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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 
Leopard Leaved 
Japanese Hop. 
(HUMULUS JAPONICUS, FOL. VAR.) 
A strikingly beautiful annual climber of exceedingly rapid and dense 
growth, attaining a height of from 20 to 30 feetin a few weeks’ time. The 
leaves of rich green are blotched and marked with white and gray in 
indescribable confusion. For covering arbors, verandas, trellises, etc., 
we know of nothing more beautiful, and it is never troubled with insects. 
(See cut to the left.) Price, per packet of 12 seeds, 25c. 
Tropzolum Lobbianum, « Prince Bismarck.”’ 
This isthe most gorgeous summer climber we have ever seen, and we 
haveseen nota few. ‘The plant makes a rapid luxuriant growth of about 
10 feet, and within a few weeks’ time commences to bloom, flaunting 
before passersby, who stand spell-bound with admiration; flowers of such 
magnificent scarlet, rich and fiery, that no word-painting is adequate. The 
flowers increase in profusion as the season advances, until the entire plant 
is clothed—until cut down by frost—with a scarlet of lustrous sheen ora 
depth of velvet, as the breeze shifts the flowers into different lights. For 
climbing around summer-houses, trellises, verandas, or trailing from win- 
dow boxes or vases, the “Prince Bismarck” Troprolum isa gem. (See cut 
to the right.) Price, per packet, 25c. 
LEOPARD-LEAVED JAPANESE HOP. 
New ‘« Guillaud ’”’ Pinks. 
TROPEOLUM, ‘‘ PRINCE BISMARCE.”” 
«‘Little Tlidget’’ Roses. 
A very meritorious novelty. 
The only strain of Pinks blooming the first season that contains yellow. 
This new race originated with M. Guillaud, a celebrated French specialist, and, 
like the Dianthus Margarit, they contain considerable Carnation blood and yet pos- 
sess all of the profuse and early blooming qualities of the annual Dianthus. The 
‘*Guillaud’’ Pinks bloom profusely in the summer and autumn from spring- 
sown seed; the flowers are very large, of perfect shape, very fragrant and last a 
longer time, either cut ‘or on the plants, than D. Margarite. The seeds which we 
offer in mixture contain a magnificent variety of colors and shades, and, making 
this strain still more valuable, they contain flowers of clear yellow and others with 
yellow stripes. They are equally adapted for open ground and pot culture. Mixed 
Colors, price, per packet, 35 cents. 
New Double Yellow Phlox, 
These little roses belong to the Polyanthas or Jap- 
anese many-flowered section. The roses are only about an inch across, usually 
very double, but occasionally semi-double and seldom single; they are borne in 
many-flowered clusters and contain all the tints of cultivated roses. What is most 
remarkable, these “Little Midget” roses grow only 10 inches high and commence 
blooming in a few weeks after the seed is sown. At first the flowers are isolated, 
but they group themselves as the plant advances and continue year after year to 
bloom in uninterrupted profusion from May until frost. Price, per packet, 25c. 
Lobelia, «‘Gold Leaf.’’ 
A new bedding variety of the Erinus Compacta type, with golden yellow foliage 
and brilliant blue flowers. The plants form compact little mounds of gold 4 to6 
inches high, bearing in exhaustless continuity myriads of deep blue flowers, form- 
ing a contrast of striking beauty. For - 
carpet bedding masses and borders they 
will be‘unique and effective. Blooms 
the first season from seed. Price, per 
packet, 25c. 
‘P. DRUMMONDI ISABELLINA, FL. PL. 
An exquisite introduction of annual garden phloxes. The plants of this variety 
are very bushy and branching, attaining a height of 15 to 18 inches, and bearin 
great freedom large umbels of double flowers of a charming yellow. Price, per 
packet, 25c e e E = 
New Single [arigold, «‘ Little Brownie.”’ 
A charming single-flowering pigmy Marigold, forming compact little bushes only 
5 to 6 inches high, producing a fine effect when grown in masses and unrivaled for 
borders. It is remarkable for blossoming extremely early and in prodigious abun- 
dance, commencing in June from spring-sown seed, blooming more and more as the 
season advances. The duration of the flowers and the great resistance of the plant to 
drought is marvelous; should it be so dry that the foliage disappears, yet the 
flowersare perfected. The latter are vividly colored yellow or gold, marked as 
with a graver, with alarge spot of brown velvet. (See cut.) Price, per pkt., 25c. 
New Tom Thumb Dahlias. 
The new single Dahlias form little compact bushy plants only 
about 12 inches high by 24 inches across. They bloom in great 
abundance the first season from spring-sown Seed, producing flowers 
of the most unique and exquisite colors and combinations of colors, 
spotted and striped, margined, ringed,etc.,etc. The colors range 
through yellows, white, scar- 
let, maroon, pink, etc. (See 
cut.) Price, per packet of |; 
mixed colors, 25c. 
The Orchid Salpi-= 
glossis, 
‘PURPLE AND GOLD.” 
A grand new color in this 
splendid class of garden an- 
nuals. The large flowers, 3 
to 4 inches across, are of 
rich yelvety purple, exqui- 
sitely veined and feathered 
with yellow or gold—an ef- 
fective combination, rival 
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