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HENDERSON'S NEW PETUNIAS, " GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA.' 



fiende^son's flem Petunias, "Giants of California.' ' 



A Californian strain of incomparable beauty, size and luxuriance. Most of the flowers are exquisitely ruffled or fringed on the edges, and are of enormous dimensions 

 (i to 5 inches across), but their great merits lie in the tremendous varieties of colors, markings, veinings, blotchings and stripings, in the most grotesque and beautiful 

 combinations; some with charming deep throats of yellow, white, black, green or maroon, running off into intricate veins. Some of the colors are rich and gorgeous 

 and others of lovely delicate shades. (See cut.) 



Giant "Midnight." The coloring of this variety is rich beyond description; 

 dark claret crimson with a surface bloom like that of a purple plum. In the 

 sunlight it looks like crumpled velvet. Immense flowers, i to 5 inches across, 

 with fringed edges and deep, intricately veined throats Pkt. 25 



Giant " Aurora." The handsomest of all Petunias, a particularly lovely shade 

 of rosy pink, with a distinct red band around the deep, exquisitely 

 penciled white throat; the flowers are of immense size and perfect 

 shape 26 



Giant "Snowstorm." Extra large flowers, 4 to 5 inches in diam- 

 eter, of splendid substance ; purest glistening white with ruffled or 

 fringed edges ; deep yellow throat 25 



THE COLLECTION, ONE PKT. EACH OF THE SIX VARIE- 

 TIES, FREE BY MAIL, FOR $1.00. 



Giants of California. Mixed varieties, including many exquisite 

 sorts Pkt. 25 



Henderson's flem Petunias, 



"DOUBLE GIffflTS Of CRuIFOlfllliL" 



As large as Hollyhocks ; as double as double can be, with edges finely 

 fringed, petals fluted and crinkled, intensifying and varying the colors 

 with high lights and dark shadows, bringing out a richness and effect 

 unmatched by crumpled velvet, which the flowers resemble. There is a 

 variety of colors— selfs, blotched, veined, margined, etc.; in short, 

 these double Petunias are unmatched by any other strain in the world. 

 Henderson's New "Double Giants of California," have been evolved 

 by infinite pains in hybridizing by a most expert Petunia enthusiast 

 in California, the came one who brought out the single-flowering 

 varieties offered above. 



Although this magnificent strain of double Petunias has been brought 

 up to the pinnacle of perfection, yet our customers must not expect the 

 seeds to produce over fifty per cent, of double-flowering plants ; this, 

 however, is an average much greater than is ever actually obtained 

 from any other strain. (See cut.) 



Explanatory. — There yet seem to be a few people who do not understand 

 that a double Petunia rarely seeds, and, consequently, the pollen has to be taken 

 from a double flower and be applied to the stigma of a single flower, having 

 previously removed the latter' s own pollen, the single-flowering plants produc- 

 ing the seed. In this way the blood of the iivo parent plants is blended in the 

 progeny, and, in consequence, the seeds gathered are bound to produce some 

 tingle as well as double flowering plants. The weaker seedlings usually prove 

 to be the doubles. 



Giant "Kainbow." Deep throat of intense yellow, with radiating veins and 



pencilings overlaying rich ground colors of various tints Pkt. 25 



Giant "Titania." Royal violet purple, rich and velvety ; broad white margin. 25 

 Giant "Harlequin." A beautiful strain, the flowers of large size and of dif- 

 ferent colors, and all are hieroglyphically blotched, spotted or striped with other 

 colors in charming confusion 25 



PRICE of Henderson's New Petunias, " DOUBLE Giants of Cali- 

 fornia," Mixed Colors, per packet, 50 cts. 



'DOUBLE GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA" PETUNIA. 



