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HELIOTROPE 



Giant-flowering. The heads of bloom of this new type often measure 

 a foot across. The plants, 18 inches high, are healthy, bushy and com- 

 pact; the leaves are large and luxuriant. Seed sown in the spring produces 

 full-grown, profuse-flowering plants by July, which flower in the garden 

 until cut down by frost, or may be grown in pots for winter flowers. 



2396 Lemoine's Giant Blue. Deep blue , . . . Pkt. 15c. 



2398 Lemoine's Giant White. Pearly-white „ Pkt. 15c. 



2400 Lemoine's Giant Hybrid, Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. 



One packet each of blue and white Lemoine's Giant Heliotrope for 25c. 



HIBISCUS or MARSH MALLOWS 



These are showy, hardy plants, forming bushes about 3 feet high, bearing 



immense bowl-like flowers, often 6 inches across. 



2408 Giant Yellow. Yellow, garnet throat Pkt. 10c. 



2410 Giant Rainbow. A grand hardy perennial shrub, growing from 5 

 to G feet high, producing beautiful single flowers to 8 inches in 

 diameter, the colors range from white and pink to many shades of 

 red and crimson, which we offer in mixture Pkt. 15c 



HARDY DOUBLE HOLLYHOCK 



Grand summer and autumn flowering plants, bearing long spikes of 

 double flowers, 3 to i inches across. They are old inhabitants of our 

 gardens, but are now so improved in doubleness and enlarged in size, under 

 our special culture and hybridization, as to be revelations of gorgeous 

 beauty to those who have not seen these- improved sorts. Hardy bien- 

 nials — or short-lived perennials — 5 to S feet high. The seed we offer has 

 been saved from an unrivalled collection. 



2423 Double Canary-yellow Pkt. 10c. 



' 2424 Double Crimson Pkt. 10c. 



2426 Double Lavender Pkt. 10c. 



2427 Double Maroon Pkt. 10c. 



2429 Double Pink Pkt. 10c. 



2432 Double Purple Pkt. 10c. 



2435 Double White Pkt. 10c. 



2436 Double White, Violet Center Pkt. 10c. 



2440 Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. 



Per 500 seeds. 50c; Pkt. 10c. 

 IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Double Hardy Hollyhock Seeds 



2441 6 Separate Colors Pkt. 40c. 



2442 12 Separate Colors Pkt. 75c. 



"Our hardy Hollyhocks bloomed last year from seed sown the year before 



and were a joy and pride." 



Mrs. J. M. TEBBETTS, Marshfield, Vt.' 



HENDERSON'S EVER-BLOOMING 



ANNUAL HOLLYHOCKS 



FLOWER THE FIRST SEASON FROM SEED 



Every Garden may now be Glorified with Queenly Holly- 

 hocks Grown as Easily and Flowering as Quickly 

 from Seed as any Garden Annual 



The old favorite Hollyhock can seldom be flowered from seed before 

 the second year, and as the young plants frequently winter-kill, it has 

 limited the cultivation of Hollyhocks to those willing to give the young 

 plants special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in growing our 

 annual Hollyhocks, for they flower the first season from seed. 



The plants from early-sown seed set out in May commence blooming in 

 July, the May-sown in August, and in either event they flower profusely 

 until frost. 



The flower buds, borne in clusters, vary in maturity from the developing 

 bud to the expanding flower; this characteristic accounts for the remark- 

 ably long flowering period, and, besides, the plants continuously push 

 outside branches as well as new spikes from the base, all of which. also 

 develop their quota of flowers almost ad infinitum. 



The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many de- 

 lightful surprises. Some plants produce densely double flowers without 

 guards, others with guard petals; there are semi-doubles with Anemone- 

 flowered centers, some with smooth-edged petals, others flounced, fringed, 

 etc., and all flowers are usually very large, some measuring five inches 

 across. In colors there is also great variety, some richly brilliant, others 

 dainty and exquisite, then there are colors and tints in charming com- 

 binations. There are maroon, black, pink, chamois-rose, apricot with 

 garnet throat, crimson, canary yellow, pink with claret throat and veins, 

 blush with carmine lacings, cerise, white, scarlet, blush with white throat, 

 magenta, apricot with buff margin, wine-red with white edge, etc., etc. 



The plants are of vigorous and healthy growth and naturally branching 

 in habit. The center spike, if not pinched, attains a height of from 8 to 

 10 feet, after which, if permitted, the side shoots from the base commence 

 to lengthen, growing candelabra-like, 3 to 5 feet long. The plants are 

 amenable to training; that is, the main stem may be kept at any desired 

 height by pinching out the tip, or it may be kept low and induce earlier 

 development in the side branches thus forming a bush. (See engraving.) 

 2450 Henderson's Ever-Blooming Annual Hollyhocks. Grand Combina- 

 tion Mixture of doubles and semi-doubles, including all colors, shades 



and variegations Per 500 seeds, $1.00; Pkt. 15c. 



2455 Single-flowering Hollyhocks, Mixed Colors. 



Per 500 seeds, 35c; Pkt. 10c. 

 2460 Allegheny Hollyhocks, Mixed Colors. Semi-double fringed flowers. 



Per 500 seeds. 50c; Pkt. 10c 



For Helichrysum Monslrosum {Everlasting Strawflowers) See colored plate on page 121. 



