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FLOWER SEEDS 



"7s nol this a beautiful picture oj Baby Blue. 

 I bought seed from you last spring, and it 

 covered my 35-fooi porch." 



Mrs. J. M. Jenkins, 

 Winchester. 



HIBISCUS or Marsh Mallows {Perennial) 



These are showy, hardy, perennial plants, forming bushes about 4 feet 

 high, bearing immense bowl-like flowers, often 6 Laches across. 



2407 Giant Crimson. This variety has beautiful brilliant dark red flowers 

 which measure about 6 inches in diameter and they are raised freely 

 above the foliage. This 5 feet high perennial blooms the second year 

 after seed sowing and forms beautiful, free flowering bushes; it re- 

 quires a sunny protected position and good irrigation. During cold 

 winters protection with suitable material is necessary. It surpasses 

 all other varieties and it is therefore especially recommended for high 

 groups. {See illustration.) Pkt. 25c 



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



HOLLYHOCK, Hardy (Biennial) 



Grand summer and autumn flowering plants, bearing long spikes of double 

 flowers, 3 to 4 inches across. They are old inhabitants of our gardens, but are 

 now so improved in doubleness and enlarged in size, under our special cul- 

 ture and hybridization, as to be revelations of gorgeous beauty to those who 

 have not seen these improved sorts. Hardy biennials — or short-lived peren- 

 nials — 5 to 8 feet high. The seed we offer has been saved from an unrivaled 

 collection. (See illustration.) 



2423 Double Canary-yellow. Pkt. 10c 



2424 Double Crimson Pkt. 10c 



2426 Double Lavender Pkt. 10c 



2427 Double Maroon Pkt. 10c 



2440 Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. 



Per 500 seeds, 50c: Pkt. 10c 



2429 Double Pink Pkt. 10c 



2432 Double Purple. . . Pkt. 10c 

 2435 Double White Pkt. 10c 



IMPORTED COLLECTION of Double Hardy Hollyhock Seeds. 



2441 6 Separate Colors 50c 



2442 12 Separate Colors Sl.OO 



2455 Single Flowering, Mixed Colors Per 500 seeds, 35c; Pkt. 10c 



2460 Alleghany, Mixed Colors. Semi-double fringed flowers. 



Per 500 seeds, 50c; Pkt. 10c 



2462 Imperator. A wonderful new type of this hardy garden favorite, 

 having spikes which rise to a height of six to eight feet bearing flowers 

 five inches across, with elegantly frilled and fringed outer petals, the 

 center forming a double rosette two inches across. The colors are rose, 

 cerise, salmon, cream and yellow. Mixed Colors Pkt. 35c 



2464 Triumph Double. Hollyhock Triumph is of branching habit, all 

 the stems being studded with prettily waved and fringed flowers which 

 appear in a kaleidoscopic variety or color. Mixed Colors. . . Pkt. 35c 



EVER-BLOOMING 



HOLLYHOCK, Henderson's (Annual) 



{Shown in Colors on Page 94) 

 Every Garden May Now Be Glorified with Queenly Hollyhocks Grown 

 as Easily and Flowering as Quickly Front Seed as Any Garden Annual 



The old favorite Hollyhock can seldom be flowered from seed before the 

 second year, and the young plants frequently winter-kill. 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 and August, and then flower profusely until frost. 



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

 ful 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 four inches acro.ss. In 

 colors there is also great variety, maroon, pink, crimson, canary-yellow, 

 cerise, white, scarlet, apricot, wine-red, etc., etc. 



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

 bination Mixture of doubles and semi-doubles. 

 Per pkt. (about 50 setds), 25c; per 500 seeds, Sl.OO 



"Honesty" (Lunaria Biennis) (Biennial) 



2468 Hardy b ienn ial thriving almost anywhere; especially useful in shady, 

 damp places; the flowers of purple, crimson or white are followed 

 by silvery transparent seed pods; prized for winter bouquets; height. 

 2 feet. Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c 



HUMULUS (Japan Hop) (Annual) 



Rapid summer climber, attaining a height of 10 to 15 feet, resembling the 

 common Hop, but, being an annual, attains full perfection the first season. 

 The foliage is luxuriant, making dense covering. It is one of the best plants 

 for covering verandas, trellis, etc. Heat, drought and insects do not trouble 

 it. 



2472 Japonicus. Green foliage Pkt. 10c 



2474 Japonicus Variegatus. (Silver Striped Japan Hop.) A beautiful 

 variety of the above. Green foliage blotched and striped white and 

 gray Pkt. 10c 



Impatiens Holstii Hybrids (Annual) 



2480 Handsome plants from East Africa, also known as Sultan's Balsam, 

 forming bushes 12 to 18 inches high. The flowers, 1 Ji to 1 J^ inches 

 across, are of scarlet, orange-red, pink and white, with a red eye. The 

 plants grow luxuriantly out of doors and make unusually showy 

 flower-beds. If grown in pots they are equally effective. Mixed Colors. 

 Pkt. 25c 



INCARVILLEA (Perennial) 



2488 Delavayi. Beautiful half-hardy perennial garden plant with longt 

 flexible branches. It forms large, fleshy roots the first year, which 

 should remain in the ground the next season, and thereafter they throw 

 up strong flower stalks 3 feet high, bearing large tubular flowers of 

 rosy-carmine, spotted yellow; throat brown Pkt. 25c 



2490 Variabilis Hybrids. (Chinese Gloxinia.) Of recent introduction, 

 having beautiful tubular shaped Begonia-like flowers of pink, salmon 

 and yellow, a fine plant for beds and borders. .■Although a hardy 

 perennial, it blooms the first season from spring-sown seed. Fine for 

 greenhouse decoration or for' borders. (See illustration.) Mixed 

 Colors Pkt. 25c 



IPOMOEA Baby Blue (Annual) 



2496 This is the most lovely light blue Ipomoea we have ever seen. The 

 vines grow luxuriantly about IS feet high, well clothed with large 

 durable leaves and commencing in July — from March-sown seeds — the 

 plants sheeted until frost with white-throated light coerulean-blue 

 flowers — about 2 H inches across and of such substance that they often 

 remain open all day. (See illustration.) Pkt. 15c 



