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FHlfiGED COIiEUS. 



HENDERSON'S LARGE- 

 LEAVED COLEUS. 



Coleus grown from seed make very thrifty plants the first season and are fully 

 as effective for promiscuous summer bedding as when grown from cuttings- un 

 fortunately their tendency to "sport" renders it inadvisable to offer seeds of an-v 

 special color or variety, as it is more than likely that no two seedlings would be 

 alike, but for subtropical groups the endless varietv and combinations of 

 brilliant colors are very captivating, and out of every batch of seedlings there are 

 sure to be a few plants of conspicuous beauty, and such mav be increased bv 

 cuttings and be potted up for winter decoration. The seed that we offer has 

 been saved from the choicest collection of large fringed-leaved Coleus that we 

 know of. which were thoroughly hybridized by hand and must produce some 

 grand varieties. (See cut.) pj^f 25 



ni^nm ^ ND BEMUTiFuu_ p£|jsifl|^ CVCIifllVIEI^. 



Cyclamens are among the most beautiful winter and spring flowering plants 

 for the window and greenhouse. Not only are the flowers of striking beauty 

 but the foliage m also highly ornamental. These new strains are even more 

 beautiful. 



CBESTED CYCLAMEN. Largest size flowerB. white, with a strikingly 

 distinct crest or feather of the same color upon the face of each petal: verv 

 unique and beautiful. [See cut.) .....Pkt. 50 



BUTTERFLY CYCLAMEN. The flowers are of noble size, with spreading 

 crimped and undulated petals, the margins of which are daintily fimbriated! 

 iheeffect IS to throw high lights and shadows on the waxv glossy petals, en- 

 hvenlngthe brilliant colorings and exciuisite variegations "of floweVs. Mixed 

 Colors Pkt. 50 



DOUBLE LABOE-PLOWEBING CYCLAMEN. The flowers have 



usually 8 to 10 [letals. often 12 to l.j, wliich are more spreading than in single 

 varieties There is the same range of colors, crimson, pink, white, spotted 

 etc. and like all double flowers they remain much longer in perfection than 

 singles, the season of blooming lasting fully three months. Double. Mixed 

 Colors ..Pkt. 3-, 



HENDERSOI^'S 

 GIAJiT PEl^SIflH 

 GVGIifl]VIEIl. 



A superior strain with flowers 

 of largest size and perfect 

 form, displayed well above 

 the handsome foliage; the 

 colors are all brilliant, in- 

 cluding crimson, rose-pink, 

 white, dark blood red, spot- 

 ted, eyed, etc. 



Qiant White Pkt 25 



Oiant White, with Bed 



„Eye 25 



G-iant Bose 2'> 



Oiant White, Spotted Bed 



25 



Oiant Dark Blood-red 25 

 Oiant Mixed Colors 20 



••The Giant Cj-clamens I 



raised from your seed »ere the 



largest and /inest I ever grew " 



T. L. HO WES, 



North Adams, Mass. 



EflRliV 



SUMlWER-FijQWEttiriG 



GOSIVIOS. 



COP YRJGH TI90IB YPETeB HCNDERSOM SCO. 



The Cosmos has de- 

 veloped into one of our 

 most beautiful garden 

 annuals, and has been 

 appropriately called"The 

 Glory of Autumn." Un- 

 fortunately they do not 

 blf)om until quite late, 

 and sometimes in colder 

 Northern States early 

 frost catches them before 

 the.y are fully in flower. 

 This new strain of early- 

 flowering Cosmos, which 

 we have been working up 

 for several years, begins 

 to bloom .scatteringly in 

 June, the quantity " in- 

 creasing graduallj until 

 August, and from that 

 time until frost the plants 

 are a mass of flowers. 

 The flowers are smaller 

 and the plants are 

 dwarfer than the late- 

 flowering Cosmos (of- 

 fered on next page), torm- 

 ing compact bushes only 

 4 feet high. The colors 

 are white, crimson and 

 pink, which we offer only 

 in mixture. (See cut.) 

 Mixed Colors... Pi«. 10 

 (For Giant Autumn- 

 Flowering Cosmos 

 see next page.) 



GOHEOPSIS GtJflNDlFIiOW, " Ell DOJjflDO." 



Of all the varied forms of Coreopsis Grandiflnra this new variety," El Dorado, "is 

 by far the best. The flowers are of extraordinary size— largerthan the flowers of any 

 otherCoreopsisgrown— measuring 3 inches and over in diameter and they are borne 

 oiistout, erect stalks, 15 to 18 inches in length, rendering them most ornamental 

 when arranged loosely in tall vases. In form the flowers are simply perfect, of much 

 substance and long-lasting, and of the most intense and brilliant golden yellow 

 This variety, although a hardy biennial, is better when treated as an annual ; seed 

 sown early in the spring will produce compact bushy plants— about 2 feet high— that 

 will produce their noble flowers in such continuous abundance that the plants are 

 literally smothered in golden blo-ssoms during the entire summer and fall months- 

 it should certainly be grown by every one. being of easy culture, succeeding even 

 In city gardens. (Seecut.) pj^t 25 



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