PETER HENDERSON & CO'S WHOLESALE QUARTERLY LIST OF FLOWER SEEDS. 
CORYPHA AUSTRALIS. 
Cocos Weddeliana. 
This is probably the most elegant small palm ever 
introduced. Leaves fern-like and gracefully arched, 
dark green above, glaucous below. For table decoration 
it is exquisitely beautiful. 
Price, $1.50 per 100 seeds ; $14.00 per 1000. 
Euterpe Edulis. Sy: Oveodoxa Sancona. 
—— ‘Assai Palm.” A tall growing, elegant palm with 
bright, clean stems, resembling Seaforthia Elegans, 
| _and considered an improvement on it, being of rapid 
growth and stands handling well. “They should have 
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Price, $2.90 per 16o seeds ; $18.00 per 1000, 
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GEONOMA GRACILIS. 
_ Geonoma Gracilis. 
A very graceful dwarf species resembling Cocos 
Weddeliana, and by some considered superior, being 
more easily grown; it has graceful arching pinnate 
leaves Exceedingly handsome, especially in the young 
state, and are very decorative for table; an a. a, I thing, 
of medium rapid growth. 
.Price, $1.50 per 100 seeds ; $14.00 per 1000, 
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Kentia Canterburyana. 
Canterburyana. 
‘ Umbrella Palm,” or ‘‘Viscount Canterbury s Palm,’ 
An exceedingly decorative and ornamental palm of tall 
growth. ‘The leaves are large, of a rather bright green 
and form a dense head. Where plenty of room can be 
given, this palm can hardly be overrated for specimens; 
rapid strong grower. The seeds are very large. 
Price, $3.25 per 100 seeds ; $28.00 per 1000. 
entia Forsteriana. Syz- Howea Forsteriana ; 
Grisebachia Forstertana. 
“Flat or Thatch Leaf Palm.” This is without excep- 
tion the most hardy of its class. It is very graceful, 
and for table decoration scarcely has its equal. Excel- 
lent for room culture,-as neither variations in tempera- 
ture or gas affect it. Rapid grower. 
Price, $1.00 per I00 seeds ; $9.00 per 1000, 
Kkentia Moorei. 
A very beautiful, rare and quite distinct dwarf palm, 
with leaves of dark green. This variety will grow in 
a cool temperature.. Rapid grower. a, 
Price, $3.50 per 100 seeds ; $32.00 per 1069/ 
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“KENTIA BELMOREANA, 
Kentia Belmoreana. Syz- Howea Bel; Grise- 
bachia Bel, 
\‘*Belmore’s Curly Palm.’’ A splendid variety and 
very largely grown. Similar but dwarfer than Forsteriana 
and possessing all of its excellent qualities, differing from 
that variety only inthe tendency of its leaves to curl 
under, making it particularly beautiful. Rapid grower. 
Price, $1.00 per 10a seeds ;-$9.00 per 1000, ff 
Latania Borbonica. Syz - Livistona Chinensis; 
L. sinensts » L. Mauritiana,. 
‘*The Bourbon Palm.’”’ A well known and very hand- 
some species, of very rapid and healthy growth. Large, 
broad, shining green, fan-shaped leaves. Unequalled 
for either parlor hall, piazza, lawn or greenhouse 
decoration, of medium quick growth—s8 months from 
sowing it shows its character leaves. 
Price, 35c. per 100 seeds ; $2.75 per 1,000. 
Latania Commiersonii. 
Livistona Commersonit. 
A very handsome, distinct species, Stems smooth 
and slender. Leaves fan-shaped, very deeply incised 
and recurved segments margined with reddish brown. 
Leaf stalks long,smooth and of a dark chocolate red. 
A robust grower, valuable and rare. ~ hoi 
| Price, $2.75 per 100 seeds ; $25.00 per 1,000. 
Syn - Latania rubra ; 
