PETER HENDERSON'S PLANT CATALOGUE. 



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PENTSTEMONS. 



This beautiful class make fiue plants of from eighteen inches to two feet in height, 

 and are in continuous bloom from the time they are planted out until frost ; flowers in 

 spikes of Gloxinia-like form, shaded and mottled in all colors of white, blue, scarlet, crim- 

 son and pink . 



Decasaine, sulphur, pink tinted. 

 Euclide, crimson, feathered purple. 

 Mc. Christine, carmiue, white throat. 

 Livingston, carmine, white throat. 

 Souvenior de M. Cernet. 

 Mrs. Theney, crimson, violet throat. 

 Md. Christine. 



Robert Heggett. 



Mons. Parette, purplish black, blush tube. 



Pauline Dumont, crimson, white throat. 



Princess Alice, blush purple and white. 



Rubra Magnifica, red and white. 



Sir Harry, pink and red. 



Tom Pouce, blush, shaded crimson. 



Price 30 cents each ; set of fourteen sorts for $3. 



POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. 



A tropical plant of gorgeous beauty, the bracts or leaves that surround the flower 

 being, in well grown specimens, one foot in diameter, of the most dazzling scarlet. In a 

 hot-house temperature of 60 degrees, it begins to bloom in November, and remains expan- 

 ded until February. This peculiarity of blooming in the heart of Winter makes it large- 

 ly in demand for baskets and vases of cut flowers at the holidays in our large cities. 

 During the holiday week of last year we sold 3000 heads of Poinsettia, at an average of 

 16 cents each. 



Price 25 cents, 50 cents, $1 and $3 each, according to size. 



DWARF POMEGRANATE.— (Punica Nana.] 



A dwarf variety of Pomegranate. It has the peculiarity of flowering profusely, while 

 not more than a foot in height. Well grown specimens grow about six feet in height, 

 by three feet in diameter ; plants of this size in bloom are truly magnificent. The color 

 of the flower is a peculiar shade of orange scarlet, a very rare color, brilliant in the ex- 

 treme. The plant blooms from October to December. As it is deciduous, after blooming, 

 it can be kept in a cellar or under the stage of a greenhouse, until it is time to start it to 

 grow again in May. In any of the States where the thermometer does not fall to fifteen 

 degrees below freezing, it is entirely hardy. See cut. 



Price 50 cents each ; $4 50 per dozen. 



POMEGRANATE. 



Punica Granatum. red. | 



■In Variety. 



Punica Granatum Album, white. 



Punica Granatum Album Plenum, double white. 

 Price 50 cents each ; $4 50 per dozen. Four sorts for $1 50. 



