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Giant Double Hybrids. A splendid race of these popular hardy garden plants. 

 The blossoms are of immense size, semi-double and perfectly double, dressing the 

 graceful, towering spikes for from 2 to 5 feet of their length. The colors range 

 from white and lavender through every shade of blue from azure to indigo and 

 purple, several shades being blended in some of the varieties. The plants grow 

 from 6 to 10 feet in height. By cutting off the spikes immediately after flower- 

 ing, these Delphiniums may be had in bloom for several months. Mixed 

 Colors Per 1000 seeds, 00c. ; Pkt. 25c. 



Hybridum Nanum. A semi-dwarf single-flowering type, each plant produces 

 several well-furnished spikes. 3 to 3)2 feet in height. The flowers are very large 

 and continue long in bloom; colors vary from light celestial to deepest indigo. If 

 sown early they will flower the first season Per 1000 seeds, 75c.; Pkl. 15c. 



Zalil. (Hardy Yellow Larkspur.) Produces freely long spikes of 40 to 50 sulphur- 

 yellow blossoms, each 1 inch in diameter, flowering from June until August, plant 

 thrifty and bushy; 3 to 4 feet Per 1000 seeds. $1.00; Pkl. 10c. 



Hybridum Belladonna Fanny Stormonth. A greatly improved variety of the 

 "Belladonna" Larkspur; it retains the early and continuous blooming habit and 

 the light azure-blue color but the flowers are much larger, of better substance and 

 the stems are from 5 to 7 feet high, the upper 2 to 3 feet form a huge branching 

 raceme of fine, well-placed flowers. There is nothing like it amongst all the 

 hundreds of new hybrids Per 1000 seeds, $1.00; Pkt. 15c. 



Formosum. Deep blue, white center; 2 to 3 feet. .Per 1000 seeds, 35c.; Pkt. 5c. 



Single, Fine Mixed Colors Per 1000 seeds, 35c.; Pkt. 5c. 



Henderson's New Garden Guide and Record for 1916 is pronounced an indispen- 

 sable "Gardening Companion"; it answers the 101 questions that "crop up" about 

 gardening. We give it free with orders of $1.00 or over. See 3d page cover. 



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Single-Flowering Varieties 



Crown "Grass" Pinks. A new race with branching 

 flower stalks 10 to 12 inches high, carrymg large de- 

 liciously fragrant single, and semi-double flowers with 

 fringed petals; colors, white, carmine, rose, lilac, etc. 

 Each flower marked in the center with a crimson or 

 purple crown. They flower from May to July. .PA;/, loc. 



Maiden Pinks. This pretty type of hardy Pinks — 

 Dianthiis deltoides — forms low mats of Grass-like foliage 

 about 3 inches high, above which is thrown during spring 

 and early summer a profusion of small single flowers not_ 

 over M of an inch in diameter on stems 6 to 8 inches m 

 length. Colors, red; rose and white, all adorned with a central 

 zone of crimson Per 1000 seeds, 50c,; Pkt. 10c. 



Plumarius, Double Mixed. The favorite old Pheasanfs-Eye or 

 Grass Pinks; 1 foot. . Per 1000 seeds. 60c.; Pkt. 10c 



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Double-Flowering Varieties 



Dwarf Large Double-flowering Grass or Spice 

 Pinks. (Dianthus plumarius nanus, fl. pi.) 

 These are great improvements over the 

 charming time-honored inhabitant of old- 

 fashioned gardens. The flowers are large 

 and borne profusely on short, stiff stems. 

 In these new pinks we have a large 

 variety of colors and markings; the 

 color, of course, refers to the center of 

 the flower, the remainder being white 

 or blush with a band of color near the 

 margin; the colors include blood-red, 

 rose, maroon, purple, pink, blush, 

 spotted, laced, variegated, etc. They 

 are excellent perennial garden plants, 

 about 1 foot high, vigorous, hardy, 

 and flower profusely during spring 

 and early summer. The flowers are 

 very large, double, beautifully fringed, 

 and emit a clove-like perfume. Mixed 

 Colors. Per WOO seeds, 75c., Pkt. 20c. 



Perfection Pinks. A superb strain of the 



hardy Grass Pink — Diantlius plumarius — 



bearing enormous double flowers ot perfect 



form. Smooth round pecals ot pure white, 



edged with deep crimson, very fragrant. 



Pkl. 1")C. 



^oundefbT Peter Henderson in 1847"brh4loa" Charles Henderson g,T„^,^'L Peter and Howard M. Henderson 



