water dur- 
ing the growing season, and should have a period of rest from 
May to August, by turning the pots on their sides in some 
shady place. 30 cts. each; $3. er doz. 
Extra large plants, $1.00 each; $10.50 per doz. 
CAMPSIDIUM FILICIFOLIUM. 
An elegant climber, of rapid growth, for greenhouse cul- 
ture, the leaves of which much resemble the fronds of a fern 
in miniature, giving it an unusual graceful appearance. It 
may be grown as a pot plant, or trained tothe rafters. Very 
desirable 40 cts. each; $4.00 per doz.. 
Teper ATTEN 
CALADIUM. 
CALADIUMS—In Variety. 
We offer a superb collection of Caladiums. They assume 
every imaginable color in their variegation of spotting, vein- 
ing and marbling of leaves. The cut represents Argyrites, 
a beautiful, white-spotted variety, one of the smallest growing 
kinds, and in partial shade, in moist soil, most of the varie- 
ties do well planted out in summer, but their great value is 
for exhibition plants, for fairs, in summer and fall, pr for 
ornaments for parlor or green-house, when pot-grown. (See . 
cut.) 
25 distinct sorts, 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; set of 25 sorts, 2 
36.00. 
25 distinct sorts. newer and scarcer varieties, 50 cts. each; 
$4.50 per doz.; set of 25 sorts, $10.00. 
CALADIUM ESCULENTUM. 
A tropical plant of the well-known family of Caladium 
crowing toa height of three or four feet. with corresponding 
breadth. The leaves are of immense size. often eighteen 
inches by two feet. As a single plant for lawns or large 
tlower borders it has no superior. 
25 cts. each; $2.25 per doz. 
Large. 50 ets. each; $4.50 per doz, 
Extra large bulbs, $1.00 each; $9.00 per doz. 
