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These flowers we selected at our trial 

 grounds this summer as being 1 of especial 

 merit— and worthy of being shown on a col- 

 ored plate ( see opposite i . They all bloom the 

 first season from seed sown in the spring, 

 and are thrifty growers, bloom continuously 

 and profusely, and will give a brilliant and 

 ® \£XdS varied display in the summer garden. 

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Gloriosa." 



Xo. 6 on colored plate opposite. 



A new annual-flowering garden pink, unique and beautiful; the flowers. 2 to 3 

 incheH across, have fringed edges. The coloring is white, velvety crimson and 

 pink hieroglyphic-ally splashed, striped and blotched. The plants grow about 8 

 inches high and commence blooming from spring-sown seed in July, the flowers 

 literally smothering the plant with a wealth of coloring until frost. 

 Price per packet, 15 cents. 





Henderson's 



DOLLY VflRDEN 

 POPPY. 



No. 1 on colored plate opposite. 

 A new strain of double, 6emi -double and sin- 

 gle Poppies of remarkable beauty ; the plants are 

 sturdy, branching bushes about 15 inches high, 

 prodiicingfor months myriads of exquisitecrushed 

 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 forgarden beds; mixed colors. 

 Price per packet, 15 cents. 



Double Miniature BusH Sunliower. {He, t^ c pir ri - 



Xo. 2 on colored plate opposite. 

 An annual variety forming bushes about 3 feet high and 3 feet through. The 

 numerous branches from base to summit bear very double golden yellow flowers 

 about 3 inches across; it flowers continuously and profusely the first season, 

 from July until killed by frost. It makes a very showy garden plant, not unlike 

 the hardy perennial variety Helianthus Multiflorus fl. pi. 



Price per packet, 15 cents. 



Giant) DrOW3lN3. - Vo - 3 °° colored plat* opposite. 



A most beautiful summer-floweri'-pplantfor flower bedsin summer and equally 

 valuable for pot culturein winter. The plants grow about 1 ft., are bushy and bear 

 continuously large flowers, from 1 to 2 inches across, of brilliant indigo blue en- 

 livened with a white throat. People who are familiar with the old favorite " Blue 

 Amethyst" will scarcely recognize this grand new variety as belonging to the 

 same family. " Price per packet, 15 cents. 



EscHsGlioltzia "Satin BlustT 



This is a very charming variety of the "California Poppy," the flowers. large, 

 round and saucer shaped, are of a beautiful satiny, silvery white inside and are 

 tinged with blush pink outside. This variety is a very profuse bloomer ; plants 

 from need sown in the open ground in May were covered with flowers and buds 

 from July until frost. They form compact mounds about 1 foot high by 18 

 inches across — a highly satisfactory garden annual. 



Price per packet, 15 cents. 



.Vo. 4 on colored plate 

 opposite. 



Pentstemon "Sensation." 



Xo. 5 on colored plate opposite. 



A new Giaut Gloxinia- flowered type, blooming early the first season from 

 spring-sown seed. The graceful spikes, about 2 feet high, are bedecked with 

 flowers, two inches across, from July until frost. The colors and markings are 

 gorgeously varied from pink to scariet and maroon, all beautifully blotched and 

 veined with other colors; a large white throat further enlivens and intensifies the 

 surrounding colors. The plants are healthy vigorous growers of bushy habit 

 and not troubled with insects. 



Price per packet, 15 cents. 



"Daybreak" flster. 



Xo. 7 on colored plate opposite. 

 A most beautiful bushy, branching Aster, growing about 2 feet high with 

 large double flowers composed of incurved petals, almost as regularly placed as 

 in a Dahlia. The coloring is an exquisite tint of rosy shell pink, the flowers are 

 borne upright on stiff long stems, and the plants in bloom are charming beyond 

 description and for cutting purposes there is not a finer Aster grown. 

 Price per packet, 15 cents. 



" Silvery White" Mianonette. v " s °op^ ptefe 



This is not only the best WHiTE-flowering annual Mignonette grown, but one 

 of the best of any color for garden cultivation. We were very much pleased with 

 it in our trial grounds the past summer, though the unprecedented drought 

 when other varieties went to seed and died off, this variety continued to grow 

 and bloom, and was still blooming when our beds were plowed up October 

 15th. The tapering spikes closely filled with flowers are freely and continuously 

 produced. The fragrance is unusually powerful and delicious. 

 Price per packet, 15 cents. 



Yellow Flowering Japanese Morning Glory. 



Xo. 9 on colored plate opposite. 

 A large yellow-flowering Morning Glory is a rarity, and has never been grown 

 to our knowledge outside of the Japanese Imperial Gardens, until we secured a 

 few of the seeds three years ago. The canary yellow flowers, 2 inches across, are 

 produced in wonderful freedom. The foliage is also unique and attractive, the 

 deeply lobed leaves are mottled green, silver and yellow. It grows about 10 feet 

 high, and is very attractive trained on a trellis. 



Price per packet, 15 cents. 



Giant Petunia "Splendora." 



Xo. 10 on colored plate 

 opposite. 



A new variety of incomparable beauty and size; the flowers, 4 to 5 inches 

 across, are of the richest crimson lake color imaginable with a deep pure white 

 throat not blended in to the red. but sharply defined, giving the flower a strik- 

 ingly handsome appearance, and the petals are so full that they appear like 

 crumpled velvet. The plants are luxuriant growers and flower freely all sum- 

 mer long; a grand garden Petunia and equally valuable for pot culture. 

 Price per packet, 15 cents. 



Tom Thumb Zebra Zinnias. 



Xo. 11 on colored plate 

 opposite. 



The plants are bushy and compact, only about 8 inches high.bearingperfectly 

 formed very double flowers of medium size but in great abundance. These 

 flowers are of varied colors striped, such as yellow, striped crimson, white 

 striped red. etc. Sometimes a plant will produce Howers all yellow, and others 

 all red. Some flowers will be half yellow and the other half red, etc., a bed of 

 these Zinnias thus forming a mass of unique and charming effect. 

 Price per packet, 15 cents. 



.Vo. 12 on colored plate 

 opposite. 



Giant Crimson HyaGinth Bean. 



One of the showiest annual climbers in our trial grounds the past summer; 

 the Tines grow about 1 feet high, branching out from bottom to top. forming a 

 network of vines which are clothed with luxuriant dark green leaves having red 

 ribs and veins, the leaf stalks are purplish maroon. The Sweet l'ea like flowers, 

 borne in unusually long clusters as they age, change from blush to rose then car- 

 mine, and at last purplish red. Some of the flower stems were over a foot long 

 with blossoms in all stages of maturity. The flowers are followed by bronzy 

 purple seed pods, the whole forming a mass of varied color and beauty from 

 July until frost. Price per packet, 15 cents. 



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Price ol Henderson's " Novelty Collection o? Flower Seeds," 



packet each of the 12 varieties described 

 above, and shown in colors opposite. 



$1.50. 



