PETER HENDERSON & CO.—FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 57 
Giant jeans Nicotiana ° 
(Nicotiana macrophylla gigantea purpurea.) 
This is one of the most magnificent decorative plants for picturesque 
effect on the lawn or in the garden that we have seen for years. The 
foliage is luxuriant and tropical in appearance, and when the stately plants 
are surmounted with the immense clusters of rich crimson flowers, the 
effect is beautiful in the extreme. We had a group of several of these 
plants in our grounds the past season; they grew rapidly and attained a 
maximum height of about five feet. They commenced blooming early in 
July when the plants were not over two feet high and continued to flower 
in uninterrupted profusion until cut down by frost. The clusters of 
flowers averaged two feet long, though many measured quite three feet 
long by two feet across. One cluster, by actual count, was composed of 
over five hundred blossoms. The individual flowers are tube-shaped, 
two inches long by one inch across. If this plant is given a warm, sunny 
position in the garden, we know of nothing more beautiful. It flowers 
the first season. (See cut.) Per packet, 15 cts. 
NEW POPPY, ‘‘E1per-Down.’’ 
(Papaver somniferwm album laciniatum fl. pl.) 
We have sent out many fine new Poppies in the past two 
o1 three years, but nothing to eclipse the chaste and exquisite 
beauty of this. The plants were of sturdy habit, growing about 
114 feet high, and bearing flowers like great round balls of eider- 
‘down, as white as snow, the edges of the petals being deeply 
pinked or slashed. It blooms the first season, remains in flower 
much longer than is usual with Poppies, and deserves a place 
in every garden. (Seecut.) Per packet, 20 cts. 
POPPY, 
* gh Flag of Truce.” 
If our customers 
could have seen this 
variety in our grounds 
this season, we certainly 
could not supply the de- 
By mand forseed. Imagine ro- 
g bust plants about two feet 
= high bearing quantities of 
great satiny, white, single 
flowers, three to four inches 
across, resembling big single 
Peonies. Ourbed of them in 
, alittle breeze looked like a 
+ mass of shifting, glistening 
snow and was a feast for the 
eye such as we trust many of 
our friends will avail themselves of in their gardens the coming summer. Per packet, 15e. 
Somme Gre Mii SUNELOWER. 
A novel and beautiful Sunflower, growing about five feet high, of very branched, tree- 
& like form, each branch bearing flowers of a delicate primrose or sulphur yellow with a 
¥-black centre. The flowers are borne from within two feet of the ground to the summit, 
and come out in succession until killed by frost. Its rare color in a Sunflower, added to its 
effectiveness for garden decoration, make it very desirable. (See cut.) Per packet, 10 cts. 
NEW TOM THUMB NASTURTIUM, ‘‘AURORA.”’ 
A beautiful pink variety, very effective for bedding purposes, where it lasts in full 
bloom untilfrost. Per packet, 15 cts. 
POPPY, ‘‘EIDER-DOWN.” | 
