HENDERSON’S EVER-BLOOMING HOLLYHOCKS. 
“Your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks are a great addition to 
our herbaceous borders and are rightly named. The spikes of 
flowers the first year were thrown up continuously in a pleasing 
variety of colors, and not a sign of disease was shown. We shall 
watch with interest your development of this new type.”’ 
JOSEPH DEXTER, Gardener to 
WHITELAW REID, Esq., ‘‘ Ophir Hall,’ White Plains, N. Y. 
“‘T sowed one packet of your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks and 
find they come fully up to your statements. I'll have more of 
them another season.”’ THOS. MURRAY, Gardener to 
P. LORILLARD, Esq., Tuxedo Park, N. J. 
“The Ever-blooming Hollyhocks flowered practically all 
summer. Among the doubles there are some specially fine ones, 
though we do not object to the singles. We believe you have in 
this hew race one of the most desirable novelties sent out in 
years. We have not had any blight on your ever-hblooming type, 
although our perennial varieties in the same garden were almost 
destroyed by it. We greatly appreciate this novelty and predict 
great popularity for it.’’ WM. N. CRAIG, Supt. Gardener, 
fF. L. AMES’ ESTATE, “‘ Long Water Gardens,” 
North Easton, Mass. 
“Your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks are certainly a great 
acquisition; they commenced fiowering in July, and are still 
throwing flowers; very fine varieties are amongst them.” 
THOS. TALBOT, Gardener to 
Hon. L. P. MORTON, “ Ellerslie,’’ Rhinecliff, N. Y. 
“We have a row of your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks, and 
consider them a marked improvement on the old varieties.” 
OVA F. MANGOLD, Gardener to 
ta Miss HELEN GOULD, Irvington, N. Y. 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
NOUELTIES #4 SPECIALTIES. 
Healthy. 
A Marvel of Diversified and Surpassingly Beautiful Colors. 
Aristocratic Doubles. 
HENDERSON’S IMPROVED HYBRID 
Ever-Blooming Hollyhocks. 
(SHOWN IN COLORS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE.) 
Flower the same season from Spring-sown seed! 
Blooming in Exuberance from July until frozen. 
Luxuriant. Picturesque. 
Graceful Semi-doubles. Aesthetic Singles. 
Every Garden may now be enriched with this stately Queen of Flowers, 
grown as easily and flowering as quickly as any garden annual. 
The Hollyhock has for generations held its proud position as ‘‘Queen of the Garden,” 
its stately beauty commanding admiration in almost any situation assigned it; the tall 
flower-encircled spires punctuate the monotony of garden level with a blaze of color, 
These old favorites, however, can seldom be flowered from seed before the second year, and 
as the young plants frequently winter-kill, it has limited the cultivation of the Hollyhock to 
those willing to give the young plants special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in 
growing our new hybrid Hollyhocks, for they flower the first season from seed, which may be 
started in the house or hotbed from February to April, or be sown in the open ground in May. 
The plants from early-sown seed set out in May commence blooming in July, the May-sown 
in August, and in either event they flower profusely until frost. 
The flower buds borne in clusters vary in maturity from the developing bud to the 
expanding flower; this characteristic accounts for the remarkably long flowering 
period, and, besides, the plants continuously push out side branches as well as new ° 
spikes from the base, all of which also develop their quota of flowers almost ad 
infinitum. Open flowers sometimes encircle the spikes compactly—veritable columns of 
bloom, but usually the flowers expand in irregular groups, wherever the buds are 
strongest, in ‘a charmingly informal fashion. 
The marvellous diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many 
delightful surprises and is not the least of the charms of these meritorious 
Hollyhocks. Some plants produce densely double flowers without guards, others 
with guard petals; there are semi-doubles, then single sorts with small double or 
anemone-flowered centres, and single saucer-shaped flowers. Some with smooth-edged 
petals, others flounced, fringed, ete., etc., and all flowers are usually very large, 
some measuring five inches across. In colors there is also great variety, some 
richly brilliant, others dainty and exquisite, and in charming combinations. 
The plants are of vigorous and healthy growth and naturally branching in habit. 
The centre spike, if not pinched, attains a height of from 8 to 10 feet, after which—if 
permitted—the side shoots from the base commence to lengthen, growing candelabra- 
like 8 to 5feetlong. The plants are amenableto training, that is, the main stem may 
be kept at any desired height by pinching out the tip, or it may be kept low and 
induce earlier development in the side branches, thus forming a bush. 
Price of JSeed—_Henderson’s Improved Hybrid Hollyhocks. 
Grand Combination Mixture (doubles, semi-doubles 
and singles), including all colors, shades and variegations, 
Per pkt. (about 40 seeds), 25c.; Per 100 Seeds, SOc.; Per 1000 Seeds, $4.00. 
We also offer a limited quantity of seeds in colors, saved from a few prize plants, 
but to give us a sufficient quantity, we have had to blend them into the under- 
mentioned color groups, including exclusively the finest of the doubles, semi-doubles 
and singles. The purchaser, however, must expect some variation as seeds from new 
hybrid plants tend to sport a little. 
Black, purple and maroon shades, z s s z Pkt. 25ce. 
Garnet, ruby and claret shades, = Fe * . SS 25c. 
Crimson, scarlet and carmine shades, Fa . s ‘6 6 2S5ce. 
Rose, cerise and pink shades, z z * * “¢  625e. 
Blush, white and cream shades, . ’ . s “« 625¢c. 
Yellow, salmon and apricot shades, 2 z Su? SCs 
THE 1 packet of seed each of 
Collection the above six separate bl. OO 
color groups, 
gw- We furnish complete Cultural Instructions for these Hollyhocks with Every Packet of Seed. 
