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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE.— PLANTS. 



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 9 DOUBLE FRINGED 



Petunias. 



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to our Double 

 we feel a par- 



DOUBLE FRINGED TETONIAS. 



N calling attention 

 Fringed Petunias 

 donable pride in alluding to our 

 successful efforts, extending over a 

 number of years, towards improving 

 this very useful and beautiful race of 

 plants. To none which we cultivate do 

 we devote more care and labor, employ- 

 ing only the most skillful hands, and 

 hybridizing the tens of thousands of 

 flowers by hand, a slow and expensive 

 process, but justified by the results. 

 When it is considered that the varieties 

 offered were selected from over a thou- 

 sand plants, and that they, in turn, are 

 a selection from over ten thousand seedlings, some estimate 

 can be formed of the scrupulous and watchful care we exercise 

 in selecting. They are of the easiest culture, growing in any 

 soil which will maintain plant life, and producing the most 

 showy flowers in wonderful profusion. The flowers are very useful 

 for table decoration, laid on a flat dish and garnished with their own 

 foliage. 



For the first time we are enabled to offer 

 a pure pink Double Fringed Petunia. 

 At rare intervals we have had varieties of a lavender pink shade, 

 but this is the equal in color of the finest carnations. 



(The Carnation Petunia.) Distinct from 

 all others. Free growing and branching, 

 producing numbers of perfectly double, pure white flowers about i\ 

 inches across, not fringed. For florists' summer flowers as a ground- 

 work for designs it will be invaluable. 



SEA FOAM. ^^ e g reatest achievement of the hybridizer in 



=L Double Petunias is to produce a fine double 



fringed variety of a pure white; this we have occasionally succeeded in doing, but never 



have we obtained one that for purity of color, fcrm, size and vigor of growth was the 



superior of "Sea Foam." 



The variety on the upper right-hand corner of the engraving. Pearly 

 white, suffused with a faint flush and deepening to rosy pink, with here 

 and there a petal blotched with carmine pink. 



VOLUNTEER. This fine Double Petunia is bold and handsome in flower and habit. 

 The color is a rich rosy purple changing to violet, having a beautiful 



MRS. F. SANDER. 



JEFFBEYS. 



SUNRISE 



MANILA. 



A grand variety, deeply fringed, large and very 

 double, pure white irregularly splashed with 



lustre; the petals are marked with pearly white. 



SAN JAUN. A l ar g e . solidly built flower, without fringe, 

 - and one of the most attractive in the collection. 



carmine. 



SANTIAGO. -A- n extra l ar S e . fi ne - double fringed variety, 

 ' : deep violet crimson with a velvety finish and 



a silvery sheen on the back— the silver lining to the cloud. 



HELEN GOULD. Another fine variety, and one of the 



' most distinct in our collection. Very 

 finely fringed, very double, clear white with a beautiful shade of 

 carmine rose in the centre, changing to evening purple. 



Color pearly white, liberally splashed with violet crimson. 



MERRIMAC* ® ne °* tne most unique and beautiful in the 

 — - list. The color is light lavender pink with 



white edges, veined and marbled with brownish crimson. 



Price for any of the above Double Petunias, 3 inch pets, $1.00 

 per doz.; $8.00 per ico; set of 10 distinct sorts for 85c. Plants 

 from 2± inch pots, 75c. per doz.; $6.00 per 100. 



DOUBLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. 



Plants grown 

 from the same 



strain of seed which produced the above varieties, but not all of 

 them are certain to be double. Such of them as come single will, 

 however, be certain to be large and brilliantly colored. 

 Price, $4.00 per 100. 



SINGLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS 



These are grown 



from seed of our 



own saving, and are the same strain as those we use in our 



hybridizing to obtain double flowers. Many of them will be finely 



fringed, and most of them are sure to be highly colored varieties. 



Price, $3 00 per 100. 



SEEDS OF HENDERSON'S SUPERB DOUBLE FRINGED PETUNIAS. 



As an illustration of the care necessary to produce this seed, we state that it costs us in labor alone $200.00 PER 



OUNCE, or about eleven times its weight in gold. We have a limited quantity of this seed for sale, and offer it at 35c. per packet. 



