•FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIFJ^ ^ 



100 % 



HENDERSON'S 



SUPERIOR GIANT PANSIR 



Years of scientific culture, hybridization and selection in raising 

 Pansies have gradually evolved a superior race of luxuriant, robust 

 growth and deep-rooting, drought-withstanding qualities; the 

 flowers have also correspondingly improved in size, substance, form 

 and colors. At first there were only one or two varieties in this 

 class of pansies, but annually one or more varieties would reach the 

 goal of the Giants, until now we have such a complete variety of 

 colors, that we, this season, discard all ordinary-sized pansies, ex- 

 cepting those used in our cheapest mixture, offered on page 76. 



"I think I have tried everybody's best pansies arid none of them can 

 hold a candle to Henderson's big ones."-— GRACE POPE, Southwest 

 Point, Canada.. Per 1,000 



seeds. 



Giant Trimardeau Pansies. Mixed Colors PH. .10. . . .50 



" Atropurpurea (E.ex>. Velvety roval-purple 10.... 50 n A. NT 



" Beauty. Claret, edged white, violet blotches 10.... 50 1^ |*/^ f 



" Canary Bird. Pure, spotless yellow 10'. ... 50 , jr\) 



" Emperor William. Indigo-blue, blotched black.. .10... 50 ^y 



" Empress Victoria. Porcelain-edged violet, purple t t\ \ ' 



blotches 10 50 Tf\\) 



" Fire King. Crimson-purple and golden-yellow.. . .10.... 50 i \ 



" King of the Blacks. Lustrous jet-black 10 ...50 / v 



" Lord Beaconsfield. Lavender, heliotrope and 



purple 10. . . .50 



" Peacock (Gloriosa). Garnet cream and blue 10.... 50 



" President Carnot. White with large violet 



blotches 10. . . .50 



" Prince Bismarck. Golden-bronze 10... 50 



" Prince Charming. Rose-pink, veined rosy-lilac. .10... 50 



" Snow Queen. Spotless, snow-white 10. . . .50 



" Striped. White, blue, violet and chocolate 10. . . .50 



" Violet Marbled White 10 50 



«' Violet Marbled Yellow 10 50 



" Victoria. Ox-blood red 10. . . .50 



" White Treasure. White with three violet blotches .10 50 



" Yellow. Golden-yellow, three maroon blotches. . .10. . . .50 



HENDERSON'S COLLECTION OF 12 GIANT PANSIES. 



This coDection contains one packet each of 12 of the largest and most 

 beautiful Pansies in cultivation. Price, 75c. 



Henderson's Mammoth Butterfly Pansies. 



THESE Pansies we are very proud of. We have sold them for a 

 number of years and receive hundreds of letters praising their 

 superior beauty, size and other merits. When our unequalcd 

 collections of all types of pansies are in bloom we go over them daily 

 and any plant producing flowers of superlative merit is removed to 

 our "Mammoth Butterfly'' plot of pansies, where nothing but the 

 largest, handsomest and most perfect are allowed to remain. Con- 

 sequently the seed is saved from the greatest varieties of types, includ- 

 ing only the best of Giant Cassiers, Bugnots, Trimardeau, 5-blotched 

 Odier, Giant English, French and German Hybrids, etc., resulting 

 in the greatest variety of coloring, marking, blotching, veining, etc., 

 for brilliant and attractive beds. 



Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 75c PH .25 



"/ have grown large pansies before, but never saw the equal of the 

 'Mammoth Butterfly,' the seed of which I got from you last fall. I 

 have a large bed of them; the plants are 20 inches high, and the stems 

 of the blossoms 9 inches long, while the blossoms themselves are simply 

 monstrous, each one a broad expanse of beauty." 



THOMAS C. STARR, Newton, Mass. 



Henderson's Giant Ruffled Pansies. 



A REMARKABLE strain of Giant Pansies, the flowers of which 

 are so large and full that the broad petals seem to be "gathered" 

 to the stem, causing them to be undulated and fluted from 

 centre to circumference, not unlike "frilled" velvet. The unusual 

 substance of the flowers, aided by these corrugations, thus enables 

 them to present bold, open and handsome faces, even during windy 

 or dry summer weather, when other pansy flowers flop or wilt. The 

 flowers are extraordinarily large and are borne on strong stems well 

 above the foliage; they are nearly all five-blotched on the "Odier" 

 pattern, and contain rich combinations of coloring, including some 

 new tints and blendings not met with in other pansies. The plants 

 are vigorous and large, and flower abundantly. 

 Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 75c Pkt. .25 



Henderson's Mammoth Parisian Pansies. 



THE Parisian Pansies are distinguished by their magnificent 

 and varied colors and strong markings. There is usually a 

 large "blotch" on each of the five petals, with a surrounding 

 band of some strikingly contrasting color, over all of which is thrown 

 a cobweb-like netting of yet another hue. The combinations pre- 

 vailing are composed of shades of cinnamon, violet, canary and 

 orange-yellow, black, garnet, light blue, indigo, cream, etc. These 

 pansies have been brought up to a high standard of excellence, the 

 flowers being of fine substance, perfect shape and of mammoth size, 

 measuring, when properly cultivated, four inches across. A large 

 number of these pansies are also very fragrant. 

 Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 75c Pkt. .25 



Henderson's Giant Mottled Pansies. 



A DISTINCT new type of Pansies of greatest merit. The flowers 

 are of giant size and are borne in profusion — well-grown they 

 measure 3 to 3i inches across — and of most gorgeous effects, 

 blotched, spotted, marbled, veined, striped and blended, colors 

 passing through reds, rose, pink, white, purple, in beautiful and 

 indescribable variegation. These pansies were awarded a prise at the 

 Paris Exposition. Mixed Colors. Per 1.000 seeds, 75c. . Pkt. .25 



HENDERSON'S MAMMOTH BUTTERFLY PANSIES {&Hf d vi th th t e he w ^ 



£w£k 



at the Columbian Exposition and were awarded the medal. 



