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PETER HENDERSON & COS WHOLESALE TRADE LIST OF PLANTS. 



SINGLE WHITE PRIMROSE. 



SMILAX VINES. 



Familiar to every one. Easily grown if trained to strings or stakes. 

 Price, $i 50 per 100; strong plants from 3 in. pots. 



NEW FORCING VIOLET- Lady Hume Campbell 



Many growers who failed utterly with Marie Louise, have succeeded 

 with this variety, as up to the present time it has successfully withstood 

 attacks of the dreaded violet disease. Price (clumps), $8.00 per 100. 



VIOLET— Marie Louise. 



The well-known double purple variety. We offer strong healthy 

 plants, so that any amateur will have no difficulty in growing them. 

 Thousands of this peerless variety are grown for the flowers alone to 

 supply the cut flower markets of the country during the winter season. 

 Price, (clumps) $8.00 per 100. 



THE HARDY DOUBLE ENGLISH VIOLET. 



This surpasses the well-known " Marie Louise " Violet in richness of 

 of color, being many shades darker, and far excels it in its delightful 

 odor: this is one of its greatest merits. It is entirely free from dis- 

 ease of any kind, and will grow and bloom in any garden and in any 

 situation. It is entirely hardy and can be left out in the open ground 

 all winter. Nothing is more appropriate for cemetery plots than the 

 Hardy Double English Violet. This variety is very extensively grown 

 around Boston in cold frames for spring flowers. Price, (clumps) $16.00 

 per 100. ( Violets Beady about Sept. Jst.) 



Swainsonia Galegifolia Alba. 



A plant which is becoming very popular for house culture. Foliage 

 as graceful as an Acacia: flowers pure white, produced in sprays of 12 

 to 20 flowers each, and resembling Sweet I'eas. It is of the easiest cul- 

 ture and ever-blooming. It climbs readily and is splendid for the win- 

 dow garden, or it may be grown as a bush plant by trimming it back as 

 it grows. It bears neglect better than almost any plant we know, but 

 responds readily to good care. 3 in. pots, $1.00 per doz.; $8.00 per 100: 

 2 in. pots, $4.00 per 100. 



Chinese Primrose- 



For winter flowers there is no more desirable plant than the Chinese 

 Primrose. They are easily grown and flower incessantly throughout 

 the winter. Our plants" comprise all the shades of crimen, pink, 

 white and variegated Single flowers measuring 5 inches in circumfer- 

 ence. (See cut). Price, plants from 3 in. pots, $6.00 per 100. 



DWARF OTAHEITE ORANGE 



A dwarf Orange, which bears a string profusion of fragrant flowers 

 and edible fruit. One jf the most effective plants for the house. Those 

 we offer are strong plants, which will flower and bear fruit the coming 

 season. Price, 5Uc. each, $4.50 per doz. Strong 2 year plants. 



FERNS, ASSORTED. 



Our collection contains the choicest of the basket and vase sorts, 

 including Adiantuias, Vuneatium, Ballii, and Bubescens, BUris Herru- 

 lata, 8. Derma, S. Cristata, Argentea, and Bastata, Uymnogramrna, Neph- 

 rolepsis, Nephrodium . Onychium and Japonic am, Lygodium Hcandens. 

 Price, 3 in. pots, $6.00 per 100; 2 in. pots, »4.00 per 100. 



LARGE FLOWERING PANSIES- 



We are growing this season a very fine strain of pansy plants, largely 

 yellow, with a fair mixture of purple, blue, black, bronze, etc., from 

 seed of our own saving, and can unhesitatingly recommend them either 

 for winter or spring blooming. Price, $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1000. 



STROBILANTHUS DEYERIANTJS. 



A pl-mt that is bound to become popular in fine subtropical bedding. 

 It is of shrubby habit, growing to a height of 2 feet in one season, the 

 leave9 variegated with carmine pink and rich bronze, resembling in a 

 general way the well known Cissus discolor. 2 inch pots, $1.50 per doz. 

 $10.00 per 100. 



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