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PETER HENDERSON & CO.- UNRlVALiED FliOWER SEEDS. 



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Being Varieties mat Bloom tto first season. 



SALPIGLOSSIS. 



( Painted Tube Tongue.) 

 One of the most beautiful of flowering 

 annuals, forming strong bushy plants about 

 18 inches high, and bearing throughout the 

 season large flowers of many beautiful colors, 

 all exquisitely veined and laced. 

 Large Flowering Mixed. (Seecut.). .Pkt. 10 

 Imported collection of 6 separate Boris, 50 cts.- 



SANVITALIA, 



Procumbens fl. pi. Beautiful trailing annual, 

 well adapted from its dwarf and compaet 

 growth for covering beds in the flower 

 garden; the double flowers are large in 

 proportion to the plant, and are of a rich 

 brown and yellow. Pkt. 10 



SCABIOSA. 



(Sweet Scabious.) 

 The "Mourning Bride " of our old gardens, 

 but much improved in size, colors and double- 

 ness. They are very free bloomers, the colors 

 white, carmine, lilac, maroon, etc. They are 

 very effective for garden decoration, and equal- 

 ly valuable for cutting purposes. (See cut.) 



Mixed Dwarf Double. 1 ft Pkt. . 5 



Imported collection of 6 different colors, 30 cts. 



New Leviathan Scabiosa. 



Many of the flowers measure six to nine 

 inches in circumference, and double clear to 

 the centre, having long stems. (See cut.) 

 We offer three distinct varieties : 

 "Royal Purple." Bich claret color. .Pkt. 15 

 "Snowball." Large pure white. (Seecut.) 15 

 "Beaten Gold." (Aurantiaca.) New and 

 a novel color, a beautiful golden yellow. . 15 

 Maxima Plena, Mixed. New, large flower- 

 ing, tall double sorts 5 



• SALVIA. 



One of our handsomest summer and 

 autumn flowering plants growing into com- 

 pact bushes about 3 feet high and literally 

 ablaze with brilliant flowers; very effective 

 for massing- on. the lawn and for garden 

 decoration; perennials, but bloom first 

 season from seed. (See cut.) 



Patens Bright blue Pkt. 25 



Splendens. (Scarlet Sage.) Scarlet. ... 10 

 Coccinea Lactea. Pure milk white. Height, 



2 ft. (Annual) ... 10 



SCHIZANTHXJS. 



(Butter- Fly Flower.) 



Fine Mixed. Beautiful garden annuals, 



growing from 1 to 2 feet high ; flowers 



beautifully frinced and delicately colored 



and marked. (See cut.) Pkt. 5 



STOCKS or GIIXI- 



FLOWER. 



Dwarf Large Flowering Double 



Ten Weeks. 



These well-known favorites require no 

 description; they are indispensable to all 

 lovers of flowers ; the "Stocks of to-day" are 

 greatly superior to the old types, the flowers 

 being mu ch larger and extra double. 



Pore "White . . Pkt. 10 Mahogany -.-. . 10 



Canary Yellow. . 10 Bright Rose 10. 



Sky Blue 10 Copper Red 10 



Blood Red. 10 Carmine Rose . : . 10 



Double Mixed, Large Flowering 10 



Wall Flower Leaved, Mixed. Double. 15 

 Dwarf Pyramidal. Mixed. Beautiful sort 15 

 Snowflake. A beautiful dwarf growing va- 

 riety ; very large double snow-white flow- 

 ers; very early.. 15 



Cut and Come Again. This grows about 

 two feet high if sown early ; it produces 

 from spring to late in the fall pure white, 

 beautifully shaped double flowers. ' It 

 throws out numbers of side branches, each 

 of which bears- a cluster of blossoms, and 

 the oftener they are cut the better they 



seem to like it 25 



Fine Double Mixed. 10 Weeks Stock. . . 5 



Henderson's 



New Colossal Stocks. 



This magnificent strain is without a rival. 



The spikes of bloom and individual flowers 



are enormous in size and very double. 



El Dorado. Bright sulphur yellow. .Pkt. 20 



Rosy Morn. Delicate rosy flesh 20 



Mount Blanc. Purest White 20 



Grand Rouge. Brilliant crimson 20 



Aurora. Shining copper red 20 



Blue Bells. Pretty shade of blue........ 20 



Collection of above 6 varieties \ . . .$1 00 



Colossal Stocks, Mixed Colors .. 20 



Intermediate or Autumn Stock. 



Double Mixed. Including many sorts, Pkt. 10 

 Biennial Stock. 



Brompton. Finest Mixed. Large flowering 

 double Pkt. 10 



Emperor or Perpetual, Mixed. Large 

 flowering double, frequently lasts for 

 several years if protected 10 



Imported Collections of Stocks. 



Brompton or Winter Flowering. In 12 sepa- 

 rate colors Per collection, 75 



Dwarf German Ten Weeks. In 12 separate 



colors, 75 cts.. in 6 separate colors 50 



Dwarf Pyramidal. In 6 separate colors . . 50 



Emperor. In 6 separate colors 50 



Intermediate. In 6 separate colors 50 



Refer to the Index (2d page Cover) for Flower Seeds you cannot readily find. 



