PETER HENDERSON & CO.— FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



15 



CAMPANULA CALYCANTHEMA EOSEA. 



Campanula Calycantbema Ro§ea. 

 « Pink Canterbury Bell." 



One of the most beautiful sights we saw in England last 

 summer was a large bed of this peerless variety, its brilliant 

 pink bells rendering the plant a striking object hundreds of 

 feet away. The class C. Medea Calycanthema, to which this 

 variety belongs, is a new form of the old Canterbury Bells 

 (distinguished by the calyx forming a cup around the base of 

 bell or corolla). Of this form we already have a blue and 

 white variety, now largely grown, and we are sure that this 

 Pink Canterbury Bell, if it may be so called, being so much 

 rnore beautiful, will come into even greater demand. (See 

 cut) Per pkt 15 



C. Calycanthema, blue peroz. 2 00 



— - white " 2 50 



New Giant Perfection, Ten Weeks' 

 Stock. 



The persistent efforts of German growers to improve this 

 most important annual finds one of its best results in this 

 splendid new race. The plants of the New Giant Perfection 

 are pyramidal in shape, 2^ feet high, and producing long 

 spikes of double flowers, much larger and finer than the ordi. 

 nary Ten Weeks' Stock. Seed in mixed colors per pkt. .15 



Double Stock Flowered Tall Larkspur. 

 "Lustrous Carmine." 



This is the name given to a very striking, new variety of 

 Larkspur ; the finest sort we think yet introduced. Its 

 color is a fiery or lustrous carmine, and bedded out, produces 

 a most brilliant effect. Per pkt 15 



JSew Dwarf Marvel of Peru. 



A new Dwarf White Marvel of Peru, in every way desir- 

 able. Fully developed plants of this novelty are never more 

 than 10 inches in height, completely studded with snow-white 

 flowers contrasting finely with its yellowish foliage. The in- 

 troducer says that it comes entirely true from seed, and we 

 have no doubt will be found most useful for ribbon line 

 gardening. Per pkt 36 



New Double Flowering; Gaillardia, 

 (Gaillardia Picta Lorenziana.) 



Our illustration above conveys a true idea of this remark- 

 able novelty, probably the best and certainly the most distinct 

 new thing offered this year. In a strict botanical sense, it is 

 not double, but it is so entirely different from the old single 

 Gaillardia, that the blooms would scarcely be recognized as 

 belonging to the same species. The colors offered (in mix- 

 ture) are sulphur and golden yellow, orange, claret and 

 amaranth, and are produced quite as freely as any of the older 

 sorts. Per pkt 35 



Mignonette, " Golden Queen." 



This new variety was one of the grandest novelties in our 

 grounds last season. It could be distinguished from all other 

 Mignonettes as far as the bed could be seen, and was literally 

 a mass of fragrant gold. Per pkt 15 



New Mignonette. 

 (Reseda Odorata Compacta Glauca.) 



A new sort which forms a circular bush eighteen inches in 

 diameter, and not more than nine inches in height; its fra- 

 grant blooms are of a shade entirely distinct in Mignonette, 

 being what might be called a glaucous shade of lilac. One 

 of the best new things we have ever met with. Per Pkt. 15 



Gloxinia. 



"I have seen a collection of Gloxinia produced from seed 

 obtained from your establishment by Mr. Thomas Davidson 

 of this city, which are the most beautiful imaginable, both in 

 colors and variety." — Thomas Beckett, M. D., Albany, 

 N. Y. 



Gloxinia hybrida, finest mixed, trade pkt. $2 00. 



