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PETER HENDERSON & CO.; NEW YORK— FLOWER SEEDS 



PERENNIAL 



FLOWER 



SEEDS 



FOR 



FALL AND 

 SUMMER 

 SOWING 



ARISTOLOCHIA OR DUTCHMAN S PIPE 



DOUBLE AQUILEGIA 



Pkt. 



ACHILLEA, The Pearl. A greatly improved variety of 

 this old, hardy garden favorite A. Ptarmica ft. pi. 

 The Pearl produces larger double pure white flowers 

 in clusters on long stems from spring until frost. 

 Splendid cut flower; 2 feet 10 



ALYSSUM, Saxatile Compacta. A beautiful dwarf 

 hardy perennial for spring beds or edging a flower 

 border. The flowers are produced in large clusters 

 and are of a deep pure yellow ; K foot 10 



AMPELOPSIS Veitchii. Boston or Japanese Ivy, 

 valuable hardy climber, clinging to wood, stone or 

 brick walls; dense ivy-green foliage, changing to 

 red in autumn; 30 feet 10 



ANCHUSA Italica (Dropmore). A fine, large, hardy 

 herbaceous plant; 4 to 5 feet high, with flowers of 

 lovely Gentian blue 15 



ANEMONES (A. St. Brigid.) These beautiful Irish 

 Poppy-flowered varieties produce in abundance large 

 single, semi-double and double flowers 3 to 5 inches 

 across, in an endless variety of colors, from maroon 

 and brightest scarlet to flesh-pink and from lilac to 

 purple. For cutting they are unsurpassed, and in the 

 garden they flower until after frost ; hardy perennials 

 flowering from seed the second year and thereafter . . .15 



ANTIRRHINUM, Giant Flowering. These improved 

 "Snapdragons" form brilliant garden beds, flower- 

 ing profusely and continuously during the summer 

 andfall. They grow about 2 feet high. The flowers 

 are nearly double the size of the older sorts. 



Tall Giant-Flowering Mixed. Per 1000 seeds 60c 15 



The following separate colors each . 15 



Blood-Red Maroon 



Deep Rose Pink Orange-Scarlet. White throat 



Deep Scarlet White 



Light Pink Yellow 



Collection, 1 pkt. each, 8 separate colors 1 .00 



Semi-Dwarf Giant-Flowering. These semi-dwarf va- 

 rieties produce flowers as large as the tall sorts, while 

 the plants are of compact, bushy growth, only a foot 

 high, and are completely covered with flowers 

 throughout summer and fall. 



Albino. Cream flushed pink 10 



Picturatum. Blotched and spotted 10 



The Bride. Pure white 10 



Scarlet 10 



Yellow 10 



Coral-Rose 10 



Mixed Colors, Per 1000 seeds, 40c 10 



Collection, 1 pkt. each of above 6 separate colors 50 



AQUILEGIA (Columbine.) Hardy garden perennials. 

 Very effective when grown in beds or the herbaceous 

 border. Height 1_K to 3 feet. 

 Henderson's American Hybrid Columbine. The 

 plants are robust; the flower stems, often 40 inches 

 in height, carry clusters of immense long-spurred, 



single flowers. The colors are superb 25 



Single, Large-Flowering, Mixed colors 10 



AQUILEGIA— Continued. 



Double-Flowering, Long Spurred Hybrids. Beauti- 

 ful long-spurred, large, double flowers 



Bell-Flowered Columbine. {Aquilegia Clemataquilla.) 

 A beautiful new spurless type producing.large open 

 bell-shaped flowers of many colors, sliades and 

 combinations, including sky blue, pink, deep blue, 

 purple, violet, lavender, white, flesh, rose, maroon, 

 salmon, etc., in mixture 



Chrysantha. The beautiful long-spurred yellow 



Coerulea Hybrida. Rocky Mountain variety, long- 

 spurred flowers of white and blue 



ARISTOLOCHIA Sipho. Dutchman's Pipe Vine. Hardy 

 climber; has large leaves, making dense shade; 



flowers mottled yellow and brown 30 feet 



ASPARAGUS Verticillatus. Hardy climber, with 



feathery foliage and scarlet berries; 10 ft 



ASTER, Hardy, New Large Flowering. 



These "Michaelmas Daisies" are splendid subjects 

 for permanent positions in the herbaceous border 

 where they form large bushy clumps, IK to 2 feet 

 high, and are covered with clusters of large single 

 flowers during the late summer months. 



White Queen. Pure white single flowers 



Alpinus Goliath. Lilac with yellow center 



Hardy Asters, Mixed Colors. New Hybrids 



BELLIS, or Double Daisy. Greatly improved varieties 

 of the popular "Double Daisies." Admirably 

 adapted for edgings, borders and low beds. It is 

 preferable to sow the plants in cold frames in fall 

 and winter; K foot. 



Longfellow. Extra large double rose-pink flowers. . . 



Snowball. Large, double, pure white flowers 



Red. Densely double flowers, glowing rosy red 



Mixed Colors 



Monstrosa. These new "Double" daisies surpass all 

 strains of this popular hardy plant in strong robust 

 growth and abundance of large bloom. Each plant 

 produces 12 to 15 flowers that measure two inches 

 across, carried on long strong stems. 



Monstrosa Double White 



Double Rose 



" Double Mixed 



BIGNONIA Grandifiora. The hardy trumpet Creeper, 



clusters of large orange-red flowers picturesquely 



effective on arbors, old trees, etc.; 40 to 50 feet. . . 



BOLTONIA Asteroides. Hardy perennial, growing 6 feet 



in height, producing single white Marguerite-like 



flowers during summer and autumn 



CAMPANULA Bell-Flower. 



Campanula Persicaefolia grandifiora. (Peach leaved 

 Bell-Flowers), handsome, hardy perennials, throw- 

 ing up spikes 2 or 3 feet high; bearing during 

 summer large, bell shaped blossoms of blue or white. 

 White 10 Blue „ 



Campanula pyramidalis. Mixed Colors. The favor- 

 ite "Chimney Bell-Flower," a hardy biennial — tall 

 spikes of bell-shaped blossoms in shades of blue and 

 white; height, 4 to 5 feet 



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Cultural Instructions are printed on all packets of Henderson's Flower Seeds. 



