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PETER HENDERSONS PLANT CATALOGUE. 



PHASEOLUS CARACALLA. iSnail Flower.) 



A rapid growing climber, with showy white and purple 

 flowers, resembling in their formation somewhat the appearance 

 of a snail-shell. 



Price, 50 cents each; §4.50 per d^zen. 





Type of Hardy Phlox. 



PHLOX, HARDY HERBACEOUS-Ceneral 



Collection. 



As this- beautiful genus of plants bloom well in partial shade, 

 they are, perhaps, the most valuable plants we cultivate for city 

 gardens or sbrubberies. Our collection embraces every color 

 from purest white to darkest crimson. They are entirely hardy 

 in all sections of the countiy. They bloom in immense trusses, 

 and therefore are well adapted for exhibition. The new sorts of 

 late importations are included in this collection. TVe do not enu- 

 merate the varieties as there are so many of them, and as newer 

 and better sorts are continually succeeding each other. We 

 have a collection of 40 distinct sorts, all very fine. Those only 

 wishing a dozen or so, can rely on getting just as good a variety, 

 or better, as if they ordered to special name — as it is almost im- 

 possible to decide upon the merits of varieties, by short des- 

 criptions. (See cut.) 



Price. 25 cents each; $2.25 per dozen; set of 40 distinct sorts 

 for $6.00. 



POLYGONUM FILIFORME FOL. VAR. 



A hardy herbaceous plant, the leaves of which are variegated white and green, bearing rosy 

 pink flowers in long racemes, which drop over the foliage, giving a very pleasing effect. It 

 grows to the heigbt^of two feet. 



Price, 30 cents each; §3.00 per dozen. 



POLYGONUM SCANDENS. 



A trailing or creeping plant, suitable either for baskets 

 or vases. The leaves are small, round, bright green; it 

 keeps its foliage well in the parlor or sitting-room in win- 

 ter, doing well in the shade. 



Price, 30 cents each: $3.00 per dozen. 



POSNSETTSA PULCHERR1MA, 



A tropical plant of gorgeous beauty, the bracts or 

 leaves that surround the flower being, in well grown speci- 

 mens, one foot in diameter, of the most dazzling scarlet. 

 In a hot-house temperature of 60 degrees, it begins to 

 bloom in November, and remains expanded until Febra- 

 aiy. This peculiarity of blooming in the heart of winter 

 makes it largely in demand for baskets and vases of cut 

 flowers at the holidays in our large cities. During the holi- 

 day week of last year we sold 3^000 heads of Poinsettia. 

 at an average of 16 cents each. 



Price, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1.00, and $3.00 each, accord- 

 ing to size. 



(For New Double Poinsettia, see Novelties, page 17.) Dwarf Pomegranate. 



DWARF POMEGRANATE. Punica Nana. 



A dwarf variety of Pomegranate. It has the peculiarity of flowering profusely, while not 

 more than a foot in height. Well grown specimens grow about six feet m height, by three feet 

 in diameter ; plants of this size in bloom are truly magnificent. The color of the flower is a pecu- 

 liar shade of orange scarlet, a very rare color, brilliant in the extreme. The plant blooms from 

 October to December. As it is deciduous, after blooming, it can be kept in a cellar or under the 

 stage of a greenhouse, until it is time to start it to grow again in May. In any of the States 

 where the thermometer does not fall to fifteen degrees below freezing, it is entirely hardy. 



Price, 30 cents each; $3.00 per dozen. 



POMEGRAKATE.-ln variety. 



Punica Granatum Alburn. White. | Punica Grranatum Album Plenum. 

 Price, 30 cents each: $8.00 per dozen. Three sorts for 75 cents. 



Double white. 



