PETER HENDERSON & CO. 'S CATALOGUE OP SEEDS. 



African Marigold. 

 Page 22. 



Momordica balsamina. (Balsam Apple,} 

 Page 23. 



PICOTEE PINK. 



PER PKT. 



Well-known and highly valued plants, remarkable as well for their great beauty and delight- 

 ful fragrance, as for their easy culture, growing freely and flowering profusely, either 

 in pots, in the greenhouse, or in the open border, succeeding best in rich loamy soil. 

 Half-hardy Perennials. 



Picotee Pink. Saved from the finest varieties* 50 



PINK, CHINA, and Other Varieties. (See Dianthus.) 

 POLYANTHUS. 



Gay and profuse spring-flowering plants, adapted for pot culture, or the open border. Hardy 



Perennials. 



Polyanthus. Choice mixed, from best laced flowers. 

 Mixed Border Varieties 



POTENTILLA, 



25 



10 



Very handsome flowering hardy herbaceous plants exceedingly useful and ornamental in 

 mixed flower borders, lasting a long time in bloom. Hardy Perennials. 



Potentilla. Finest mixed, 1-J- ft 10 



Double Flowering. Finest mixed 25 



POPPY. 



Plants with large and brilliantly-colored flowers, growing freely in any common soil, and 

 producing a good and effective display in large mixed beds. Hardy Annuals. 



Poppy, Carnation-flowered. Double, mixed colors, 2 ft 5 



French (Papaver Bhceas.) Ranunculus-flowered, double mixed, 2 ft 5 



PORTULACA. 



These brilliant and popular hardy annuals are of the easiest culture, luxuriating in an ex- 

 posed, sunny situation, and producing throughout the summer their various colored 

 flowers in the greatest profusion. The double Portulaca is one of the most showy 

 annuals in cultivation. 



Portulaca Bedmani. A beautiful novelty in this popular and well-known annual. Flow- 

 ers large pure white, with a reddish purp^ eye .' . 10 



Golden Striped. A very distinct and strikingly new variety. Flowers of a light 



straw-color, with golden or orange stripes 10 



New Pink. This is a great improvement on the common single Portulaca. The 



flowers are nearly twice the size of the old variety, of a delicate pink shade 10 



■ Splendid Mixed Single. All colors 5 



■ Grandiflora Double. Finest mixed. These are unsurpassed for brilliancy of color 



by any annuals now grown. (See cut.), 15 



