PETER HENDERSON & CO.. NEW YORK— FLOWER SEEDS 



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 POLYANTHUS Primula Elatior. An early-blooming 

 Primrose for spring flower beds or pot culture; the 

 large umbels of flowers edged and laced are borne 

 on stalks 8 inches tall. Mixed colors 10 



POPPY GIANT ORIENTAL. These hold an unrivaled 



position for effectiveness in hardy borders; height 



2 to 3 feet; flowers immense, often 6 inches across. 



Colosseum. Flowers 8 inches across. Dark scarlet. 



with a black spot at the base of each petal 15 



Beauty of Livermere. Crimson with black blotch. . . .15 



Princess Victoria Louise Salmon-scarlet 15 



Salmon Queen. Salmon-yellow 15 



Rembrandt. Orange-scarlet 15 



Dark Scarlet 15 



Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 ^eerfj. 50c 10 



POPPY ICELAND (Papaver Nudicaule). The fragrant. 



crusJied satin-like flowers are produced in never- 

 ceasing succession from the beginning of June to 

 October; fine for cutting 



Yellow 10 White 10 



Scarlet 10 Gold tinged red 10 



Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds. 50c 10 



Storrie's New Iceland Poppies. This new strain 

 contains many new colors and shades, including 

 blush, salmon, ccral-pink, orange-rose, white, lemon, 

 orange, striped, flecked, edged blended, etc. 

 Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 75c 15 



HARDY BLUE PRIMROSE— Primula Acaulis 



A beautiful blue-flowered type of the popular old 

 English yellow Primrose. Equally as hardy, and 

 a fitting companion for naturalizing among shrubs, 

 in turf or the herbaceous border 25 



PRIMULA JAPONIC A HYBRIDS. These grand, new 

 Japan Primroses are perfectly hardy — forming 

 stately, robust plants that carry large trusses of 

 bloom. The colors range from pure white through 

 shades of pink to deep crimson 25 



PYRETHRUM Hybridum. Hardy herbaceous plants. 

 flowers 3 to 4 inches across, of rose, flesh, pink, white 

 crimson, etc.; borne on stems 2 feet high. 



Single, Large-flowering. Mixed colors 10 



Double, Large-flowering. Mixed colors 25 



SCABIOSA Hardy Varieties. 



Caucasica Perfecta. Dense, spreading plants 2 or 3 

 feet high. Semi-double flowers, 3 to 4 inches across 

 poised on stalks 1 K to 2 feet long. The coloring 

 is a beautiful lilac-blue 15 



Caucasica Alba. A large, pure white variety; counter- 

 part of the above; beautiful; the flowers. 3 to 4 inches 

 across, on long stems, are exquisite for vases, lasting 

 a. long time in water, and they are borne freely like 

 those of its blue-colored parent from early summer 

 to late fall 25 



Japonica. Xew Scabious from Japan, 2>^ feet in 

 height and breadth, with elegant light green foliage. 

 Flowers 2 inches across, on long wiry stems 15 

 inches in length, of a beautiful mauve blue 10 



Pkt. 

 STOKESIA, The Hardy Cornflower. The plants grow 

 from 18 to 24 inches high and begin flowering in 

 July, continuing without interruption till late in 

 October. The flowers, 4 to 5 inches across, on4ong 

 stems, are valuable for cutting 



Cyanea Blue. Lavender-blue 10 



Cyanea Alba. Xew; pure white flowers 10 



Hybrids, Mixed Colors, include some charming 

 shades of blue, lavender, violet, white, and a new- 

 pink variety 15 



SWEET ROCKET or Dames Violet. Favorite, hardy, 

 herba\;eous perennials — for the garden border. The 

 plants form clumps 2 to 3 feet in height covered 

 with showy termin.al spikes of flowers resembling 

 Stocks. The colors range from white through lilac 

 to pink and purple; very productive of bloom and 



splendid for cut flowers. Mixed Colors 10 



SWEET WILLIAM (Dianthus barbatus.). One of the 

 finest of our hardy garden plants, of easy culture, 

 thriving in any good garden soil. The plants grow 

 about 1 foot high and form fine clun-ps 

 Henderson's Perfection. Our improved Perfection 

 strains produce in great profusion large florets in a 

 great variety of extren--ely rich colors 



Extra choice Single varieties mixed 10 



Double large-flowering mixed. Extra choice 15 



Pink Beauty. Large single flowers of pure pink 15 



Scarlet Beauty. Large single scarlet flowers 15 



Harlequin. Large flowers of several colors produced 

 on one plant. Some heads will be all crimson, 

 others all pink, white, etc., but usually florets of 



different colors will be borne in one head 15 



TRITOMAUVARIA. "Red Hot Poker Plant." Splen- 

 did hardy perennial planets, for clumps on lawn or 

 among shrubbery, where the tall spikes of orange 

 red flowers make an effective display from August 



until November. 4 to 5 feet 10 



New Hybrid Tritomas. Showy, hardy plants, pro- 

 ducing the brightest flowers of the autum.n garden. 

 They grow from seed and flower well the second 

 year commencing in May and continuing through 

 the summer and fall. They range in color through 

 shades of yellow to orange and from salmon-pink, 

 coral red, etc., to crimson. The plants vary in 



height from 18 inches to 6 feet 25 



PANSY- VIOLETS, Tufted or Bedding. (Vida cornuta 

 grandiflora hybrida.) Pansy-like blossom.s, 2 to 2|j 

 inches across, of great substance and brilliant colors. 

 The plants are hardy, forming tufted clumps, with 

 myriads of flowers from spring until cold weather. 



Many are scented. Mixed colors 15 



WALL FLOWER. These perennials make nice bushy 

 plants, IK feet high, bearing in the spring long 

 spikes of fragrant flowers of various colors, crimson, 

 purple, yellow apricot, mahogany, pink, etc. 



Large Double. Mixed colors 15 



Large Single. Mixed colors 10 



Collection of 6 separate Double Wall Flowers 50 



WISTARIA, Chinese. Of luxuriant and rapid growth, 

 bearing in the spring immense panicles of flowers 

 produced in great profusion, 75 feet. Blue 10 



