64 PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 
friant Flowering 
Comat GaNdytutt 
Europe last season we heard of something wonderful 
in the way of Candytufts that were being raised by an 
old and celebrated grower. We paid him a visit and were 
surprised and delighted to find that he had worked up a 
strain by hybridization, intelligent selection and scientific 
culture, that eclipsed any Candytufts we had ever before 
seen. They were of the nana compacta or Tom Thumb class, 
forming bushy plants, compact and very uniform, averaging 
about six inches high. He had increased the size of the in- 
dividual florets as well as the whole head of bloom to nearly 
double the size of the old varieties, and besides had suc- 
ceeded in securing several new and exquisite shades and 
colors. We counted 15 different varieties and specially noted 
a light pink, deep rose, lavender, bright crimson, salmon 
red, flesh color, bright blue, heliotrope striped white, and 
Tich violet. The pure white was especially fine in size and 
purity of color. 
y We purchased the entire crop from him ata high price and put it into one grand mixture. Seed sown in the open ground in the spring will produce plants 
that will flower from early summer throughout the entire season. For low beds, edgings and general garden decoration, or even pot culture, this new Giant Flowering 
Candytuft is destined to become universally popular. Price, 25c. per packet. 
Cosmos, New Californian flonster Hybrids, A Magnificent New Strain. 
CONTAINS NEW SHAPES, NEW COLORS AND VARIEGATIONS 
OF COLOR NEVER DREAIIED OF IN COSMOS. 
Cosmos, ‘‘The Glory of the Autumn Garden,” has so steadily gained in popu- 
larity for the last few years that it has been taken in hand by two or three special- 
ists with a view to seeing how much it could be improved by hybridizing, selec- 
tion and culture. When we offered the ‘‘ Mammoth Perfection ”’ strain two years 
ago, which contained the white, crimson and pink, immense round-flowered 
varieties, we thought the pinnacle of perfection had been attained and never 
dreamed of such a decided break as will be found in these NEw CALIFORNIAN 
MonstER Hysrips. Some of the flowers in this new strain measure five inches 
across; some flowers are aS round as a cart-wheel, with broadly overlapping 
petals. Some have petals as smooth and flat and waxy as a Camellia; others 
are pleated and frilled at the edges, others toothed and fringed. Some 
have only five petals, forming a perfect star. But the great charm of these 
new Cosmos is the wonderful diversity of colors, shades and markings entirely 
unique in Cosmos. Words are inadequate to do justice to them; they 
are simply beyond description. There are so many shades of color and sucha 
variety of forms that it is impossible to describe all, but we will mention a few 
to convey a little idea of the great variety: Delicate rosy lavender, with a maroon 
ring around the centre; white, flushed pale pink; blush, zoned deep pink around 
the centre; rose, flushed with pink and lined white; pure snowy white, with an 
extra number of petals; there are white grounds flecked with the tiniest pink 
spots in light and dark shades; grand glowing crimson, some lighter, some 
darker ; solid blush; solid deep pink, etc., ete. 
The foliage, too, is very beautiful. In some plants it is as coarsely laciniated as 
the Delphinium, and in others it is as fine as the most filmy fern. The effect of 
the brilliant flowers against this graceful background is exquisite. 
We offer one grand mixture of the new Californian Monster Hybrid Cosmos. 
(See cut.) Price, 25c. per packet. 
New Yellow Cosmos, ——oati=— 
A very desirable novelty, perfectly distinct in habit from the Garden Cosmos so 
generally known. This new yellow variety forms a spreading, numerously 
branched dwarf plant ; the foliage is finely laciniated and glossy green; the flow- di \ J J 
ers, about 114 inches across, are star-shaped and of a rich golden yellow. This SS 
new variety is a remarkably free bloomer, a perfect mass of bloom until killed by 
frost. Price, 25c. per packet. COSMOS, NEW CALIFORNIAN MONSTER HYBRID. 
WE DELIVER FREE, to any post office in the United States, All Flower Seeds offered in this Catalogue. 
als traveling through the great seed-growing districts of 
GIANT FLOWERING DWARF HYBRID CANDYTUFT. 
