PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— PLANT DEPARTMENT. 



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Ready in October. 6 



CHINESE AZALEAS. 



No plant has increased in popularity during recent years with 

 such Hmazing rapidity as the Chinese Azalea. A few years ago 

 the annual importation would hardly ex< eed twenty-five thou- 

 sand, to-day it probably reaches two hundred and fifty thou- 

 sand. At Easter they are seen in every church and in the 

 windows of our finest residences throughout the country. 



DOUBLE-FLOWERED AZALEAS. 



A. Borsig. A pure white, floe flower and form. 

 Apollo. Large semi-double flower ; blood-red. 

 Bernard Andrea Alba. Very fine double white. 

 Concorde d'Orange. A grand double red. 

 Dame Matson. Clear white, red markings. 

 Deutsche Perle. Pure white ; fine for forcing. 

 Docteur de Moor. Intense rose and violet. 

 Empereur de Bresil. Double pink, edged white. 

 Illustration. Pink, marked white ; a very pretty sort. 

 Imperatrice des Indes. Rose, edged white. 

 Mme. Camille. White, striped and stained red. 

 Mme. Van der Cruysseu. Bright rose. (See cut.) 

 Niobe. Fine double white of extra substance. 

 Raphael. Pure white, double flower of fine form ; late. 

 Simon Madner. Large flower ; intense rose. 

 Vervaeniana. A beautiful rose, deeply edged with white and spot- 

 ted slightly with rosy red on the lower part of 1 he upper petals. 



SINGLE>FLOWERED AZALEAS. 



Apollon. Large, single white, sparingly lined red. 

 Eugene Mazel. Salmon rose, upper lobes violet. 

 Mme. de Grevy. Flesh color, spotted crimson. 

 Queen of Whites. Very fine, pure white. 

 Roi d'Hollande. Blood-red, spotted black. 

 Sigismond Rucker. Lilac rose, striped white. 

 Versicolor. Pure white, heavily striped deep red. 



Fine plants, 14 to 16 inches across, $1.50 each, $15.00 per doz. ; 

 12 to 14 inches, SI. 00 each, $9.00 per doz. ; 10 to 12 inches, 60c. 

 each, $6.00 per doz. (Ready in October.) 



The plant shown 

 above measured 18 

 inches across. 



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Acalypha Sanderii, the "Comet Plant." 

 (The illustration shows a plant two feet high.) 



. THE . 



"Comet Plant" 



(Acalypha Sanderii.) 



For all purposes of ornament and 

 decoration, this large crimson-scarlet- 

 flowered Acalypha amply fulfils every 

 requirement. For the plant houses, 

 conservatories or rooms— and under 

 all and every condition where a start- 

 ling and beautiful effect is needed — 

 nothing can equal it. Its easy cul- 

 ture, freedom of growth and perpetual 

 flowering characters are indispensa- 

 ble recommendations. From January 

 to December it can be had in blossom, 

 and with quite ordinary attention. 



It can be grown on single stems, 

 as bushes, as standards, or trained to 

 almost any shape. 



For table decoration and for cutting, 

 each long, brilliant, scarlet-crimson 

 inflorescence will prove indispensable ; 

 their highly ornamental effect cannot 

 be overestimated. (See cut.) 



Price, first size plants, in bloom, 

 $1.00 each, $9.00 per doz ; second size 

 plants, in bloom, 60c. each, $6.00 per 

 doz. ; third size, young plants from 

 3-inch pots, to bloom shortly, 30c. 

 each, $3.00 per doz. 



