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««DOLLY VARDEN’’ 
Henderson’s —y bouste snecev POPPIES. 
A new strain of double and semidouble annual Poppies of remarkable beauty; they create a beautiful 
bed when grown in quantity. The plants are sturdy, branching bushes about 15 inches high, producing for 
months myriads of exquisite crushed satin-like flowers, about 3 inches across, of the most charming 
combinations of coloring, ranging from flesh-pink to rose, crimson, maroon, white, etc., margined, 
netted, striped, flaked and mottled; exceedingly effective for garden beds. Mixed Colors.....Pkt. 10 
“Tam very much pleased with your new Poppies (Dolly Varden), and intend to show the flowers 
at the Ottawa Horticultural Societies’ Exhibition as a novelty. There are some very fine colors in 
them. Their delicacy of coloring is better than that of the ‘Shirleys,’ and they bear a wonderful 
; quantity of flowers.’’—J. A. Euuis, Carleton 
Chambers, Ottawa, Can 
New Single Giant- 
... Flowering Poppu, 
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Mi { Anextremely beautiful 
large annual Poppy— 
i \ probably the finest single 
1 9 VAN RA NY annual variety in culti- 
AM ‘\ y 3 vation; the flowers 
4 Vee measure 4 to 5 
inches across, 
are pure satiny 
white, shading 
towards the mar- 
gin into an exqui- 
site salmon _ rose, 
deepening at the edge. 
The sturdy plants grow 2% feet 
», high, and flower in extravagant 
abundance for a long period the 
first season from seed. We sawa 
large block of these grand Poppies 
in bloom in Germany the past sum- 
mer, and they were a_ perfect 
picture, commanding admiration 
from all. (See cut.)..........-. Pkt.'10 
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GIANT DOUBLE PoPPY. (Much reduced.) 
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Giant Doutle Poppies 
This ‘‘ Brilliant Mixture’’ of new double 
annual Poppies is the finest that can be made; ~3 
the seeds have been selected with greatest care 
from exclusively improved giant double-flower- 
ing sorts, and none but therichest, most brilliant, 
as well as the daintiest and loveliest shades and 
colors are included. The plants are sturdy, 
luxuriant growers, about 2% feet high, bearing 
immense double flowers 4.to 5 inchesin diameter, 
or aslarge aspzonies. Some oftheflowershave 
broad,round, smooth-edged petals, and areof imposs = 
ing effect; others have laciniated and fringed edges, - 
which add acharming grace, but the climaxing merit 
of allis the wonderful variety of coloring,ranging from 
the most gorgeous crimson-purple to intense dazzling 
crimson-scarlet down through innumerable shades 
of carmine, rose, pink, blush, salmon, flesh to purest satin 
white; many of the flowers are also striped, blended and 
edged with other colors. Almostevery tint one can con- 
ceive may be found in Henderson’s Giant Double Poppies, FER LANTL Mct 
and when grown in large masses the floral panorama is of almost unimagined 
beauty. They are of the easiest possible culture; the seed only needs to besown ¢ 
thinly in May in the garden or border where the plants are to remain. Hen- 
derson’s Giant Double Poppies, Brilliant Mixture. Pkt., 10c.;0z., 30c. 
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NEW DWARF SHIRLEY POPPIES. 
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LARGE-FLOWERING 
“MAJESTIC” 
or Giant Shirley. 
POPPIES. 
A great advance in single- 
flowering annual Poppies. The 
flowers are immense, often 
measuring 6 inches across, and 
appear like rumpled satin. The 
plantsare well branched, bushy 
and dwarf, averaging about 
12 inches high, and they bloom 
in continuous succession for 
weeks. The colors, shades, 
tints and markings are ‘pro- 
duced in limitless variety and 
are most exquisite. There are 
glistening pure white, white 
veiled with pink, white veined 
and splashed with crimson, 
rose banded with white, sal- 
mon,,carmine, blush, glowing 
scarlet and many other colors, 
splashed, striped, dotted and 
edged in the most charming 
CONLUSION. 6... eee eee Pkt, 10 
“*Mrs.. Frew’s garden of ‘ Majestic’ 
Poppies, seed purchased from you, 
is a perfect beauty.’—J. H. FREw, 
Frewsburg, N. Y. 
POPPIES $s”; SHIRLEY. 
Charming dwarf varieties of the univer- 
sally esteemed Shirley Poppy, which is 
admittedly one of our best annuals, The 
seedlings grow into bushy little plants 
about 8 inches high only, with bright 
green laciniated foliage and all ablaze 
with innumerable single round-petaled 
flowers, 3 to 3% inches across, showing 
the most pleasing colors, shades and 
variegations of rose, chamois, scarlet and 
salmon, some having a distinct light bor- 
dering to the petals, all with yellow sta- 
mens and thrown wellup above thefoliage. 
A beautiful novelty for garden beds and 
borders. (Seecut.) Mixed Colors, Pkt. 10 
FOR OUR COMPLETE LIST OF POPPIES, SEE PAGE 113. 
