PETER HENDERSON & CO., flEW YO^K-— FLOWER SEEDS. 



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A LIST OF FLOWER SEEDS, 



-<m STANDARD VARIETIES, 

 too well known to require extended description, 



is given on pages 90 to 97. 



SWEET ALYSSUM. 



These flower profusely throughout the season — thriving in flower garden, window boxes, 

 vases, etc.; also well adapted for ribbon lines ,and edgings; annual. 



Sweet Alyssnm. White, 1 foot PH. 5 



Tom Thumb Sweet Alyssnm. This is one of the finest plants for edgings and low 



beds, flowering in unparalleled profusion for months. } z foot 6 



HARDY ALYSSUM. 



Dwarf hardy little spreading plants, about a foot high ; very showy for permanent borders 

 and beds. 



Wiersbecki. Summer blooming ; yellow PH. 6 



Saxatile Compacta. Spring blooming ; dwarf, golden yellow. % foot. 6 



AMARANTHUS. 



Ornamental foliage and flowering annuals of striking effect; they are of rapid growth, easy 

 cnlture and very showy, with flower spikes or richly colored foliage. For semi-tropical gar- 

 dening they are unique and effective. 



Bicolor Ruber. Foliage green and dark red, tipped with yellow, 3 to 5 ft PH. 5 



Caudatns. (Love-lies-bleeding.) Long, dark red drooping flower spikes 6 



Firebrand. (A. Superbut.) Attains a height of six feet and a breadth of four to 

 five feet; well furnished with large, gorgeously colored leaves of a blood-red 



color, bordered with bright yellow 15 



Henderi. Beautiful drooping foliage of rosy carmine, orange, buff, golden yel- 

 low and olive green. 2 ft B 



Melancholicus Ruber. Eed foliage. 2ft 5 



Nobilis Pyramidalis. Crowned by an enormous flower spike, with numerous 

 branching side spikes. It grows about 12 feet in circumference, gracefully taper- 

 ing to a point. Height, 5 feet 10 



Salicifolius. (Fountain Plant.) Gracefully drooping, willow shaped leaves, 



brilliantly banded and tipped with orange, carmine and bronze 5 



Tricolor. (Joseph's Coat.) Leaves red, yellow and green. 3ft 5 



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 ANTIRRHINUM. 



(Snapdragon.) 

 For summer flower beds and borders these half-hardy perennials are very showy, 

 and flower from seed the first season. They grow 2 to 3 feet high, and are masses 

 of flowers. (See cut.) 



Tall Mixed Colors PH. 5 



Choice Striped Varieties, Mixed 10 



Tom. Thumb Varieties, Mixed. Growing only 1 foot high. (See cut.) 10 



Imported collection of Dwarf Antirrhinum in six separate sorts, 30 cents. 



AQUILEGIA. (Columbines.) 



Very handsome, ornamental hardy plants, growing 1 to 3 feet high ; of easy culti- 

 vation and bearing in profusion large flowers of novel shape and in great variety 

 of color. The stems rise about two feet high and carry from 60 to 80 blossoms. 



Double White Pkt. 5 Double Striped. Eed and white... PH. 5 



Rose-Colored. Charming rose-colored 10 



Golden Spurred. (Chrysantha.) Beautiful long yellow spurred flowers 10 



White Spurred. (Chrysantha alba.) Pure snow-white, with long spurs 15 



Grigor's Hybrid Glandulosa. Immense flowers of richestukraraarine blue, 



surmounted by five short petals of purest white with delicate azure blue spots. 25 



Single Mixed 5 Double Mixed 5 



For a Complete List of Flower Seeds, see pages 90 to 97. 



AGERATUM. 



Annuals, bearing in profusion clusters of feathery flowers ; suit- 

 able for pot culture in winter or bedding out in summer ; flowering 

 continually and profusely ; 2 feet high. 

 Blue..P/rf. 5 White 5 Dasseauxi. Rose 5 



TOM THUMB AGERATUM. 



Splendid very dwarf varieties for edgings and ribbon lines ; cov- 

 ered with large trusses of flowers until frost. Height, % ft. 

 TomThumb. Blue PH. 6 



White 6 



— Rose. A beautiful variety 10 



— — Yellow. Delicate chamois yellow 26 



Little Dorrit. Compact oval bushes, 6 inches high and a foot 



through ; a mass of blue flowers 10 



