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BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLANTING ^ 



HIGH CRADS> 



DUTCH HYACINTHS. 



The Hyacinth is probably ihe most, -useful and popular hardy bulb grown. It delights millions of flower 

 lovers throughout the wcrld with its matchless beauty and rare fragrance. Every home may be cheered and every 

 garden may be glorified in spring with the sweet breath, beautiful colors and buxomly formed trusses of wax-like 

 flowers for the Hyacinth is amenable to the most diverse treatment, endures most severe hardships, and blooms 

 most gratifyingly in winter or spring as desired., 



The Hyacinth may be grown in pots or in glasses of water, or in the garden. The colors, shades and tints are 

 wonderfully varied, from purest white through blush, pink, rose, etc.. to deepest red, and from daintiest porcelain 

 through blues to black purple, from cream through yellows to orange and rosy apricot, etc. Named varieties 

 produce the finest trusses of bloom, and should always be selected for specimens in pots or glasses; of course, first 

 size bulbs of named hyacinths are equally superior for gardens and bedding when the price can be afforded, 

 though the cheaper grades (as offered on page 6) are extensively used for bedding, garden borders or for 

 forcing in quantity for winter cut flowers. 



HENDERSON'S HYACINTHS GIVE SATISFACTION : 



" Our Hyaci :ths liave bee:: ilie admiration of the whole -.city, and we have 

 given you tlte credit for sending us such fine bulbs. We had'-single ones 

 that measured 5 to 8 incites from top to bottom of bloom and 3 to 

 4 indies in diameter." EDWARD PROCTOR, Rome, Ga, 



•• The bulbs purcliased from you last fall are 

 doi^g well, one XX Hyacinth in bloom 

 th2 Gen. Pcllissicr, shows 30 b lis." 

 W. V. WENTWORTH 

 Great W r orks, Ale. 



ENCHANTRESS. 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR 



"XX" NAMED HYACINTHS. 



Exhibition Bulbs for Pots and Glasses. 



In this grade we offer the largest and best bulbs that the varieties produce. Some 

 kinds of course, make larger bulbs than others, but purchasers, of Henderson's " XX " Hyacinths 

 may rely on getting the pick of the crop. These selected "top roots" as the Hollanders call them, 

 naturally cost a little more than the run of first size bulbs but are worth the difference where largest spikes 

 furnished with the greatest number of bells are desired for pots, glasses and exhibition, for the flowers of 

 Hyacinths in an incipient form are stored in the hearts of the bulbs before maturity, exactly as they 

 afterwards develop; so that if you purchase younger, cheaper bulbs, containing in embryo fewer bells on a spike, 

 no system of culture can make them produce more that season. Therefore, for the finest results the best, oldest 

 and largest bv.lbs (within certain limits) should be chosen, for these usually contain the most perfect and 

 greatest number of flowers. 



H enderson's FIRST SIZE NAMED HYACINTHS. 



Splendid Bulbs for Bedding and Forcing. 



These bulbs are of the same age as our " XX " grade and are the run of the crop after the " top roots " are 

 selected out. They are large, solid, fine bulbs and usually chosen for growing in pans, forcing in flats and for 

 bedding on account of their moderate price. 



The figures 1 , 2, 3 and 4 after the name of the Hyacinth indicates the relative time of flowering — the I 's flower 

 together and are the earliest, No. 4 the latest. 



FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 



We supply 6 bulbs of one kind at the dozen rate. 25 at the hundred rate, 250 at the thousand rate. 



Henderson's Book " BULB GULTURE," newly revised edition, price 50c, given free if asked for when orders for Bulbs amount to $3.00 or over. 



