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PETER HENDERSON & CO. -FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



COSMOS H1BRIDUS. 



COSMOS HYBRIDUS 



A magnificent race of plants which attain a height of nearly 

 five feet, and which in the fall months are literally covered 

 with flowers which closely resemble single Dahlias. The 

 original Cosmos consisted of only one color, but the flowers of 

 these new Hybrids are from one to two inches in diameter, and 

 range through all shades of rose, purple, flesh color and pure 

 white, and are excellent for cutting. At this time (October) we 

 have a row of these plants in full bloom, and they present a 

 gorgeous sight. They are easily raised from seed, and bloom 

 the first season. 



C. Bipinnatis Hybridus Grandiflorus, mixed, 25 cts. perpkt. 



NASTUKTirJI, ' EMPRESS OF INDIA." 



NASTURTIUM, "EMPRESS OF INDIA." 



The plant is of very dwarf habit, with dark tinted foliage, 

 while the flowers are of the most brilliant crimson color, so 

 freely produced that no other annual in cultivation can ap- 

 proach it in effectiveness. So highly was this Nasturtium con- 

 sidered, that the Royal Horticultural Society of London award- 

 ed it a first-class certificate, an award never given except to 

 novelties of undoubted merit. 15 cts. per packet. 



"SET 



NEW 



NEW TEN WEEKS STOCK "SNOWFT.AKE. 



FORCING TEN-WEEKS STOCK 

 "SNOWFLAKE." 



A dwarf growing, large flowered, wall-flower-leaved Stock, 

 which produces a vigorous main spike of uncommonly large 

 and very double snow-white flowers, and when fully grown, 

 numerous flowering side shoots also. "Snowflake" is the 

 earliest white, and one of the earliest of all Ten Weeks Stocks, 

 and is admirably adapted for forcing. Seed produces about 

 60 per cent, of plants having double flowers. 

 50 cts. per packet. 



TYPE OF IENDERSON S PREMIER PANSY. 



HENDERSON'S PREMIER PANSY. 



To describe the many and wonderful variety of markings the 

 flowers of this section present would be an almost endless task. 

 Many of the flowers are so marked as to resemble the finest 

 types of Fancy Pelargoniums, and contain those with ground 

 color light yellow, the lower petals blotched violet, the upper 

 petals carmine edged with white ; others, deep yellow for 

 ground color with dark centre blotch of crimson maroon ; and 

 still others with the ground color deep blue, yellow centre, sur- 

 rounded by a dark blotch: and other striking and beautiful types. 

 Price, 50 cts. per packet. 



"The White Plume Celery is certainly a most distinct variety, and, as I have shown, it merits culture for many reasons." 



J. MUIR. in ''Gardener's Chronicle," London, England. 



