30 PETER HENDERSON & CO.— FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



Novelties and Specialties 



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ASTERS, NEW. Per Pkt. 



New Dwarf Pseony- Flowered Perfection 



(Black-Blue). This variety, and the succeeding 

 sort, " Rose and White," are new colors in a com- 

 paratively new race of Asters. "Black-Blue" 

 grows only 12 inches high, is of compact growth, 

 and produces incurved pa?ony-like blooms of 

 perfect form, in color deep indigo blue 50 



New Dwarf Paeony-Flowered Perfection (Rose 

 and White). The same dwarf habit peculiar to 

 "Black-Blue" characterizes this variety-the colors 

 of the flowers are rose and white combined 50 



New Washington (" Silver-Gray " and" White tinted 

 with Rose"). The Washington Aster is of quite 

 recent origin, and up to this time we have only 

 been able to offer two colors (White and Peach 

 Blossom), which will be found catalogued in the 

 General Flower Seed List. The new colors now 

 offered, " Silver-Gray," and " White tinted with 

 Rose," like the other varieties of Washington 

 Asters, produce flowers of enormous size, the 

 single flowers of which sometimes measure from 

 4 to 6 inches in diameter. Either variety 50 



ANGELONIA GRANDIFLORA ATRO- 

 PURPUREA. 



A distinct new variety, bearing long spikes of fragrant 

 brown- violet flowers 50 



CALENDULA OFFICINALIS " Meteor." 



This new Marigold bears in profusion large yellow flow- 

 ers, which are regularly and distinctly striped with 

 bright orange. As it blooms as freely as any of the 

 other Marigolds, it will prove to be a distinct and de- 

 cided acquisition 50 



CANDYTUFT, New Carmine. 



This splendid novelty is of dwarf, compact habit, and 

 when in flower presents a mass of vivid carmine 

 blooms of great beauty 25 



CARNATION, New Grenadin. 



A new variety that we are sure will prove of great value, 

 and eventually become a standard sort. Usually com- 

 ing perfectly true from seed, it blooms much earlier 

 than any other variety, and produces in the greatest 

 abundance perfectly double flowers, of good size, and 

 of the most vivid scarlet hue. The habit of the plant 

 is dwarf and compact 50 



COLEUS, New American Hybrid. 



We have this season saved seed from the very finest 

 new Hybrid Coleus, which is certain to produce splen- 

 did varieties. The seed of Coleus germinates very 

 easily, every seed coming up, if sown in a temperature 

 averaging 70 degrees. To such as have warm rooms 

 suitable, or a greenhouse, the seed may be sown at any 

 time, and if sown by January, finely-colored plants 

 will be got by May. To such as have not, the seeds 



Per Pkl. 

 can be sown in a hot-bed or cold frame in April or 

 May, and when of sufficient size, grown in pots or 

 planted out in the open ground. Seeds sown in April 

 will produce plants 3 ft. high and as wide by September. 

 The Coleus is now the most popular "leaf plant" 

 grown, in consequence of the wonderful diversity of 

 coloring it assumes 50 



DELPHINIUM CASHMERIANUM. 



In this new variety of Larkspur, flowers nearly equal in 

 size to the well-known D. Formosum are produced on 

 stems not exceeding 15 inches in height. The flowers 

 are fully an inch in diameter, and are usually of a 

 light blue purple, but vary in shade to mauve or dark 

 blue, and are produced in corymbs of six or more. The 

 plant is a native of the Himalaya Mountains, where it 

 is found at an elevation of 12,000 feet 50 i 





DIA.NTHUS " EASTERN QUEEN " AND " CRIMSON BELLE." 



DIANTHUS, New Japanese. 

 " Eastern Queen '' and " Crimson Belle." 



These popular forms of Z>. Heddcwigil are most distinct 

 and pleasing. "Eastern Queen "is beautifully mar- 

 bled ; the broad bands of rich mauve upon the paler 

 s-irface of the petals are very striking and pretty. 

 " Crimson Belle," as its name implies, is of a rich crim- 

 son color, flowers of very large size and substance, 



