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HENDERSON'S 



SUPERIOR GIAUT PAHSIES. 



Years of scientific culture, hybridization and selection in raising Pansies 

 have gradually evolved a superior race of luxuriant, robust growth and deep- 

 rooting, drought-withstanding qualities; the flowers have also correspondingly 

 improved in size, substance, form and colors. At first there were only one or two 

 varieties in this class of pansies, but annually one or more varieties would reach 

 the goal of the Giants, until now we have such a complete variety of colors, that 

 we. this season, discard all ordinary-sized pansies, excepting those used in our 

 cheapest mixture, offered on page 7-'. 



"I tliink I have tried everybody's best pansies and none of them can hold a 

 candle to Henderson's big ones." GRACE POPE, Southwest Point, Canada. 



Per 1,000 

 seeds. 



Giant Trimardeau Pansies. Mixed Colors Pkt. .10 ...50 



" Atropurpurea iRexi. Velvety royal-purple 10. . . .50 



" Beauty. Claret, edged white, violet blotches 10... 50 



" Canary Bird. Pure, spotless yellow 10. . . .50 



" Emperor William. Indigo-blue, blotched black 10.... 50 



" Empress Victoria. Porcelain-edged violet. purple blotches .10... 50 



" Fire King. Crimson-purple and golden-yellow 10. ...50 



" King Of the Blacks. Lustrous jet-black 10. . . .50 



" Lord Beaconsfield. Lavender, heliotrope and purple 10. . . .50 



" Peacock (Gloriosa). Garnet, cream and blue 10. . . .50 



" President Carnot. White with large violet blotches 10... 50 



" Prince Bismarck. Golden-bronze 10. . . .50 



" Prince Charming. Rose-pink, veined rosy-lilac 10. . . .50 



" Snow Queen. Spotless, snow-white 10. . . .50 



" Striped. White, blue, violet and chocolate 10. ...50 



Violet Marbled White 10 50 



" Violet Marbled Yellow 10 50 



" Victoria. Ox-blood red 10 50 



" White Treasure. White with three violet blotches 10. . . .50 



" Yellow. Golden-yellow, three maroon blotches 10. . . .50 



Henderson's Collection of 12 Giant Pansies. 



This collection contains one packet each of 12 of the largest and most beautiful 

 Pansies in cultivation. Price, 75c. 



Henderson's MammotH Butterfly Pansies. 



THESE Pansies we are very proud of. We have sold them for a number of 

 years and receive hundreds of letters praising their superior beauty, sizo 

 and other merits; they were awarded a medal at the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, Chicago, where they competed with the best from all over the world. When 

 our unequaled collections of all types of pansies are in bloom we go over them, 

 daily and any plant producing flowers of superlative merit is removed to our 

 '"Mammoth Butterfly" plot of pansies, where nothing but the largest, hand- 

 somest and most perfect are allowed to remain. Consequently the seed is saved 

 from the greatest varieties of types, including only the best of Giant Cassiers, 

 Bugnots, Trimardeau, 5-blotched Odier, Giant English. French and German 

 Hybrids, etc., resulting in the greatest variety of coloring, marking, blotching, 

 veining, etc., for brilliant and attractive beds. (See cut.) Mixed Colors. 



Per 1,000 seeds, 75c Pkt. .25 



"/ have grown large pansies before, but never saw the equal of the 'Mammoth- 

 Butterfly,' the seed of which I got from you last fall. I have a large bed of them; the 

 plants are 20 inches high, and the stems of the blossoms 9 inches long, while the 

 blossoms themselves are simply monstrous, each one a broad expanse of beauty." 



THOMAS C. STARR, Newton, Mass. 



Henderson's Giant Rutfled Pansies. 



A REMARKABLE strain of Giant Pansies, the flowers of which are so large 

 and full that the broad petals seem to be "gathered'' to the stem, caus- 

 ing them to be undulated and fluted from centre to circumference, not 

 unlike "frilled - ' velvet. The unusual substance of the flowers, aided by these 

 corrugations, thus enables them to present bold, open and handsome faces, even 

 during windy or dry summer weather, when other pansy flowers flop or wilt. 

 The flowers are extraordinarily large and are borne on strong stems well above 

 the foliage; they are nearly all five-blotched on the "Odier ' pattern, and con- 

 tain rich combinations of coloring, including some new tints and blendings not 

 met with in other pansies. The plants are vigorous and large, and flower 



abundantly. Mixed Colors. Per 1.000 seeds. 7oc Pkt. 25 



New Giant Ruffled Red Pansy. Grand large frilled flowers, of bright deep 



red with a large dark maroon blotch on each petal 25 



New Giant Ruffled Violet. Magnificent fluted flowers, often 4 inches across. 



of a velvety indigo-violet, with large golden eye 25 



New Giant Ruffled Silver Edge. Large elegantly undulated flowers, broadly 



edged with silvery-white surrounding violet-blue blotches 25 



Henderson's Mammotli Parisian Pansies. 



THE Parisian Pansies are distinguished by their magnificent and varied col- 

 ors and strong markings. There is usually a large 'blotch' on each 

 of the five petals, with a surrounding band of some strikingly contrasting 

 color, over all of which is thrown a cobweb-like netting of yet another hue. The 

 combinations prevailing are composed of shades of cinnamon, violet, canary and 

 orange-yellow, black, garnet, light blue, indigo, cream, etc. These pansies have 

 been brought up to a high standard of excellence, the flowers being of fine sub- 

 stance, perfect shape and of mammoth size, measuring, when properly cultivated, 

 four inches across. A large number of these pansies are also very fragrant. 

 Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 75c Pkt. ■ 25 



Henderson's Giant Mottled Pansies. 



A DISTINCT new type of Pansies of greatest merit. The flowers are of 

 giant size and are borne in profusion — well-grown they measure 3 to 

 3 H inches across — and of most gorgeous effects, blotched, spotted, mar- 

 bled, veined, striped and blended, colors passing through reds, rose, pink, white, 

 purple, in beautiful and indescribable variegation. These pansies were a 

 a prize at the Paris Exposition. Mixed Colors. Per 1.000 seeds. 75c. Pkt. .25 



at the Columbian and 



The Superiority, of Henderson's Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, etc., hWhZ 65 Highest Awards rA-iiZ^Vt^iioM. 



