PETER HENDERSON & GCO., NEW YORK.—FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 69 
Henderson’s 66 Cynosure 99 Collection ~» SHOWN IN COLORS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE. 
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[Azce riowerna PHLOX DRUMMONDII. 
OR many years the Phlox Drummondiis have been great favorites for garden embellishment, and this new large flowering class is unquestionably the most. 
beautiful and useful of allsummer annuals. They are wonderful improvements over the old style of Phioxes ; both the individual flowers and the trusses of bloom 
are much larger and of better form; the petals are broad and overlapping, forming a perfectly round flower of much substance. The flower heads are immense, and 
are produced in perfect succession during the whole summer and autumn in such numbers as fairly to crowd each other for room, particularly if they are grown in 
a sunny position, in warm, rich soil, and plentifully supplied with water or mulched with rotted manure to keep the roots moist through dry weather. There 
is a wonderful diversity of colors, from purest satiny white to red shades so deep and intensely brilliant that the eye can scarcely penetrate their velvety depths; 
soft pinks and dainty flesh tints, and many flowers are marked with various hues, the delicate tints and deep tones mingling in exquisite contrast. 
Not the least among the merits of Henderson’s Large Flowering Phlox is their ease of culture. They succeed with everybody and everywhere. Seeds sown in the 
open ground in early spring will produce blooming plants by early summer, each plant forming a compact little bush about one foot high by a foot across; where 
bedded in quantities the effect is gorgeous in the highest degree. 
The sorts shown on our plate and offered below, we carefully selected at our trial grounds, from thirty-eight different large flowering varieties, as being the 
best and most distinct in coloring. 
Pkt. 
No. 1. Coccinea striata. Bright, rich scarlet, sharply striped white.... No. 6. Isabellina. Lemon yellow, garnet eye..........ccceceecccecceccsesees 10 
No. 2. Albo-oculata. White, with claret eye....... 2.0 ..ecee eve eee ones No. 7. Atropurpurea. Deep purplish blood color, rich and velvety; eye, 
No. 3. Kermesina splendens. Vivid crimson, white eye..................- Plum purple .... 2.2.2.2. eee ec eeee ee eens ee eeee cee nes anc tesccencceeeess 10 
No. 4. Brilliant Rose. Silvery pink, shading to dark rose; large, glossy, No. 8. Alba. Purest white; large round flowers of splendid substance........ 10 
bright crimson eye; grand..............+- Matctefaicte craic Tolaieleisietacisiceictatsterciete 10 | No. 9. Coccinea. Brilliant scarlet, very rich and bright; a most effective 
No. 5. VWiolacea albo-oculata. Purple, with white eye .................08- 10 color for bedding... .... SRO H AEE IOODECO NO coca nobdsoocdtodac 
Large Flowering, Mixed. From many beautiful sorts. Per 0z., 75c...... Pkt.10 
Novel and Beautiful... JPQUBLE FLOWERING PHLOX. 
E are pleased to be able to offer, we think, the finest double Phloxes in existence. Several years of careful selection and improvement have given 
us a Strain of as healthy, vigorous growth as the ordinary single Phloxes. The flowers are also enlarged and more densely double. Double Phlcxes, like all 
double flowers, are more durable than singles, and, in addition to a longer display of bloom, they are valuable for cutting and bouquet-making. We offer 
the following varieties, as shown in colors opposite, viz. : 
Pkt. 
No. 10. Double Yellow.......... a6 Spouddonsnon sabes No. 12. Double White......... 
NO er DOUDLENGPIMSOM mesetiiticese ccs ccc ctec ceeccicsisiscnceccioccccsiccs 500604203 Mixed Double Phlox............. 
PRIC of Henderson’s “Cynosure” Collection of Large Flowering Phlox Drummondii (this includes all 1 OO Free by 
varieties—9 Single Large Flowering and 3 Double Flowering—shown on the colored plate opposite) ° 9 mail. 
Gina ‘(Imperial Japanese ’”’ 
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« * (Morning Glories. 
GIGANTIC FLOWERS. EXQUISITE NEW COLORS. MAGNIFICENT FOLIAGE. 
AY, E introduced these grand climbers last season, and they have given 
unbounded satisfaction and surprise at their great beauty and 
variety. Indeed, they proved a revelation to many. The vines are of 
strong and robust growth, attaining a height of from 30 to 50 feet. The 
foliage is most luxuriant, distinct and varied—some vines have rich vivid 
green leaves, others have silvery leaves, some with yellow leaves, and 
many produce leaves mottled and checkered like rich mosaics of light and 
dark green, white and gray. The intermingling vines and brightly con- 
trasting colored leaves are wonderfully pretty and effective even when the 
flowers are not open. 
But the surpassing charm of these ‘“ Imperial Japanese Morning Glories”’ 
lies in the entrancing beauty and gigantic size of the flowers; they measure 
from 4 to 6 inches across, and their greater substance causes them to 
remain open much longer than ordinary Morning Glories. The colors of 
the flowers, shadings and markings are limitless, and are really wonders of 
nature, of such incomparable beauty that descriptions are inadequate. 
Some flowers are of deep, rich velvety tones, others daintily tinted and 
shaded. The solid colors range through reds from soft rose to crimson, 
bronze and garnet maroon; from daintiest light blue to ultramarine, indigo 
and blackish purple; from snow-white to cream and silver gray. Some are 
striped, starred and spotted; others bave magnificent edges and throats. 
We especially noted a royal purple with broad white edge and a red throat, 
a blue with pink throat, a white flushed pink and a wine-red throat, a 
crimson with white throat, a carmine with white edge and red shaded 
throat, a claret purple with snow-white throat, copper color with white 
throat, etc., etc. 
The ‘‘ Imperial Japanese Morning Glories’’ are of the easiest culture. Sow 
early in a warm, sunny position in good, rich soil, and give plenty of water 
in dry weather. (See cut.) Price, per packet of mixed colors, lic. 
NEW “RUFFLED AND FRILLED” 
IMPERIAL JAPANESE MORNING GLORY. 
T is impossible to describe this most beautiful new strain as well as it 
deserves. It has, in short, attained the highest degree of perfection. 
The plants resemble in vigor, rapid growth and general habit the Imperial 
Japanese Morning Glories offered above, from which they originated. The 
flowers are very large, of quite as many colors and equally brilliant, but 
they are soruffied that they have the appearance of being double. We 
especially recommend this magnificent class. The plants produce very 
few seeds. Price, per packet, 25c. 
“IMPERIAL JAPANESE’? MORNING GLORIES. 
