PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE LIST OF PLANTS. 



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SINGLE WHITE PRIMROSE. 



Chinese Primroses. 



For winter flowers there is no more desirable plant than 

 the Chinese Primrose. They are easily grown and flower 

 incessantly throughout the winter. Our plants are raised 

 from the finest seed, specially saved in a private establish- 

 ment in Europe. All the Primulas offered are growing in 

 3-inch pots. Per doz Per 100 



$6 00 

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 75 



Primulus Single Crystal White $1 00 



Fringed Pink 1 



" Brilliant Crimson 1 



Striped 1 



Rosy Red 1 



Rosy White 1 



Ordinary Mixed 



THE BABY PRIMROSE. 

 The sprays of rosy lilac flowers are very graceful and 

 exceedingly useful for cut flowers. It is easily grown in 

 the house. $1.00 per doz., $8.00 per 100. 

 PRIMULA OBCONICA. 

 A favorite pot plant for house and conservatory cul- 

 ture on account of its wonderful blooming qualities, flow- 

 ering nearly all the year through. $1.00 per doz., $8. 00 

 per 100. 



VIOLET, MARIE LOUISE. 



(Winter Flowering.) 



The well-known double-purple variety. We offer 



strong, healthy, pot-grown plants, so that any grower 



should have no difficulty in handling them. Price, pot 



grown plants, $8.00 per 100. 



HARDY ENGLISH VIOLET. 

 (Spring Blooming.) 

 This Violet is entirely hardy, perfectly double, a deep 

 violet color and most deliciously fragrant. It surpasses 

 the well-known " Marie Louise "Violet in richness of color, 

 being many shades darker, and far excels it in its delight- 

 ful odor; this is one of its greatest merits. (See cut.) 

 Price, first size, flowering clumps from frames, $2.00 per 

 doz., $15.00 per 100. 



Plants from 3-inch pots, $8.00 per 100. 

 SWAINSONIAS. 

 A popular house plant. Foliage as graceful as an 

 Acacia; flowers resembling Sweet Peas. 

 We offer white and rose color. $1.00 per doz. 



Ophiopogon Jaburan Var. 



The foliage is gracefully curved, broad, grass-like and handsomely 

 and evenly striped creamy white, on a deep green surface. It bears 

 numerous upright, dense spikes of violet-blue flowers, about a foot in 

 length. The flowers are followed by blue berries, about the size of 

 currants, which remain a long time in perfection. Price, large plants 

 60c. each, $6.00 per doz. 



GENISTA RACEMOSUS. 

 We offer a nice lot of plants from 6-inch pots, which will make good 

 Easter plants. Price, $4.50 per doz. 



MARANTA KERCHOVEANA. 

 A splendid greenhouse plant; rich green foliage, with irregular 

 chocolate markings; very useful for jardinieres and fern dishes. We 

 offer fine plants from 3-inch pots at $1.00 per doz., $8.00 per 100. 

 POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. 

 This is the plant which produces the large clusters of red leaves or 

 flowers which are seen in all the flower stores at Christmas. Fine 

 plants from 5-inch pots, price 30c. each, $3.00 per doz. 



HARDY WHITE PINK. " Her Majesty." 

 Low- growing, with flowers of the purest white, as large as a Carna- 

 tion and of rich clove fragrance. Price, clumps, $8.00 per 100. 

 HARDY PINK, ABBOTSFORD. 

 Similar to above, but bearing deep pink flowers. Price, clumps, 

 .00 per 100. 



HARDY PINK, SOUV. DE SAALE. 

 Similar to the above in growth and habit. The color is better and 

 the flowers larger. Price, clumps, $8.00 per 100. 



SMILAX. 

 Familiar to everyone. Easily grown if trained to strings or stakes. 

 Strong plants from 2-inch pots, $2.00 per 100, $18.00 per 1,000. 

 SPIRAEA, ANTHONY WATERER. 

 Perhaps no hardy plant of recent introduction combines so many 

 good qualities as this. It is well adapted for edging shrubbery, form- 

 ing as it does a low, bushy plant, rarely exceeding twelve inches. The 

 flowers are of the richest carmine crimson, borne in dense, flat clusters 

 in profusion from early summer to frost. It is valuable for pot cul- 

 ture. Price, plants from open ground, ready Oct. 15th, $2.00 per doz., 

 $12,00 per 100. 



SELAGINELLA EMILIANA. 

 The best of the species for filling jardinieres or growing as single 

 specimens; it is exceedingly ornamental. Price, 2-inch pots, 60c. per 

 doz., $4.00 per 100; 3-inch pots $1.00 per doz., $6.00 per 100. 

 SELAGINELLA CAESIA ARBOREA. 

 The " tree " variety; bronze-blue foliage; a very useful variety. 

 Price, fine plants from 5-inch pots, $3.00 per doz. 



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