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FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES 



AMARANTHUS 



TWO BEAUTIFUL 



NEW VARIETIES 



These robust annuals attain a height of from 4 to 6 feet; are very showy and effective 



garden plants, lasting long in perfection, and of the easiest culture. 



Amaranthus, Aurora. The plant is clothed from ground to tip with long, arching leaves; 

 colored rich green and bronze at the base; the foliage brightening towards the top into 

 rose-yellow, red and green Pkt. 10c. 



Abyssinian Amaranthus. This giant "love-lies-bleeding," has light green foliage, veined 

 and lightly shaded with rose, but its crowning glory is its pendent chenile-like tassels of 

 red, measuring up to 2 feet in length and borne in immense clusters Pkt. 10c. 



AMBERBOA MURICATA ROSEA 



A new and extremely 

 free blooming hardy an- 

 nual, 1 Vs to 2 feet in height, 

 producing numerous large 

 Centaurea or Cornflower- 

 like flowers, about 2 inches 

 in diameter, of a pleasing 

 light pink. The flowers 

 retain their freshness in 

 water for several days and : 

 are borne on long stems. 

 Well adapted for cutting 

 and vases V P£(. 20c ; 



Anchusa ... 

 Capensis ... 

 Atrocoerulea 



A new variety of this 



f>retty garden annual with 

 arge For-get-me-not-like 

 flowers of dark ultrama- 

 rine blue, a rare color 

 among annuals and per- 

 fectly distinct from the 

 type species; height 18 to 

 20 inches, and very free- 

 blooming. Pkt. 10c. 



GIANTFLOWER1NG ANTIRRHINUM. 



These form brilliant garden beds, flowering profusely and continuously the first season j 

 from seed. Unusually effective bedding displays are made from these noble plants; they grow ' 

 about 2 feet high, are healthy and stocky, and completely enveloped with large snap-dragon 

 flowers of splendid texture and substance, rendering them very durable under all conditions of . 

 weather; their continuous-blooming qualities, ease of culture and independence of heat .and 

 drought, and pure, bright colors, should entitle them to a permanent place in gardens. Although • 

 perennials, they do splendidly when grown as annuals; spring-sown seed produces flowering ! 

 plants by July, which continue to bloom in increasing profusion until frost. The flowers are ', 

 nearly double the size of the older sorts. (See cut). 

 Giant-flowering. Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. 



Giant Yellow Queen. Pure yellow 10c. 



Giant Scarlet. Brightest scarlet 10c. 



Giant Niobe. Garnet, with white throat.. 10c. 



Giant Rose. Delicate rosy-pink 10c. 



Giant Striped. Yellow, striped red. . . Pkt. 10c. 



Giant White. Pure snow-white 10c. 



Cottage Maid. A beautiful new variety, 



colored coral pink, with a white throat. 10c. 

 Collection of 6 separate colors 50c. 



ANTIRRHINUM 



Semi^Dwarf, Large-Flowering ANTIRRHINUM. 



A beautiful class extensively used in Europe for bedding and should be better known 

 here. These semi-dwarf varieties produce as large flowers as the tall sorts, while the plants 

 are of compact, bushy growth, only a foot high, and are completely enveloped with flowers 

 throughout summer and fall. 

 Semi-Dwarf, Albino, new. Creamy white flushed soft pink . . . .Pkt. 1.5c, 



" Picturatum, new. Beautifully blotched and spotted . 10c. 



" White 10c. 



" Yellow 10c. 



" Scarlet 10c. 



" Coral-rose 10c. 



" Mixed Colors 10c. 



The Collection, 1 pkt. each of above 6 separate colors . . . 50c. 



NEW DOUBLE. 

 FLOWERING . 



Quite a new departure in the class of tall, large- 

 flowering "snap dragons." The plants in flower are 

 about 3 feet in height and bear freely during summer 

 and fall, long spikes of immense double flowers, that 

 is; out of the mouth-like aperture, between the up- 

 per and lower lips, abnormal fantastic petals emerge 

 which give a double beard-like aspect to the very 

 large flowers. The effect of this phenomenon is strik- 

 ingly effective. 60 to 70 % of the seedlings will come 

 true — the balance being large flowering singles. 



Double White Antirrhinum, pure white Pkt. 25c. 



Double Red Antirrhinum, purplish-red lighted in the 

 throat with yellow and white Pkt. 15c, 



ARNEBIA CORNUTA 



A charming annual, growing in bushy form about 2 feet 

 high and about the same breadth. It blooms with profusion 

 the whole summer. Beautiful flowers, % of an inch across, 

 of a rich primrose-yellow, marked with five black spots; the spots 

 change on the second day to a rich maroon, and on the third day 

 vanish, leaving the flower a clear, bright yellow Pkt. 10- 



Giant Antirrhinum 



These improved "Snap Dragons" are most satis- 

 factory garden plants, flowering profusely until 

 frost. 



Henderson's Choice Collections of Flower Seeds ° P age 72" will furnish a Complete Garden Supply at a saving of one-third. 



