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Outstanding Recent Flower Seed Introductions 
; Of Proven Merit 
Many of these are All-American Award Winners and Some are 
Shown in Colors on Page 60 
CELOSIA, ROYAL VELVET (Annual) 
Honorable Mention 
1774 For cutting and garden use, this two-foot plant produces a large 
centre head and numerous large, long-stemmed cockcombs of 
a rich ruby red. -Combs are borne erect and foliage is bronzy 
green with reddish margin. Very striking, flowers on sym- 
metrical plants. 
Price, pkt., Z5c. 
CYNOGLOSSUM, FIRMAMENT (Annual) 
Bronze Medal 
2051B A welcome new dwarf type of Chinese Forget-me-Not. Trial 
reports show it a true and uniform stock, 15 to 18 inches tall and 
bushy, of rich blue color, always in garden demand, and should 
prove the most popular of all Cynoglossums. 
Price, pkt., 25c. 
HOLLYHOCK, INDIAN SPRING (Annual) 
Silver Medal 
2452 Actually blooming in five months from seed, with secondary 
blooms developing on side shoots, after main flowering stem is cut 
away. This species has semi-double to double fringed flowers 
in shades of pink, on four to five foot plants the past casas 
IPOMOEA, SCARLETT O’HARA (Annual) 
GOLD MEDAL (See page 60) — 
2499 The only Gold Medal winner in two years, this Morning Glory 
is entirely distinct from any other on the market. It is quite 
early to bloom, a carnelian-red, sometimes called carmine, self 
color, is of medium size, about three and a half inches across, 
blooms until frost and stays open longer than others. Blooms 
are found open even in afternoons. Foliage is quite distinct, 
each leaf with one large and two small side lobes. To insure good 
germination, either chip or soak the seed a few hours before 
planting. 
Price, pkt., 25c. 
PHLOX, DRUMMONDII 
SALMON GLORY (Annual) 
Silver Medal See page 59 
3397 This huge flowered variety has 
soft but rich salmon-pink florets 
with wide creamy-white eyes. This 
is a beautiful Phlox about ten inches 
high. It is a prolific bloomer of 
enormous florets and trusses. A 
grand novelty and worthy variety 
for bedding and cutting. 
Price, pkt. 25c. 
Fe N. J. 
Henderson’s Seeds 
Tested Seeds 
Our stocks of Flower 
Seeds are the finest ob— 
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Grounds at Red Bank, 
MARIGOLD GIGANTEA SUNSET GIANTS (Annual) 
(See page 60) 
2720 They are loosely formed, very full centred with broad, heavy, 
petals gracefully overlapping to make a flower of great depth five 
inches or more across. Sunset Giants is a mixture ranging through 
golden orange, deep golden yellow, light yellow, lemon yellow. 
and a delightful new shade of primrose. Height, 334 to 4 feet. 
Price, pkt., 15c. 
NIEREMBERGIA (Annua!) 
(See page 60) 
3054 Hippomanica. We can cordially recommend this beautiful 
little plant. Not more than 4 to 6 inches high, it forms a cushion 
of elegant light green foliage from which emerge single saucer 
shaped flowers of a delicate lavender hue, 1 to 144 inches acrass, 
adorned with a clear yellow eve. Of highly ornamental effect, 
we are sure that it will prove a gem as a pot plant and also suit- 
able for borders-and edgings. The bloom is very profuse and of 
a long-lasting character. 
Price, pkt., 25c. 
RUSSELL’S LUPINS (Perennial) (See page 60) 
Awarded a Gold Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society 
2672 The outstanding merits of these Lupins, are their wonderful. 
range of colors. The original type of Lupinus Polyhyllus and its 
older hybrids, produced flowers rather subdued in color. In 
this strain the colors are rich and varied, ranging through all 
the shades and tones of red, orange and deep yellow, as well as 
many intermediate tints and shades. The shapely spikes are 
borne clear above the foliage and are often from 3 to 3% feet 
in length. (Reselected seeds in originator’s sealed packets.) 
Mixed colors. 
Price, pkt. of 12 seeds, 25c; large pkts. of 50 seeds, 65c; 
120 seeds, $1.25; 250 seeds, $2.50. 
SCABIOSA, BLUE MOON (Annual) (See page 60) 
Honora Mention 
3652 Large deep lavender-blue flowers, wiry basal branching, erectly 
held stems. This is of the bee-hive shape, deep and wide, covered 
with petals and without the pincushion tops......-... Pkt. 25c 
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