PETER HENDERSON & CO.—FLOWER SEEDS. 83 
PRIMULA OR PRIMROSES. 
The ‘‘Chinese Primrose ”’ is a great favorite for winter blooming in the house and 
conservatory. The foliage is pretty and attractive, and the flowers, borne in clusters, 
are perfectly charming and borne all through the winter and spring. One of our best 
125 aaa Singie Large Flowering Fringed Warieties. 
Hybridizing and selection have produced this improved strain, the flowers of 
which measure from 11g to 2 inches across, are perfectly round, the edges of the petals 
overlapping each other and beautifully fringed. (See cut.) Per Pkt. 
RUVIDILG Serre dee ocieeisisias 50 | Carmine. Yellow eye....50| Scarlet. Sulphur eye... ..50 
Striped ce asco we ee 50 | Red.....................50 | Crimson. Spotted white. .50 
Alba Magnifica. The finest pure white variety grown; flowers 244 inches across, 
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Mixed Large Flowering Fringed. Including many sorts...................22:.-0-5- 50 
Fern Leaved. Mixed colors, foliage of this class long and Fern-like.................50 
Eine) single Mixed (Colors. Old'type (not fringed)... 0.2... .-. 2. .-c5- 2 cece eee cee 25 
Double Large Flowering Fringed Warieties. 
The flowers are not as large as the single sorts, but are double, and remarkably hand- 
some, and remain on the plant a long time. 
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Double:Striped pes see eee 75 | Double Mixed Sorts...................: 75 
Cristata Nana. A dwarf-growing, semi-double variety, smaller snow white flowers, 
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PRIMULA OBCONICA. (Ever-blooming Primrose.) Flowers pale lilac, almost 
white, borne in umbels on long stems; delicately fragrant; in pots it will flower 
continuously for the greater portion of the year; remarkable keeping properties 
after being cut, remaining fresh in water 
from four to six weeks. The plant is dwarf 
and compact, growing from 6 to 12 inches 
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HARDY PRIMROSES. 
Beautiful low growing, early spring flowering 
plants, fine for rockeries, borders, etc. ; 
the flowers are borne in um- 
bels or clusters on the top of 
stalks about 4 to 6 inches long. 
JAPANESE PRIMROSE, Pri- 
mula Japonica. Mixed. One of 
the most beautiful. Flowers 1 in. 
across, of shades of erimson, ma- 
roon, lilac, pink, white, etc., on 
stems 1 to 2ft. high. AP....... 15 
Primula Macrocalyx. (Jack-in- 
the-Green.) Novel; each flower 
in a cup of green leaves........ 25 
PRIMULA FLORIBUNDA. (See 
ENOVEWLES) cso) sale sistlesls = = 25 
See also Auricula, Cowslip and Polyanthus. 
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PRIMULA OR CHINESE PRIMROSE. 
HARDY PRIMROSES,:-; px. 
ENGLISH PRIMROSE, Pri- 
mula Vulgaris. The old favorite 
common yellow Primrose, now 
so popular and fashionable in 
England, and celebrated as 
** Beaconsfield’s flower”....... 10 
SIBERIAN PRIMROSE, Pri- 
mula Cortusoides. Deep rose, 
beautiful and free flowering... .10 
NEW ROSE COLORED ALPINE PRIMROSE. 
(Primula rosea.) 
Anew hardy variety from Kash- 
mir, totally distinct from any other 
and a perfect gem. It throws up 
spikes, sometimes aS many as 12 to 
a plant, 4 to 6 inches high, in the 
spring, each spike surmounted with 
heads of from 6 to 10 large blos- 
soms, 1 inch across, of a charming 
bright rosy carmine with yellow 
eye. Comes from seed quickly, 
grows in ordinary soil, and is so free 
flowering that the smallest plants 
throw up flower stems. Per Pkt., 25c. 
Known as ‘‘Castor-Oil Plant” and ‘ Palma- 
Christi ;” a rapid-growing foliage plant; much used 
for sub-tropical effects on the lawn, or for centres 
of beds of foliage plants. AHA. Per Pkt. 
Borboniensis. 15 ft. Immense green foliage... 5 
Gibsonii. 6 ft. Dark purplish red foliage and 
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Obermanii. 8ft. Light red foliage; red fruit.. 5 
Communis. Green foliage. 6ft...............- 5 
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Cambogiensis. Large Palm-like leaves of a 
bronzy red maroon color, with large red veins; 
the main stem or trunk ebony black........... 15 
Imported collection of 8 separate sorts, 30 cts. 
RUDBECKIA—TEXAS CONE FLOWERS. 
These robust growing plants are now becoming very popular for border decoration. 
They are of the easiest possible culture, and bear very showy flowers, with raised, cone- 
shaped centres during summer and autumn. Per Pkt. 
Rudbeckia Bicolor. An annual variety, 114 ft. high; immense flowers, bright yellow 
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— Newmanii. Perennial; grows 2 ft. high; large golden yellow flowers with velvety 
maroon centre cone; flowers 3 to 4inches across. (See Ct.).... 0... eee e eee eee eee ee 15 SALVIA SPLENDENS. (See page 84.) 
BRUDBECEKIA NEWMANII. 
