PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 67 
slice” fo \, Beautiful New Poppies. 
AMERICAN FLAG. (Double Peony Flowered. A robust grower; flowers extra large, very double, 
pure white, each petal being margined with bright red. Exquisite. (Seecut.) Price per pkt., 15c. 
NANKEEN YELLOW. (Double Peony Flowered.) Large globular flowers, perfectly 
double ; color, shining nankeen yellow, an entirely new color in this family. Price 
per pkt., 25c. 
BLACK KNIGHT. (Double Peony Flowered.) Exceedingly rich black maroon. 
Splendid large double flowers. Price per pkt., lic. 
=< *BLOOD-RED MIKADO.’’ Thisisa grand variety of carnation-flowered poppy; 
ee the plants attain a height of 3 feet and bear densely double flowers of im- 
ih mense size, fully 9 inches around and of a deep and brilliant blood-red color ; 
the petals are deeply fringed and laciniated in the style of the original 
Mikado Poppy, which is illustrated on page 79. The plants begin blooming 
within a few weeks after the seed is sown, are of easy culture and unequaled 
in effect for garden decoration. Price per pkt., 25c. 
New Double Scarlet Iceland Poppy. 
(Papaver nudicaule coccineum, ji. pl.) 
The single-flowered Iceland Poppies have long been great favorites for 
garden decoration, forming low, bushy plants, which throw upin rapid succes- 
sion, throughout the summer, numbers of flower stems 10 to 12 inches high, 
= each surmounted with large, elegant, crushed satin-like flowers, which for cut- 
ting purposes are unsurpassed. This new variety bears extremely double 
orange scarlet flowers. Although Iceland Poppies are hardy perennials, yet 
they will bloom freely the first season if the seed is sown reasonably early. 
Price per pkt., 25c. 
New Rose=colored Single Iceland Poppy. 
This charming class, described on page 79, is here enriched with an exquisite 
new rose-colored variety. Price per pkt., 25c. 
“* AMERICAN FLAG ’’ POPPY. 
“Tye Fiera” AMARANTHUS. | 
(A. Superbus.) 
A splendid decorative annual for the garden. It 
isof very easy culture, attaining a height of six 
feet and a breadth of four to five feet; well fur- 
nished with large gorgeously colored leaves of a 
blood-red color, bordered with bright yellow. (See 
cut.) Price per pkt., 25c. 
Splendid Mew Petunias. 
“DIADEM.”’ An exquisite variety either for | 
garden decoration or for pot culture. Itis won- § 
derfully prolific of bloom; the fiowers, about 244 § 
inches across, almost hide the plant from view 
for months ; the colors, white and bright carmine, 
form a pronounced star of admirable effect. The # 
plants form symmetrical oval bushes about 12 § 
inches high. It is of easy culture, continuous Byoes 
and,abundant in bloom the same season from 
seed sown in the spring, which will make this a 
highly popular novelty. Price per pkt., 25c. 
*““WHITE THROATED GIANT.’’ Immense -S= MAM MOT H =eon 
single flowers of an unusually rich violet-colored 
crimson with large deep throats of a pure white ° 
which run off into veins and netting. Strikingly 
effective. Price per pkt., 25c. ] p umn 0G . 
A grand novelty of high perfection. The plantis of 
iT; | luxuriant growth, attaining in the open ground a height 
Tt of 3 feet, and producing only a single long and sturdy 
ICTORIA OUQUET TOCKS spike of bloom, closely furnished with enormous, 
' | faultlessly formed double flowers of the purest possible 
5 _ | white. Itis particularly beautiful when grown in large 
Anew strain of 10-week stocks of great beauty, | Sroupsin the garagen. (See cut.) Price per pkt., 25c. 
which are entirely distinct from all other stocks. 
Each pint forms a perfectpyramidal bouquet, the 
main flower stem rising a few inches above the 4 
side branches, all of which bear large spikes of very Pigmy Queen 10 Week 
double flowers. We offer the following separate 
colors: | Stoeks. 
GRAND WHITE. Snow-white. Price per| A valuable new introduction. The plants grow not 
pkt., 25c. over 9 inches high, of compact branching habit, produc- 
RED DOME. Dark blood-red. Price per pkt., 25c. | ing numerous umbels of large, double, rich dark blood- 
PINK OF PERFECTION. A beautiful rose | red flowers, strikingly effective for either garden beds or 
pink. Price per pkt., 25c. potculture. Price per pkt., 25c. 
MAMMOTH WHITE COLUMN STOCE. 
