PETER HENDERSON & GO., NEW YORK.—FLOWER SEEDS. 
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(See the Illustration, from a Photograph, on the opposite page.) 
GLORIOUSLY beautiful acquisition has been obtained in this New White Sweet Pea that has not only excited the enthusiasm 
of ourselves, but of other experts to whom last season we gave a few seeds for trial. 
The ‘‘ Emily Henderson” not 
only surpasses in every way all other varieties of Sweet Peas, but it is the unanimous opinion of all who have seen it 
that it is the most valuable addition made to our list of Flower Seeds in twenty years. 
THIS NEW SWEET PEA, ‘‘ EMILY HENDERSON,” originated as a sport in a field of that splendid variety, ‘‘ Blanche Ferry.” 
a pink and white flowered sort, exceedingly popular with both amateurs and florists. 
«Blanche Ferry” its distinctive value has been reproduced in the younger variety. 
Every meritorious quality which has given 
More than that—in ‘+ Emily Henderson” 
are to be found qualities that place it far above any other Sweet Pea of which we have any knowledge. 
Its color is as pure as the driven snow; all other so- | 
called whites have eithera green or dull yellow keel. Holdasingle 
blossom of the ‘‘ Emily Henderson” up to the light and the dainti- 
est flush is barely perceptible, a delicate suggestion of the pink 
To test the possibilities of this variety, and to see how 
many flowers a plant would produce, we planted the past season 
| a single seed entirely apart from all others, giving the plant good 
| culture and cutting off the sprays as they came in bloom from 
blood of the parent variety, and only just enough to show its pedi- | 
gree and give to the flowers the lustrous tone and texture of satin. 
We have had several improvements in late years in white Sweet 
Peas, but until this beauty burst upon our gaze none were free 
from the green or yellow taint. 
The flowers are large, equaling in size those of ‘‘ Boreat- 
ton,’’ the acknowledged giant of the Eckfords; they are of great 
substance, and, in form, perfection; broad and round and without 
the slightest tendency to reflex or curl, so common in large flowers 
of the Eckford type. 
Its prodigal abundance of bloom is phenomenal ; where 
other varieties produce two flowers on a stem the ‘‘ Emily Hen- 
derson” bears never less than three and nearly as often four, and 
it is not unusual to find stems bearing five or six flowers each, and 
occasionally we have found them with seven. 
one squarely in the face. 
value for cutting. 
The strong stems give the variety an added 
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OF SEEDS OF THE GRAND NEW WHITE 
time to time. At the end of the summer we had cut the almost 
incredible quantity of 1,035 sprays of bloom—not individual 
flowers, but sprays—from one plant. 
In Earliness of Bloom the ‘‘ Emily Henderson” outrivals all 
competitors by nearly two weeks, and it also holds longer—a veri- 
| table ‘‘ cut-and-come-again”’ to the end of summer. 
The stems are stiff | 
and long and so boldly support the flowers that they seem to look | 
The Fragrance is most delicious and powertul and dis- 
tinct from any other variety. The perfume-laden air from our 
field of three acres was truly enchanting, and on dull mornings 
and evenings could be scented half a mile away. 
The plants are robust, very branchy and of compact habit, 
about four feet high, and if not supported and not planted too 
closely they form bushy plants averaging only three feet high and 
are so completely covered with flowers that a field of them looks 
as if it had been visited by a heavy snow-storm. 
For Florists’ Forcing under glass the ‘‘ Emily Hender- 
son”? Sweet Pea is bound to outstrip all others on account of its 
color, earliness, profusion, short, stocky growth, and the immense 
size of its long-stemmed flowers. ; 
Lee 
SWEET PEA, “EMILY HENDERSON ” :——— 
25 cts. per packet; 3 packets for 60 cts.; 6 packets for $1.00, free by mail. 
On every packet of the avoye will be printed a full and complete essay on the cultivation of Sweet Peas, 
telling plainly the most recent and approved methods of growing this fashionable flower to the highest perfection. 
