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FLOWER SEEP SPECIALTIES 



Sensational Flower Seed Novelty, 



HENDERSONS 



FROM THOSE WHO HAVE GROWN 

 HENDERSON'S EVER-BLOOMING HOLLYHOCKS: 



"Your Ever-blooming Hollyhock is a derided ac- 

 quisition to us here in New England, where the Holly- 

 hock is scarcely of reliable hardiness. In future, ice 

 can raise them annually from seeds ensuring a fine 

 display of bloom. We have a fine show of them now 

 f rom seeds purchased from you in the sirring and intend 

 I o make a special feature of them another season." 



E. O. ORPET, South Lancaster, Mass. 



"Your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks are a great ad- 

 dition to our herbaceous borders. The spikes of flow- 

 ers were thrown up continuously the first year in a 

 pleasing variety of colors and not a sign of disease was 

 shown." 



JOSEPH DEXTER, Gardener to 

 WHITELAW REID, Esq., White Plains, N. Y. 



"I am well phased with your new Hollyhocks: 

 there are some unusually rich colors among them. 1 

 consider that they have two distinct advantages over the 

 older types — flowering in about three months from seed, 

 and freedom from disease." 



WM. TURNER, Oceanic, N. J. 



"I sowed one packet of your Ever-blooming Holly- 

 hocks and find they come fully up to your statements. 

 I'll have more of them another season." 



THOS. MURRA Y, Gardener to 

 P. LORILLARD. Esq., Tuxedo Park, N. J. 



"Your floral novelty. Ever-blooming Hollyhocks, 

 are rightly named. We were agreeably surprised 

 with their rapid growth, early and continuous blooming, 

 and unexpected variation from ordinary Hollyhocks 

 was the putting forth of blooming laterals until checked 

 by frost." 



GEO. W. PECK, Roselle Park, N. J. 



" The Ever-blooming Hollyhocks flowered practically 

 all summer. You have in this new race one of the most 

 desirable novelties sent out in years. We have not had 

 any blight on your ever-blooming type, although our 

 perennial varieties in the same garden were almost de- 

 stroyed by it." WM. N. CRAIG, Supt. Gardener. 

 F. L. AMES' ESTATE, "Long Water Gardens," 

 North Easton, Mass. 



'/ was much pleased with the Ever-blooming Holly- 

 hocks I had from you last season. The ;'/<7«rs 

 commenced to bloom in August and bloomed until cut 

 off by frost." GEO. A. PITT, Portland, Me. 



' ' Your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks are certainly a great 

 acquisition; they commenced flowering in July, and are 

 still throwing flowers; very fine varieties are amongst 

 them." THOMAS TALBOT, Gardener to 



Hon. L. P. MORTON, Rhinecliff, N. Y. 



"We have a row of your Ever-hlooming Hollyhocks, 

 and consider them a marked improvement on the old 

 varieties:' F. MANGOLD, Gardener to 



Miss HELEN GOULD, Irvington, N. Y. 



"I think your Ever-blooming Hollyhock is a grand 

 acquisition. I had a good many in bloom July 8th 

 and they have been in bloom continuously ever since; 

 there is a great variety of charming colors, with a large 

 percentage of double and semi-double flowers" 



JOHN MARSHALL, Gardener to 

 PERRY BELMONT, Esq., Newport, R. I. 



Ever= Blooming j^mml Hollyhocks. 



Shown in colors on the opposite page. 



Every Garden may now be glorified with this stately Queen of Flowers, 



grown as easily and flowering as quickly from seed 



as any garden annual/ 



HEALTHY, LUXURIANT GROWERS, 



BLOOMING IN EXUBERANCE FROM JULY UNTIL FROZEN. 



A RIOT OF DIVERSIFIED FORMS AND COLORS. 



ARISTOCRATIC DOUBLES. PICTURESQUE SEMI-DOUBLES. 



AESTHETIC SINGLES. 



^^HE Hollyhock has for generations held its proud position as "Queen of the Garden." its stately 

 IL beauty commanding admiration in almost any situation assigned it; the tall flower-encircled spires 

 punctuate the monotony of garden level with a blaze of color. 



These old favorites, however, 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 Hollyhock to those willing to give 

 the young plants special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in growing our new hybrid Holly- 

 hocks, for they flower the first season from seed, which may be started in the house or hotbed 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 developing hud 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 expand in irregular groups, wherever the buds are strongest, in a charmingly in- 

 formal fashion. 



The marvellous diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many delightful surprises and 

 is not the least of the charms of these meritorious Hollyhocks. Some plants produce densely double 

 flowers without guards, others with guard petals; there are semi-doubles, then single sorts with small 

 double or anemone-flowered centres, and single saucer-shaped flowers. Some with smooth-edged petals, 

 others flounced, fringed, etc., etc., and all flowers are usually very large, some measuring five inches across. 

 In colors there is also great variety, some richly brilliant, otlters dainty and exquisite, then there are colors 

 and tints blended in charming combinations. There are maroon, black, pink, chamois-rose, apricot with 

 garnet throat, crimson, canary-yellow, pink with claret throat and veins, blush with carmine lacings, 

 cerise, white, geranium-scarlet, 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 naturally branching in habit. The centre spike, 

 if not pinched, attains a height of from 8 to 10 feet, after which — if permitted — the side shoots from the 

 base commence to lengthen, growing candelabra-like 3 to 5 feet long. The plants are amenable to training, 

 that is, the main stem may be kept at any desired height by pinching out the tip, or it may be kept low 

 and induce earlier development in the side branches, thus forming a bush. 



Of course, these Hollyhocks, making such luxuriant growth in such a short time and blooming so 

 abundantly, should be sustained for best and continuous results by planting them in depply dug, thoroughly 

 enriched soil; liberal watering in dry weather and a mulching of rotted manure late in the summer will 

 conserve soil moisture, stimulate the plants, and will repay the trouble in glorious autumn results. 



-Henderson's Euer-blooming Jtnnual Hollyhocks 

 in Grand Combination Mi-Kture. 



PRICE OF SEED. 



Doubles, semi-doubles and singles, including all colors, shades and variegations. 

 Per pkt. (about SO seeds), 2Sc; Per IOO Seeds, 40c; Per 1,000 Seeds, $3.00. 



WE FURNISH COMPLETE CULTURAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THESE HOLLYHOCKS WITH EVERY PACKET OF SEED. 



