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PETER HENDERSON & CO.— FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



TTPE OF HENDERSON S PREMIER PANSY. 



HENDERSON'S PREMIER PANSY. 



A distinct and beautiful class of Pansy that we offered to our 

 •customers last year for the first time, and we know that it 

 gave the most unqualified satisfaction. To describe the many 

 and wonderful variety of markings they 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, surrounded by a dark blotch, etc., etc. 

 Price, 50 cts. per packet. 



PETUNIA FIMBR1ATA DELICATA. 



The varieties we already possess of single fringed Petunias 

 •re very popular, and the new variety now offered will be found 

 a most beautiful addition. The flowers are white, while the 

 markings of the throat, especially the deeply fringed petals, are 

 •of a delicate shade of rosy violet. 



50 cts. per packet. 



PETUNIA, LARGE FLOWERING 



YELLOW-THROATED. 



(Petunia Grandiflora Intus Aurea. ) 



These Petunias form a class of rare beauty and come true 

 from seed. The characteristics are very large sized flowers of 

 perfect form, with a broad and deep yellow throat, veined very 

 much after the manner of the Salpiglossis. 

 75 cts. per packet. 



NEW SWEET PEA, "ADONIS." 



We have seen this very pretty variety in bloom, and can cor- 

 roborate the introducer's statement that it is a distinct and de- 

 cided acquisition to the Sweet Pea family. The blossoms are of 

 a lovely rosy pink shade and contrast well with the older colors 

 so long in cultivation. 



25 cts. per packet. 



SCHIZANTHUS PINNATUS ROSEUS. 



This novelty is quite distinct from other Schizanthus, bearing 

 flowers of a delicate rose color, shading off at the centre to 

 white, while the upper petal is almost entirely covered with a 

 blood red spot. This beautiful annual will be found most use- 

 ful for masses and borders. 



25 cts per packet. 



SALVIA, "BLUE BEARD." 



A hardy annual, new and very distinct. Makes a plant a foot 

 and a half high, of very branching habit, with square stems and 

 sage-like leaves. The spikes are well furni-hed at the apex with 

 a quantity of brilliant, mauve purple bracts, which give the 

 plant a most unique appearance. The flowers are produced in 

 a series of whorls, are small, lip-shaped, of a bright purple 

 color, with lower lip white. 



50 cts. per packet. 



8E8BANIA GRANDIFLORA. 



SESBANIA GRANDIFLORA. 



A magnificent novelty from Western Australia, and a plant 

 well suited for green-house culture. The pure white flowers 

 are of the largest size, being individually fully three inches 

 long, of the odd and peculiar form shown in the above illus- 

 tration. 



75 cts. per packet. 



VERBENA HYBRIDA COCCINEA 



FOLIIS AUREIS. 



(Yellow-leaved Verbena). 



A new variety with golden yellow foliage, which forms a 

 striking contrast with the bright scarlet of the flowers. The 

 introducer says that the seed is smaller than those of other 

 varieties and reproduces the variety exactly. 

 25 cts. per packet. 



Charleston, W. Va., June 23d, 1884. 

 I have thoroughly cleared ray rose bushes of Aphis, Slugs, Red Spider, etc., and also my young apple and pear trees, whose young snoots 

 were literally covered with Aphis, by the use of your " Insect Death Powder, applied with the Powder Gun, gotten from you ten days ago 



D. L. RUFFNEE. 



