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PETER HENDERSON & CO.. NEW YORK.— GENERAL WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



EcQily Heodersoi)/' 



Queen of White 

 Sweet Peas. 



The Queen of 

 "White Sweet Peas 



"EMILY HENDERSON." 



Price, per oz , 10c; per lb., 60c. 



A GLORIOUSLY beautiful acquisition of American 

 origin. Absolutely pure white, as clear 

 as alabaster and as lustrous as satin. The flowers of 

 remarkable Substance, are borne on long stiff 

 penduncles. arc extra large, with broad, round stan- 

 dards that sland up boldly w.thout reflex, curl or notch. 



The plants are robust, compact and branch- 

 ing, producing such a prodigal abundance of flowers that 

 the plants appear as if covered with snow. From one 

 plant, specially cultivated, we have cut in one season the 

 seemingly incredible number of r,o35 sprays of b oom. 

 In earliness, it outrivals all com- 

 petitors by nearly two weeks, and con- 

 tinues a veritable " cut-and-come-again " 

 to the end of autumn. The fragrance is 

 most delicious and distinct. 



For forcing under glass it is 

 particularly adapted. 



Our new White Sweet Pea, 

 " Emily Henderson." intro- 

 duced by us two years ago, has 

 now been thoroughly dissemi- 

 nated in both America and 

 Europe, and we congratulate 

 ourselves that it has given un- 

 bounded satisfaction, and has 

 received more flattering testi- 

 monials and enthusiastic praise than 

 any flower seed novelty introduced for 

 years, not only from private growers 

 and professional gardeners but from 

 the horticultural press of the world. 



Received an Award of Merit from the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of England— 

 June 26, 1894. 



Words of praise: Our limited space only 

 permits us to print the following, though we have 

 hundreds of testimonials of like purport : 



Mr. W. C. Egan, Sec'y Chicago Horticultural 

 Society* ivrites : 



I desire to state that the seeds of the Emily 



Henderson Sweet Pea germinatea freely and became 



robust plants. It was the first of many varieties to bloom, 



and was a most prof use bloomer during the hot weather* and, late 



in the fall, gave a great quantity of flowers, while the others were only 



furnishing scattering blossoms. It produced long stems, and the fiowers lasted 



better when cut — not fading away — than any other variety; in fact, 'with me it 



was the best Sweet Pea for garden culture that I have yet grown. 



SWEET PEAS IN MIXED COLORS. 



Per lb. ioo lbs. 



Eckford's Mixed, made up from over 30 of the choicest varieties So 45 §40 00 



Mixed Standard Sorts, mixed by ourselves from best named sorts, all bright colors 35 30 00 



§ Sweet Peas. >A ,§ Sweet Peas — Continued. Per lb. Per oz. 



Those prefixed with an asterisk 

 are Eckford's Large Flower- 

 ing Varieties. Per lb. Per oz. 

 Adonis, carmine rose . . $0 50 §0 10 

 American Belle, spotted, pkt., 5c. 

 •Apple Blossom, pink and blush. . 



Black brown, striped white 



Blanche Ferry, pink and white. . 



*31ushing Beauty 1 



Boreatt on. maroon 



-Bionze King, bronze, pink and white 



Butterfly, white and lavender 



Capt. Clarke or tricolor, white and helwtrope. . 



*Capt. of the Blues, purple and blue 



•Cardinal, brilliant s-arlet 



•Countess of Badnor lavender 



Crown Princess of Prussia, white suffused pink 



•Delight, white fluslied rosy pink 



*Dorothy I enant, lieliotrope 



•Duchess of Edinburgh, scarlet and crimson 



'^Duke of Clarence, plum claret 1 



* Emily Fckford, reddish lavender 1 



Emily Henderson, see description above 



*Empress of India, rosy pink and blush white. 



Fairy Queen, pinkish white 



•Firefly, brilliant carmine scarlet 1 



•Gaiety, white, lilac and rose striped 1 



•Her Majesty, rosy crimson 



*Ignea, scarlet 



•Imperial Blue, blue and heliotrope 



•Indigo King, indigo and purple 



Invincible Carmine, carmine scarlet 



Invincible slriped, white, striped crimson 



•Isa Eckford err amy white, suffused pink 



•Lady Beaconsfield, salmon, rose and yellow. . . 1 



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•Lady Penzance, rose, laced pink. .-. $3 00 $0 25 



-Lemon Queen, creamy white 



•Monarch, maroon and blue 



•Mrs. Gladstone, soft pink 



•Mrs. Bankey, (black seeded) white 



•Mrs. Eckford, fine yellow 1 



•Orange Prince, orange and pink 



*< ) vid , bright pink 2 



Painted Lady, pink and white 



•Peach Blossom, salmon pink per pkt., 13c. 



•Primrose, light yellow 



Princess Beatrice, blush pink 



* Princess of Wales, white, blue and heliotrope. . . 



Princess May, soft lavender 1 



PriDcess Victoria, pink and cherry rose 



♦Purple Prince, purple 



Purple black 



•Queen of England, yellowish white 



•Queen of the Isles, white and red striped 



Bed, striped white 



*Rising Sun, orange rose and blush 



•Royal Bobe, pink per pkt., 13c. 



Scarlet Invincible, crimson scarlet 



•Senator, striped, purple and w7tite 



•Splendor, coppery crimson and magenta 



•The Queen, pink shaded lavender 



•Venus, chamois rose 1 



Vesuvius, claret and purple spotted 



* Waverlv, claret and purple 



White. *. 



Collections of Sweet Peas. 



6 varieties, 15c. ; 12 varieties 25c. 



20 " 40c; 30 " 50c. 



Blue Ribbon Collection 75c. 



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