34 PETER HENDERSON & CO.'S CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. 



OENOTHERA (Evening Primrose.) per pkt. 



A very beautiful, free-flowering, and useful class of plants, flowering generally in 

 long spikes. (E. Lamarekiana lias a superb spike of bloom, and is one of the 

 showiest yellow flowers grown. OE. bistorta Yeitchii is a pretty edging plant, 

 and may be grown in rockeries. jE. Drummondii is a wonderfully free- 

 blooming variety, flowering for months continuously. 



(Enothera Bistorta Veitchii. Yellow with crimson spots. Half-hardy annual, 1 ft 10 



Drummondi. Yellow. Half-hardy annual, 2 ft 10 



Lamarekiana. Bright yellow flowers, 3 to 4 in. in diameter, and produced 



in great profusion ; a splendid ornamental plant. Hardy perennial, 3 ft.... 10 



Macrocarpa. Primrose, large blooms. Hardy perennial, -I it 10 



Fine Mixed Varieties 10 



OXALIS. 



Very attractive and beautiful plants, with richly-colored flowers, suitable for green- 

 house decoration, or for rock-work, rustic baskets, and out of doors. Half- 

 hardy perennials. 



Oxalis Rosea. A neat, erect-growing plant, with bright rose-colored flowers, f ft 10 

 Tropseoloides. Deep yellow, brown leaves, ^ ft 10 



Valdiviana. A new, very showy, and compact-growing variety, flowers of a 



bright yellow, sweet scented, and produced in bunches of large size, which 



are thrown well above the foliage 10 



PANSY or HEARTSEASE (Viola Tricolor.) 



This beautiful flower is too well-known to need any description. Seed sown in 

 spring should not be allowed to blossom until the latter end of September. 

 Pick off the buds as they appear during the summer months, this will cause 

 the plants to grow bushy and compact, and will bloom profusely during the 

 late autumn and early spring months. Seed sown in August and September 

 and kept in a cold frame through the winter, and planted out in spring, will 

 blossom freely the whole season. The seed we offer has been saved from the 

 most distinct and best-named imported varieties. Hardy perennials. 



Pansy, Engvish. Very fine mixed ' 25 



Extra Choice. From a superb collection 50 



Odier, or Five-Blotched. Anew and beautiful strain, perfect in size and 



form of flo wer, as we 1 as in beauty and v. ariety of color 50 



Faust, or King of the Blacks. Deep black, very remarkable 20 



"White. Fine pure 25 



Yellow. Pure golden 25 



Sky-blue. Very beautiful 20 



Striped (Fancy. ) Beautiful variegated 25 



Violet, bordered white. Fine varieties 25 



Gold-margined. Very fine 25 



Good Mixed I 10 



PALAVA. 



Palava Flexuosa. A beautiful dwarf, bushy annual, from 15 to 18 inches in 

 height, producing in the greatest profusion its charming flowers of a bright 

 rosy pink, fading slightly toward the centre, whilst the base of the sepals 

 is almost black. It succeeds admirably either in the open air, or as a de- 

 corative plant for the green-house or conservatory, and is altogether one of 

 the most strikiug and effective novelties of recent introduction 10 



PENTSTEfflON. 



Handsome, herbaceous plants, remarkable for the beauty and fine effect of their 

 long, graceful, richly-colored flower spikes; will bloom the first year if sown 

 early in March, in a hot-bed, and planted out in May. Half-hardy perennials. 



Pentstenion Grandiflorurn. Light blue, hardv, from Nebraska, 2 ft 10 



Lobbi. Yellow; fine, 1^ ft 10 



Murrayanuni. Scarlet, very handsome, 2 ft 25 



Pulchellum. Rosy purple, free-flowering, 1 ft 10 



Fine Mixed Varieties 10 



