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HENDERSON'S SELECTED 



POPPY SEEDS 



Double Carnation-Flowered 



3440 Thrifty, upright varieties, 2 feet high; flowers of large globular 

 form with slashed or fringed petals. Colors and combinations 

 beautiful and varied. Mixed Colors. (See No. 1 on ensfraving.) 



Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. 10c. 



3441 Imported Collection of Double Carnation-flowered Poppies, 6 

 varieties, 25c. 



"Double Featherball" 



344S These double-fringed annual Poppies are very beautiful; they 

 belong to the Carnation-flowered type, the large flowers having 

 the same globe-shaped formation; with gracefully fringed-edged 

 petals like big balls of slashed tissue-paper or feathers; plants 

 of dwarf branching growth, only 15 to 18 inches high, each plant 

 carrying several of these large exquisite flowers. 

 Mixed_Colors Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. 10c. 



Henderson's Giant Double 



"BRILLIANT BLEND" 



3455 These annual Poppies are sturdy, luxuriant growers abottt 2J^ 

 feet high, bearing immense double flowers 4 to 5 inches in 

 diameter, or as large as Peonies. Some of the flowers have 

 broad, round, smooth-edged petals, and are of imposing effect; 

 others have lacinated and fringed edges which add a charming 

 grace; but the climaxing merit of all is the wonderful variety 

 of coloring, ranging »rom the most gorgeous crimson through 

 innumerable shades to purest white; many are also biuiitd 

 blended and edged with other colors. When 

 grown in masses the floral panorama is of a 

 most unimagined beauty. They are of the 

 easiest possible culture; the seed onlv, 

 needs to be sown thinly in May tiher^^' 

 the plants are to remain. j 



"Brilliant Blend Mixture.'! 

 Per IfiW seeds, 25c. 



Peroz., 50c.; Pkt. 10c. 



Double Peony-Flowerea \ v:. 



3460 Robust plants, 2 feet high, with im- f 

 mense double, peony-like flowers, 3 vo\' 

 4 inches in diameter, in many beauti- 

 ful colors and combinations. ' - 

 Mixed Colors, Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. 10c.'\'^; 



English Scarlet Field 



8466 The famous Scarlet Poppy of the English fields. 

 Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. lOo, 



Flanders 



3466 The scarlet Poppy of the fields of Flanders, made famous 



in the song and story of the great war, and familiar to all the 

 members of the A. E. F. who served in Belgium and France. 

 Adopted by the American Legion for their emblem. 



They do not attain as large a size as a well grown Shirley 

 Poppy, but apart from the sentiment now attached to them, they 

 are a decided acquisition. They flower the first season from 

 spring-grown seed. Per oz., 50c.; per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. lOo. 



ICELAND (Papaver nudicaule) 



Although hardy perennials, these dwarf Poppies bloom the first 

 season from spring-sown seed. The fargrant, elegant, crushed-satin- 

 like flowers are produced in never-ceasing succession from the 

 beginning of June to October; fine for cutting. 



3472 Scarlet Pkt. lOc. 



3474 White Pkt. lOc. 



3476 Yellow Pkt. lOc. 



3480 Mixed Colors Per 1,000 seeds, 50c.; Pkt. 10c. 



Henderson's Giant Shirley 



A great advance in single annual Poppies. The flowers are immense, often 4 

 inches across, the petals are fluted and crinkled and in the sunlight appear like 

 rumpled satin. The plants are well branched, about 12 inches high, and bloom in 

 continuous succession for weeks. There are white, white-splashed, crimson, rose 

 banded with white, salmon, carmine, blush, scarlet, and many splashed, striped, 

 dotted, edged, etc. If cut in the bud state and the stems put in water, the flowers 

 will open as well as on the plant, and the effect of a vase of Shirley Poppies is 

 immensely graceful and beautiful. (See No. 2 o» engraving.) • 



3470 Mixed Colors Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. lOo. 



Giant Oriental Hardy 



poppy. Giant Orzenial 



Among hardy perennials these hold an unrivaled position for gorgeous effectiveness 

 in gardens and hardy borders; height, 2 to 3 feet; flowers immense, often 6 inches or 

 more across. They are also grand, cut in bud state, for vases. The seed should be 

 sown in the open ground in June or July in order to bloom the following summer. 

 (See engraving.) 



3432 Beauty of Livermere. Crimson with black blotch Pkt. 15c. 



3483 Colosseum. Flowers 8 inches across. Color, rich, shiny, dark scarlet, with a 



black spot at the base of each petal Pkt. 15c. 



3485 Princess Victoria Louise. Salmon-scarlet Pkt. 15c. 



3487 Rembrandt. Orange-scarlet Pkt. 15c. 



3489 Salmon Queen. Salmon-yellow Pkt. 15c. 



3490 Oriental Hybrids, Mixed Colors Per 1.000 seeds. 50c. ; Pkl. 10c. 



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