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(SALVIA SPLENDENS NANA COMPACTA ERECTA.) 



This variety, without question, is the finest Salvia for bedding yet in- 

 troduced. The plants grow into very compact oval bushes, about 23£ 

 feet high, and produce long spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers. The 

 spikes stand out stiff and erect ; over 200 spikes to a plant is not un- 

 usual, and the spikes bear from 20 to 30 flowers each. The ordinary 

 Salvia splendens is of Btraggly growth, and the flower spikes bend over 

 and do not produce one-third" of the bloom that this new variety does. 

 Gorgeous effects can be produced with the Bonfire Salvia massed on the 

 lawn or in the garden, or planted in rows along a sunny drive, where 

 the brilliant scarlet is simply dazzling. Perennial, but blooms the first 

 season from seed. (See cut.) Pkt. 15 



Salvia Splendens. (Scarlet Sage.) Scarlet 5 



Coccinea Lactea. Pure milk-white. Height, 2 ft 10 



Patens. Brightblue, the most beautiful blue known in flowers. 20 



STOCKS or GiUifloWers. 



Dwarf Largfe-flowering 

 Weeks. 



Double Ten 



These well-known favorites require no description ; they are indis- 

 pensable to all lovers of flowers; the " Stocks of to-day " are greatly 

 superior to the old types, the flowers being much larger and extra dou- 

 ble. (See cut.) 



Pure White 



Canary Yellow- 



Sky Blue 



Blood Bed 



Lavender. 



.Pkt. 10 



10 



10 



10 



10 



Violet 10 



Double Mixed, Large-flowering Dwarf. 



Buff Pink, yellow centre.. PH. 



Chamois, lovely color 



Mahogany (red chestnut) 



Bright Bose 



Copper Bed 



Carmine Bose 



10 

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 10 

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VARIOUS TYPES OF DOUBLE STOCKS. 



Double Ordinary, Mixed, 10 Weeks Stocks (from field-grown plants) Pkt. 5 



Dwarf Pyramidal, Mixed. Beautiful sort 10 



Wallflower Leaved, Mixed. Double 10 



Princess May. Large double flowers of the most excellent shape and of the 

 most exquisite yellow. The individual flowers when fully expanded have attained 

 the extraordinary size of two inches across. Extremely early flowering ; in fact, 

 the first Ten Weeks Stock to bloom, and will prove exceedingly popular both in 



private gardens and as a market pot plant 15 



Snowflake. A beautiful dwarf-growing variety; very large double snow-white 



flowers ; very early 10 



Cut and Come Again. About 2 feet high ; it produces from spring to late in the 

 fall pure white, beautifully shaped double flowers. It throws out numbers of side 

 branches., each of which bears a cluster of blossoms, and the of tener they are cut 

 the better they seem to like it 10 



Mammoth White Column Stock. The plantisofluxuriantgrowth, 

 attaining in the open ground a height of 3 feet, and producing only a 

 single long and sturdy spike of bloom, closely furnished with enor- 

 mous, faultlessly formed double flowers of the purest possible 

 white 10 



Pigmy Queen Ten Weeks Stocks. A valuable new introduction. 

 The plants grow not over 9 inches high, of compact branching 

 habit, producing numerous umbels of large, double, rich dark blood- 

 red flowers 10 



Tree or Giant Ten Weeks Stocks. Strong growers, bearing very 

 large and very double flowers on tall stems, way above the foliage, 

 splendid for cutting purposes. Mixed colors 10 



New "Victoria Bouquet" Stocks. A new strain of Ten Weeks 

 Stocks of great beauty, which are entirely distinct from all other 

 stocks. Each plant forms a perfect pyramidal bouquet, the main 

 flower stem rising a few inches above the side branches, all of which 

 bear large spikes of very double flowers. We offer the following sep- 

 arate colors : 



Grand White. Snow-white Pkt. 10 



Bed Dome. Dark blood-red 10 



Pink of Perfection. A beautiful rose pink 10 



Intermediate Stock. 



( Autumn Floioering.) 

 Double Mixed. Including many sorts Pkt. 10 



HEADER'S COIiOSSflliTEji WEEKS STOCKS. 



This magnificent strain is without a rival for open ground planting, attaining a 

 height of 2^ feet. The spikes of bloom are very long and the individual flowers 

 are enormous in size and very double. (See cut.) 



El Dorado. Bright sulphur yellow Pkt. 15 



Eosy Morn. Delicate rosy flesh 15 



Mount Blanc. Purest white 15 



Grand Eouge. Brilliant crimson 15 



Aurora. Shining copper red 15 



Blue Bells. Pretty shade of blue 15 



Collection of above 6 varieties 75 



Colossal Stocks, Mixed Colors 15 



Our seed of Slocks is saved in Ger- 

 many from plants grown inpots, and 

 produces m uch finer and larger flowers 

 and a greater percentage of doubles 

 than the cheaper seed offered by 

 -JJ&ia someothers which is saved 



>!"**T>^. from open-ground 



plants. 



Biennial Stock. 



Brompton, Finest Mixed. Large-flowering double Pkt. 10 



Emperor, or Perpetual, Mixed. Large-flowering double, fre- 

 quently lasts for several years if protected .' 10 



Imported Collections of Stocks. 



German Ten Weeks, Large-flowering Dwarf. In 12 separate colors. 



Per collection 75 



In 6 separate colors 50 



Dwarf Pyramidal. In 6 separate colors 50 



Emperor. In 6 separate colors 50 



Intermediate. In 6 separate colors 50 



Brompton or Winter Flowering. In 12 separate colors 75 



HENDERSON 8 COLOSSAL TEN WEEKS STOCKS 



