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Henderson's Ever-Blooming Annual Hollyhock. 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR 



J)o(ibIe ijardi) jjoll^ocks 



received the highest award at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. 



Grand summer and autumn flowering plants, bearing long spikes of double flowers, 3 

 to 4 inches across. They are old inhabitants of our gardens, but are now so improved 

 in doubleness and enlarged in size, under our special culture and hybridization, as 

 to be revelations of gorgeous beauty to those who have not seen these improved sorts. 

 Hardy biennial, 5 to 8 feet high. The seed we offer has been saved from our unrivaled 

 collection of choicest improved double varieties. 



Double Blush Pkt. .10 



Canary- Yellow 10 



" Crimson 10 



" Deep Rose 10 



" Lavender 10 



" Light Apricot 10 



" Black 10 



Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties 



Double Maroon Pkt. .10 



" Pink 10 



" Purple 10 



" Salmon 10 



" White 10 



" " Violet Center 10 



1,000 seeds, 50c. . . . Pkt. .10 



IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Superior Double Hardy Hollyhocks. 

 6 Separate colors 40c. 12 Separate colors 75c. 



" The H ollyhoek seed I hod of you two pears ago I planted in a large mound, and last 

 summer they were just lovely and much admired by all who saw them." 



Mrs. I. T. BROWN ELL, Little Compton, R. I. 

 "The Hollyhocks from you last season were much superior to any ever seen here by 

 any one. I have never seen such magnificent Hollyhocks either Xorth or South." 



II". //. CHADBOURX. Wilmington, N. C. 



HENDERSON'S EVER-BLOOMING 



J\rmtial fjoll^ocks 



EVERY GARDEN MAY NOw" BE GLORIFIED 

 "WITH QUEENLY HOLLYHOCKS GROwTNT AS EASILY 

 AND FLOWERING AS QUICKLY FROM SEED AS 

 ANY GARDEN ANNUAL. 



The old favorite Hollyhock can seldom be flowered from seed before 

 the second year, and as the young plants frequently winter-kill, it has 

 limited the cultivation of the Hollyhock to those willing to give the 

 young plants special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in grow- 

 ing our new hybrid Hollyhocks, for they flower the first season from 

 seed, which may be started in the house or hotbed from February to 

 April, or be sown in the open ground in May. 



The plants from early-sown seed set out in May commence blooming 

 in July, the May-sown in August, and in either event they flower profusely 

 until frost. 



The flower buds, borne in clusters, vary in maturity from the devel- 

 oping bud to the expanding flower; this characteristic accounts for 

 the remarkably long flowering period, and, besides, the plants continu- 

 ously push out side branches as well as new spikes from the base, all 

 of which also develop their quota of flowers almost ad infinitum. Open 

 flowers sometimes encircle the spikes compactly — veritable columns of 

 bloom — but usually the flowers expand in irregular groups, wherever the 

 buds are strongest, in a charmingly informal fashion. 



The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many 

 delightful surprises. Some plants produce densely double flowers 

 without guards, others with guard petals; there are semi-doubles, then 

 single sorts with small double or anemone-flowered centers, and single 

 saucer-shaped flowers; some with smooth-edged petals, others flounced, 

 fringed, etc., etc., and all flowers are usually very large, some measuring 

 five inches across. In colors there is also great variety, some richly 

 brilliant, others dainty and exquisite, then there are colors and tints 

 blended in charming combinations. There are maroon, black, pink, 

 chamois-rose, apricot with garnet throat, crimson, canary-yellow, pink 

 with claret throat and veins, blush with carmine lacings, cerise, white, 

 geranium-scarlet, blush with white throat, magenta, apricot with buff 

 margin, wine-red with white edge, etc., etc. 



The plants are of vigorous and healthy growth and naturally branch- 

 ing in habit. The center spike, if not pinched, attains a height of from 

 8 to 10 feet, after which, if permitted, the side shoots from the base 

 commence to lengthen, growing candelabra-like, 3 to 5 feet long. The 

 plants are amenable to training; that is, the main stem may be kept at 

 any desired height by pinching out the tip, or it may be kept low and 

 induce earlier development in the side branches, thus forming a bush. 



Of course, these Hollyhocks, making such luxuriant growth in such 

 a short time and blooming so abundantly, should be sustained for best 

 and continuous results by planting them in deeply dug, thoroughly 

 enriched soil; water liberally in dry weather. 



PRICE OF SEED 



Henderson's VC Ann^T mg Hollyhocks. 



Grand Combination Mixture of doubles, semi-doubles and singles, 

 including all colors, shades and variegations. 



Per Pkt. (about 50 seeds), 15c; Per 500 Seeds, $1.00. 



IN PRAISE OF HENDERSON'S EVER-BLOOMING 

 ANNUAL HOLLYHOCKS: 



" The Ever-blooming Hollyhocks flowered practically all summer. 

 You have in this new race one of the most desirable novelties sent out in 

 years." WM. X. CRAIG, Sunt. Gardener, 



F. I.. AMES' ESTATE, "Long Water Gardens," Xorth Easton. Mass. 



"I have never known such fine Hollyhocks as crime from your Ever- 

 blooming kind, the seeds of which were planted in the open ground last 

 A jiril. They began to flower the last of July and I had six, eight or ten 

 spikes on nearly every plant. One CAXXOT praise them enough." 



HELEX J. RIPLEY, Brookline, Mass. 



"Last year I got a package of your Ever-blooming Hollyhock seed from 

 whirl? the plants commenced blooming the 4th of July and are blooming 

 yet (January 13th); in fact, look as fresh and beautiful as when they 

 first commenced." 



R. CHARLTOX, Los Angeles, Cal. 



' We furnish Complete Cultural Instructions for these Hollyhocks with every Packet of Seed. "^ 



