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Peter Henderson & Co., New York.— Flower Seed Novelties. 



Glories. 



Qrand "Imperial Japanese " Morning 



GIGANTIC FLOWERS. EXQUISITE NEW COLORS. MAGNIFICENT FOLIAGE. 



These will prove a revelation to those who have never seen them. The vines are strong and 

 -robust, attaining a height of from 30 to 60 feet. The foliage is most luxuriant, distinct and 

 varied; some vine9 have rich vivid green leaves, others have silvery leaves, some with yellow 

 leaves, and many produce leaves mottled and checkered like rich mosaics of light and dark green, 

 white and gray. The intermingling vines and brightly contrasting colored leaves are wonderfully 

 pretty and effective even when the flowers are not open. 



But the surpassing charm of these "Imperial Japanese Morning Glories" lies in the entrancing 



beauty and gigantic size of the flowers ; they 

 measure from 4 to 6 inches across, and their 

 greater substance causes them to remain open 

 much longer than ordinary Morning Glories. 

 The colors of the flowers, shadings and mark- 

 ings are limitless, and are really wonders of 

 nature, of such incomparable beauty that 

 descriptions are inadequate. Some flowers 

 are of deep, rich velvety tones, others daintily 

 tinted and shaded. The solid colors range 

 through reds from soft rose to crimson, 

 bronze and garnet maroon; from daintiest 

 light blue to ultramarine, indigo and blackish 

 purple ; from snow-white to cream and silver 

 gray. Some are striped, starred and spotted ; 

 others have magnificent edges and throats. 

 We especially noted a royal purple with broad 

 white edge and a red throat, a blue with pink 

 throat, a white flushed pink and a wine-red 

 throat, a crimson with white throat, a car- 

 mine with white edge and red shaded throat, 

 a claret purple with snow-white throat, copper 

 color with white throat, etc., etc. 



The " Imperial Japanese Morning Glories" are 

 of the easiest culture. Sow early in a warm, 

 sunny position in good, rich soil, and give 

 plenty of water in dry weather. [See cue.) 

 Price, per packet of mixed colors, 15c. 



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" IMPERIAL 



JAPANESE" 

 MORNING GLORY. 



CALIFORNIAN GIANT NASTURTIUMS. 



New Climbing 



Nasturtiums. 



"Hybrids of Madame Gunter." 



A new section obtained by a 

 ■French specialist by artificial 

 hybridizing, and distinguished by 

 dark-colored foliage and flowers 

 of a richness and variety of color- 

 ing not to be found in any of 

 the different classes of Nasturtiums 

 heretofore grown. There have already 

 "been produced twenty-two different colors *%> 



•or combinations of colors in these new ^Wsj- 



hybrids, including various shades of rose, 

 salmon, bright red, pale yellow, etc., either self- 

 colored or spotted, mottled, striped and margined 

 Price, per packet, 25c. _ . 



Mammoth Butterfly PanSWS. 



A strain of Pansy which, for variety and beauty, 

 has never been excelled. Of matchless forms, colors 

 and markings, with flowers half as large again as 

 ordinary Pansies. They will both astonish and delight 

 "Pansy Fanciers." (Seecut.) Mixed colors, the grandest 

 mixture ever offered, per packet, 20c. 



Phlox Drummondii.^? acta 



These form little round compact bushe3 about six inches high, 

 thickly studded with flowers. For beds and massing, nothing can surpass 

 these beautiful annuals. They produce immense trusses of large brilliant 

 flowers of numberless hues throughout the summer. (See cut.) Mixed 

 ■colors, per packet, 10c. Imported collection of 6 Ihuarf Phlox, 50c. 



Tw%7u n n'L" Giants of California. 



Californian Giant Flowering 



iTo Thu mb) Nasturtiums. 



These grand Tom Thumb or bedding Nasturtiums have been devel- 

 oped through several years of careful culture and selection under 

 California's sunny skies, where soil, climate and other conditions have 

 proved so thoroughly congenial to the highest development of this 

 popular garden annual. Not only have the flowers increased wonder- 

 fully in size .often measuring 3 inches across, but a great variety of 

 new and charming combinations of colors has been produced, while 

 the brilliancy and velvety richness of the solid colored 

 sorts has been greatly enhanced. We cannot attempt 

 to describe the exquisite blendings and markings of 

 the vari-colored varieties, for they are limitless ; we 

 can only say that this mixture contains seed saved 

 from the "largest flowering, most beautiful and 

 varied collection ever sent out. For summer 

 flower beds, nothing in the floral kingdom 

 can surpass these Californian Giant 

 FloweriDg (Tom Thumb) Nasturtiums. 

 The plants form perfect mounds about 

 one foot high by one foot across, 

 fairly sheeted with blossoms. 

 Seed sown in the open ground 

 in the spring will produce 

 plants that commence 

 blooming during earl-y 

 summer and continue 

 until severe frosts. 

 They are thrifty, 

 luxuriant growers 

 of the easiest 

 possible culture 

 and are never 

 troubled with 

 insects. (Seecut.) 

 Price, per pkt., 

 25c. 



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Single Flowering. 



A Californian strain of in- 

 comparable beauty, size and 

 luxuriance. Most of the flowers are exquisitely ruffled 

 or fringed on the edges, and are of enormous dimensions 

 {■1 to 5 inches across), but their great merits lie in the 

 tremendous varieties of colors, markings, veinings, 

 blotchings and stripings, in the most grotesque and 

 beautiful combinations; some with charming deep 

 throats of yellow, white, black, green or maroon, run- 

 ning off into intricate veins. Some of the colors are rich 

 and gorgeous and others of lovely delicate shades. 

 Mixed colors (Single Flowering), per packet, 25c. 



Double Flowering. 



As large as Hollyhocks; as double - 

 as double can be, with edges finely fringed, petals 

 fluted and crinkled, intensifying and varying tire 

 colors with high lights and dark shadows, bringing 

 out a richness and effect unmatched by crumpled 

 velvet, which the flowers resemble. There is a 

 variety of colors— selfs, blotched, veined, margined, 

 etc.; in short, these double Petunias are unmatched 

 by any other strain in the world. (Seecut.) Mixed 

 colors (Double Flowering), per packet, 50c. 



AL,I, FLOWER SEEDS offered in this Catalogue we deliver free to any post office in the United States. 



