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HENDERSON'S EVER^BLOOMING 



Annual Hollyhocks. 



Every Garden may now be Glorified with Queenly 

 Hollyhocks Grown as Easily and Flowering as 

 Quickly from Seed as any Garden Annual 



The old favorite Hollyhock can 

 seldom be flowered from seed before 

 the second year, and as the young 

 plants frequently winter-kill, it has 

 limited the cultivation of the Hol- 

 lyhock to those willing to give the 

 young plants special winter care. 

 All of this bother is obviated in 

 growing our new hybrid Hollyhocks, 

 for the flower the first season from 

 seed, which may be started in the 

 house or hot bed from February 

 to April, or be sown in the open 

 ground in May. 



The plants from early-sown seed 

 set out in May commence blooming 

 in July, the May-sown in August, 

 and in either event they flower 

 profusely until frost. 



The flower buds, borne in clusters, 

 vary in maturity from the develop- 

 ing bud to the expanding flower; 

 this characteristic accounts for the 

 remarkably long flowering period, 

 and, besides, the plants continuously 

 push out side branches as well as 

 new spikes from the base, all of 

 which also develop their quota of 

 flowers almost ad infinitum. Open 

 flowers sometimes encircle the spikes 

 compactly — veritable columns of 

 bloom — but usually the flowers ex- 

 pand in irregular groups, wherever 

 the buds are strongest, in a charm- 

 ingly informal fashion. 



The diversity of forms and colors 

 among the flowers affords many 

 delightful surprises. Some plants 

 produce densely double flowers; 

 others semi-doubles, then single 

 sorts with small double centers, and 

 single saucer-shaped lowers; and all 

 flowers are usually very large, some 

 measuring five inches across. In 

 colors there is also great variety, 

 some richly brilliant, others dainty 

 and exquisite, then there are colors 

 and tints blended in charming com- 

 binations. There are maroon, black, 

 pink, chamois-rose, apricot with gar- 

 net throat, crimson, canary-yellow, 

 cerise, white, blush with white 

 throat, magenta, apricot with buff 

 margin, wine-red with white edge, 

 etc., etc. 



The plants are of vigorous and 

 healthy growth and n a t u r ally 

 branching in habit. The center 

 spike attains a height of from 8 to 

 10 feet, after which, the side shoots 

 from the base commence to length- 

 en, growing candelabra-like, 3 to 5 

 feet long. Henderson's Ever-blooming Annual Hollyhock 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR 



Double Hardy Hollyhocks 



Henderson's 



PRICE OF SEED 



Eve An b nu°ar in8 Hollyhocks. 



Grand Combination Mixture of doubles, semi-doubles and singles, including 

 all colors, shades and variegations. 



Per Pkt. {about 50 seeds), 15c; Per 500 Seeds, $1.00. 

 " I have never known such fine Hollyhocks as came from your Ever-blooming 

 kind, the seeds of which were planted in the open ground last April. They 

 began to flower the last of July and I had six, eight or ten spikes on nearly every 

 plant. One CANNOT praise them enough." 



HELEN J. RIPLEY, Brookline, Mass. 

 "Last year I got a package of your Ever-blooming Hollyhock seed from which the 

 plants commenced blooming the 4th of July and are blooming yet {January 

 13th); in fact, look as fresh and beautiful as when they first commenced." 



R. CHARLTON, Los Angeles, Cal. 



Received the Highest Award at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 



Grand summer and autumn flowering plants, bearing long spikes of double 

 flowers, 3 to 4 inches across. They are old inhabitants of our gardens, but are 

 now so improved in doubleness and enlarged in size, under special culture and 



hybridization, as to be revelations of 

 gorgeous beauty to those who have 

 not seen these improved sorts. 

 Hardy biennial, 5 to 8 feet high. 

 The seed we offer has been saved 

 from our unrivaled collection of 

 choicest improved double varieties. 



Double Blush Pkt. .10 



" Canary-yellow 10 



" Crimson 10 



Deep Rose 10 



Lavender io 



light Apricot 10 



Maroon io 



Pink io 



Purple 10 



Salmon 10 



" White io 



" " Violet Center. .10 



Extra Choice Double Mixed. 



From named varieties, 1,000 seeds, 



50c Pkt. .10 



IMPORTED COLLECTIONS Of 

 Double Hardy Hollyhocks. 



6 Separate colors 40 



12 Separate colors 75 



"The Hollyhocks from you last 

 season were much superior to any 

 ever seen here by any one. I have 

 never seen such magnificent Holly- 

 hocks either North or South." 

 W. H. CHADBOURN, 



Wilmington, N. C. 



Hollyhock, 



FRENCH GIANT. 



An improved French race, produc- 

 ing grand, tall spikes completely 

 encircled with magnificent flowers 

 of unusual size; several shades and 

 colors in mixture Pkt. .20 



IMPATIENS 

 HOLSTII 



Hybrids. 



Handsome plants from East Afri- 

 ca, forming bushes 14 to 2 feet high 

 and resembling in habit, foliage and 

 shape of flowers the popular Impa- 

 tiens Sultanii, but surpassing the 

 latter by far by its quicker and more 

 vigorous growth and its much larger 

 flowers and the greater quantity 

 produced. The flowers, 1J to If 

 inches across, are of red, violet, pink 

 and white with a red eye. The plants- 

 grow luxuriantly out-of-doors and 

 form effective and unusually showy 

 flower beds by their great abundance 

 of bloom. If grown in pots it will 

 be a first-class plant. Sown on heat 

 in March the seedlings may be 

 planted out end of May and will be 

 continuously in bloom from June 

 until the frost destroys them. 

 Mixed Colors Pkt. .25 



Lathyrus Latifolius. 



(Hardy Everlasting Pea.) 



Hardy climbers, growing 6 to 8 feet high when trained on a trellis; the flow- 

 ers are borne in large clusters. They are peculiarly adapted to rough places, 

 to scramble over rocks and bushes; splendid cut flower. 



Lathyrus Latifolius. White Pkt. .10 



" " Delicata. Rosy flesh color 10 



Red 10 



" " Mixed Colors 10 



'• " White Pearl. A magnificent new pearl-white, ever- 

 lasting pea, producing trusses of flowers twice as large as those of the type 

 and in profuse succession from June to September 25 



Cultural Instructions for Henderson's Annual Ever--blooming Hollyhocks on every Packet. 



