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IANT... PANSIES. 
EARS of scientific culture, hybridization and selection in raising pansies have 
gradually evolved a superior race of luxuriant, robust growth and deep root- 
ing, drought-withstanding qualities; the flowers have also correspondingly 
improved in size, substance, form and colors. 
varieties in this class of pansies, but annually one or more varieties would reach the 
goal of the Giants, until now we have such a complete variety of colors, that we, 
this season, discard all ordinary-sized pansies, excepting those used in our cheapest 
mixture. 
“T think IT have tried everybody’s best pansies and none of them can hold a 
big ones.”’ GRACE POPE, Southwest Point, Can. 
GIANT TRIMARDEAU PANSIES. Mixed Colors. 
candle to Henderson’s 
purple biotches 
GIANT BEAUTY. aret, edged white, violet bDlotches...............cccccceceeceeeeeeeeees 10 
HENDERSON’S COLLECTION OF 12 GIANT PANSIES. HENDERSON’S 
This collection contains 1 packet each, of 12 of the largest and most beautiful MAMMOTH 
new RUFFLED PAN 
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HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR 
EDGED BLUE. Mahogany blotches 
White, blue, violet and chocolate.......... 
AUGUSTA VICTORIA. Porcelain-white, edged 
Pansies in cultivation. -Price, 75c. 
At first there were only one or two 
Per 1000 seeds, 25c. 
Pkt. 10 
(For our cheapest strains of Pansies, see page 112.) 
—zetecrion Of Seeds, Plants, Bulbs or Books.—See our PREMIUM OFFER pe&ee 3. 
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Henderson’s MAMMOTH BUTTERFLY Pansies. 
HESE Pansies we are very proud of. Wehave sold them for a number of years 
(oy and receive hundreds of letters praising their superior beauty, size and other 
merits; they were awarded a medal at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 
where they competed with the best from all over the world. When our unequaled 
collections:of all types of pansies are in bloom we go over them daily and any plant 
producing flowers of superlative merit is removed to our ‘“‘Mammoth Butterfly”’ 
plot of pansies, where nothing but the largest, handsomest and most perfect are 
allowed to remain. Consequently the seed.is saved from the greatest variety of 
types, including only the best of Giant Cassiers, Bugnots, Trimardeau, 5-blotched 
Odier, Giant English, French and German hybrids, ete., resulting in the greatest 
variety of coloring, marking, blotching, veining, etc., for brilliant and attractive 
eds.) (Seecud.)) MIRO COlOTS:.. ccc. csecesecrcecsnecsecscectccececcercteerecnscnenscrenenentteee Pkt. 25 
“7 have grown large pansies before, but never saw the equal of the Giant 
Butterfly, the seed of which I got from you last fall. I havea large bed of them; 
the plants are 20 inches high, and the stems of the blossoms 9 inches long, while 
the blossoms themselves are sitnply monstrous, .each one a broad expanse ot 
beauty.” THOMAS C. STARR, Newton, Mass. 
Henderson's GIANT RUFFLED Pansies. 
REMARKABLE strain of Giant Pansies, the flowers of which are so large and 
rat full that the broad petals seem to be “gathered” to the stem, causing them 
to be undulated and fluted from centre to circumference, not unlike ‘‘frilled’’ 
velvet. The unusual substance of the flowers, aided by these corrugations, thus 
enables them to present bold, open and handsome faces, even during windy or dry 
summer weather, when other pansy flowers flop or wilt. The flowers are extraordi- 
narily large and are borne on strong stems well above the foliage; they are nearly 
all five-blotched on the ‘‘odier” pattern, and contain rich combinations of coloring, 
including some new tints and blendings not met with in other pansies. The plants 
are vigorous and large, and flower abundantly. (See cut.) Mixed Colors. Pkt. 25 
Henderson’s GIANT MOTTLED Pansies. 
Fl DISTINCT new type of Pansies of greatest merit. The plants are of compact, 
bushy form with luxuriant foliage. They root unusually deep, and are not 
susceptible to drought and heat; the flower stems are particularly strong, 
holding the flowers upright. The great merits of these pansies, however, lie in the 
giant size and profusion of flowers—well grown they measure 3 to 3% inches across— 
and of most gorgeous effects, blotched, spotted, marbled,.veined, striped and 
blended, colors passing through reds, rose, pink, white, purple, in beautiful and inde- 
scribable variegation. These pansies were awarded a prize at the Paris Exposi- 
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Henderson’s MAMMOTH PARISIAN Pansies. 
HE Parisian Pansies are distinguished by their magnificent and varied colors 
T and strong markings. There is usually a large “‘blotch’’ on each of the five 
petals, with a surrounding band of some strikingly contrasting color, over all 
of which is thrown a cobweb-like netting of yet another hue. The combinations 
prevailing are composed of shades of cinnamon, violet, canary and orange-yellow, 
black, garnet, light blue, indigo, cream, ete. These pansies have been brought up to 
a high standard of excellence, the flowers being of fine substance, perfect 
shape and of mammoth size, measuring, when properly cultivated, four 
inches across. A large number of these pansies are also very fragrant. 
Mixed Colors. Pkt. 25 
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BUTTERFLY PANSY. 
