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PETER HENDERSON'S CATALOGUE. 



HARDY GARDEN CARNATIONS. 



CARNATION-Hardy Garden Varieties. 



Very attractive garden plants: perfectly hardy. All shades 

 ■of white, pink, crimson, violet, maroon, etc. We have a superb 

 lot of these satisfactory plants, and can highly recommend 

 them. All these carnations have exquisite clove fragrance, 

 -which, with their rich and varied shades of color, make them 

 Invaluable for summer bouquets. (See cut.) 



10 cts. each: $1.00 per dozen. 



CAMELLIA JAPON- 

 ICA. 



Double White. $1.00 to 



$3.00 each. ■ 

 Colored. In variety, 50 cts. 



to $1.50 each. 



CAMKLLIA. 



SHRUBBY CALCEOLARIAS. 



(Seepage 107.) 



CLERODENDRUM BALFOURI. 



A stove-climber of great beauty. The flowers, which are of a 

 bright scarlet, are encased by a bag-like calyx of pure white; 

 the trusses or panicles of flowers are upwards of six inches in 

 width, and, when trained upon the trellises, and hanging down, 

 have a rich and elegant appearance; continually in bloom. 

 30 cts. each; $3.00 per dozen. 



CANNA INDICA. 



Plants used largely in sub-tropical gardening, for the grand 

 effect which their rich and varied colored leaves produce. The 

 sorts below named are the finest we can select from our 

 immense collection, old and new. They combine the most 

 striking tropical foliage with flowers many of them equal to 

 Gladiolus. 



Discolor Violacea. Very dark chocolate foliage. 



iMarechal Vaillante. Foliage light bronze; flowers orange. 



Compacta. Pea greeu foliage; flowers canary yellow. 



Iraperator. Dark green foliage; large scarlet flowers. 9 feet. 



Creole. A very fine dark variety. 6 feet high. 



Excelsa Zetorina. Dark foliage; flowers carmine. 



Erin. Foliage green; orange and scarlet flowers. 4 feet high. 



Oreole. Deep green foliage; flowers deep orange color. 6 feet. 



Excelsa IT ana. Very dark foliage. 5 feet high. 



Brenning'si. Foliage deep green, striped whit- : flowers rose. 



Tricolor. Crimson, green and bronze. 3 feet high. 



Pius IX. Flowers yellow and crimson. 



Ehemani. 30c. (See page 106.) 



Luke Blackburn. 50c. (See page 106.) 



15c. each; $1.50 per doz., except where noted 

 Full set of 14 for $2.00. 



COLEUS. 



This beautiful family of ornamental foliage plants has been 

 steadily iucreasing the beauty and diversity of its varieties ever 

 since its introduction. We now have the most gorgeous shades 

 of pink, maroon, rose, violet, yellow, crimson, etc. Coleus are 

 one of our specialties and our collection is unrivaled. We name 

 the " 12 best," but can supply 50 other varieties if desired : 



Kirkpatrick. Large leaf, blotched in the centre like Gera- 

 nium Happy Thought. 



Hero. Chocolate maroon. 



Verschaffeltii. Eich velvet crimson. 



J. Burnsham. (New.) Yellow and crimson ; spotted. 



Midnight. Dark maroon, flamed with crimson. 



Ruby. Eich crimson maroon ; centre dark rose color, beauti- 

 fully fringed edges ; a superb variety. 



Queen of the Lawn. Dazzling carmine, rimmed with vel- 

 vety maroon. 



Leaves of Autumn. Large foliage ; crimson, yellow, pink 

 and bronze. 



Golden Bedder. (See special description.) 



Firebrand. Dark crimson, shaded garnet ; extra fine. 



Yellow Bird. Clear golden yellow ; strong grower. 



J. H. Slocomhe. Maroon, edged old gold and yellow. 

 10 cts. each ; 75 cts. per dozen ; $6.00 per 100. 

 Set of 13, including the "Shah " (see page 125), for $T,.'50. 

 For superb New Coleus see page 107. 



I wish to thank you for those hardv Garden Carnations you sent me last spring. They are now all in bloom, and I must say they are mag- 

 nificent. Out of the 3 dozen plants I got all shades of color, pink, crimson, rose, blush, etc. All were double and exquisitely fragrant. 



P. H. DAVIS, Richmond, Va. 



