BAS PETER HENDERSON &CO.,NEW YORK--- 
OARYOANTHEMUM SEED. 
This seed will produce grand blooming plants the first season. 
( magnificent and regal beauty of these Royal flowers of the Orient is too well known to all flower- 
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DIREGT FROM GHINA 
GHOIGEST. . fiND JAPAN. : : : 
HYBRIDIZED 
lovers to call forth further eulogy from ourselves. There are many people, however, who do not 
realize how easily they may be grown from seed, and that all of the new and magnificent varieties 
introduced were propagated from parent seedlings, probably saved from choice hybridized seed, 
similar to that we are now offering, which we have procured through our agents in Japan and China from the 
choicest and newest varieties grown in the gardens of the nobility, and may be expected to produce some new 
and unusually fine sorts. (See cut.) Full directions for flowering these Chrysanthemums the first season 
from seed accompany each package. JAPANESE AND CIIINESE 
Chinese Double, Choicest Mixed Colors. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
double flowers with incurved petals.................... 
Japanese Double, Choicest Mixed. 
Large 
Pkt. 15 
ble flowers with long twisted petals......... seeteeseeaeseseeese 15 
Ostrich Plume, Choicest Double Mixed. Petals 
covered with hairs..........:0.ccececseeeees deteennteereseneens seneeeees : 15 
Pompone-flowered, Choicest Mixed. Medium-sized ss 
flowers compactly GOUDLE.........ccceeceeeeceecnceeeceeeeseeseeens 15 cadee NT 
Delaux’s Early-flowering, Choicest Mixed. New 
class that blooms several weeks earlier; they are 
mostly of the Japanese type, but of dwarf and branch- 
ing habit and very abundant bloomers...................5+- 15 
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\ PLUMED -. GELOSIA, 
Thompson’s ‘‘ Magnifica.”’ 
Fl NEW and very superior type of the 
popular ostrich-plumed Celosias, 
forming pyramidal branching plants 
3% feet high and bearing unusually 
large, conical, plumed heads of either 
golden yeilow, fiery scarlet, purple, 
salmon, blood-red, ete. The plants 
are annuals, growing easily and 
quickly from seed, and present a very 
showy appearance in the summer gar- 
den, lasting long in bloom. (See cut.) 
Mixed Colors............. sovvecsveret Kb. 15 
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INERARIA HYBRIDA- 
Henderson’s INERARIA 
Large-flowering HYBRIDA. 
CENT and indispensable flowering 
plants for spring decoration for the con- 
servatory or window garden. The flowers meas- 
ure 2 to 3 inches across, are of white, blue, violet 
and crimson shades; usually two or more colors 
are shown in One flower, covering the plant with a 
sheet of bloom. 
Large-flowering, Choicest Mixed. From 
prize varieties............ ppnEbOROaBSAbCoaSoaccesoubodi Pkt. 25 
Hybrida, with White Mottled Leaves. Pro- 
duces large flowers of the usual variety of colors, 
CHRYSANTHEMUM, ‘“‘ PRINCESS HENRY.”’ 
while the foliage is variegated white and yreen; 
‘6s a very ornamental pot plant............0..ceccceeee ee 25 
Ghrysanthemum Double Large-flowering, Mixed................ 25 
Cactus-flowered Cineraria. A unique novelty 
of great merit. The flowers are very large and 
Maxima, : : : P rincess Henry. 
CH great white ‘‘Moon-Penny”’ daisy has long been 
considered one of our finest hardy perennials for 
permanent garden decoration. There have, however, been 
several improvements on it within the past few years, and 
this variety is the latest, finest and most valuable of all, 
even superior to the famous ‘‘Perfection.’”? Princess 
the petals rolled up from base to point, similar 
to the popular Cactus Dahlias, giving the flowers 
a unique grace and beauty. The colors are 
white, with points of some color such as red, 
blue, indigo, rose, ete. Mixed Colors..Pkt. 35 
“Last spring we had the largest and finest Cin- 
Henry forms a bushy, compact, globular plant 18 inches | @727/as in this part of the State, from seeds pur- 
high, producing in greatest abundance, during late sum- 
mer and fall, magnificent, large white flowers, 4 to 6 
inches across. They are of splendid substance and, hay- 
ing long stems, are highly prized for cutting, lasting in 
water fully aweek. It flowers the first season from spring- 
sown seed, and comes up every summer in the same 
beauty for many years, surviving the severest winters. 
A'S€C;CUL:)neeeneeeeee 5S Pkt.15 
chased from you last summer.’”’—W. 
Butz, New Castle, Penna. 
“My gardener raised some of the finest Cinera- 
Tias, from seed parchased from you last spring, 
that have ever been seen around here. I meas- 
ured some that were fully three inches in diame- 
ter, plants in 8-inch pots.”—F,. A. KEcHINE, Can- 
andaigua, N. Y. 
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PLUMED CELOSIA, ‘‘MAGNIFICA.”® 
Henderson’s Superior 
.. Large-leaved.. 
FRINGED COLEUS. 
OLEUS grownfrom seed make very thrifty plants 
the first season. For subtropical groups the 
endless variety and combinations of brilliant colors 
are very captivating. The seed that we offer has 
been saved from a choice collection of large fringe- 
leaved Coleus hybridized by hand and must produce 
SOME Crand VArietics.......,c.cisccccesvsvesecccvereees Pkt. 25 
We Deliver Free to any Post Office or Railroad Express Office in the U. S. all Vegetable Seeds, Flower Seeds and Bulbs, except where noted. 
