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Hardy Double HOLLYHOCK 



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 culture and hybridization, as to be re- 

 velations of gorgeous beauty to those who have not seen 

 these improved sorts. Hardy biennials — or short lived 

 perennials — 5 to 8 feet high. The seed we offer has been 

 saved from an unrivaled collection. 



2422 Double Black Pkt. 10c 



2423 Double Canary -Yellow Pkt. 10c 



2424 Double Crimson Pkt. 10c. 



2426 Double Lavender Pki. 10c 



2427 Double Maroon Pkt. 10c 



242-> "Palling Belle." A very fine form of Hollyhock bearing large double flowers of a 



charming shade of silverv-pink Pkt. 30c. 



2429 Double Pink Pkt. 10c. 



2432 Double Purple Pkt. 10c. 



2433 Double Deep Rose Pkt. 10c. 



2435 Double White Pkt . 10c. 



2436 Double White Violet Center Pkt. 10c. 



2440 Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. Per 1,000 seeds, 75c. Pkt. 10c. 

 Customer's Selection of Hollyhock Seed. Any three 10c. pkts. >. lected for 25c. 



IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Double Hardy Hollyhock Seeds 



2441 6 Separate Colors Pkt. 40c. 



2442 12 Separate Colors Pkt. 75c. 



2455 Single-flowering Hollyhocks, Mixed Colors. Per 1.000 seeds, 50c Pkt. or. 



2460 Allegheny Hollyhocks, Mixed Colors. Semi-double fringed flowers. Per 1,000 



seeds, 60c Pkt. 10c. 



HUMULUS or JAPAN HOP 



Rapid summer climber, in three or four weeks' time attaining a height of 20 to 30 feet, 

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

 The foliage is'luxuriant, making a 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. Per oz., 35c Pkt. 5c. 



2474 Japonicus Variegatus. Silver Striped Japan Hop. A beautiful variety of the above. 

 Green foliage blotched and striped white and gray. Per oz., 50c Pkt. 10c. 



ANNUAL HOLLYHOCKS 



FLOWER THE FIRST SEASON FROM SEED 

 Every Garden may now be Glorified with Queenly Hollyhocks 

 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 ex- 

 panding flower; this characteristic accounts for the remarkably long flowering period, and, 

 Desides, the plants continuously push outside branches as well as new spikes from t! 

 all of which also develop their quota of flowers almost ad infinitum. 



The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many delightful sun 

 Some plants produce densely double flowers without guards, others w ith 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 exqui- 

 site, then there are colors and tints in charming combinations. 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 

 maeenta, 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 de-elop- 

 ment in the side branches thus forming a bush. 



2450 Henderson's Ever-Blooming Annual Hollyhocks. 



Grand Combination Mixture of doubles and 



semi-doubles, including all colors, shades and 



variegations. Per Pkt. (about 50 se< 



15c. Two Pkts. for 25c. Per 500 seeds, 



S1.00. 



From those who have grown 

 Henderson's Annual Ever- 

 Blooming Hollyhocks 



"/ was very much 

 with the Ever-Blooming Holly- 

 hocks I had from you h: 

 They commenced bloon 

 August ni-rl in bloom 



until cut off by frost." 



GEO. A. PITT, Portland, 

 Maine. 



"I hare never known such 

 fine Hollyhocks as came from 

 your Ever-Blooming kind, 

 the seeds of which 

 in the open ground lost 

 They began ' 

 July and I had six, 



nearly every plant. One 



CANNOT | aough." 



HELEN J. RIPLEY, Brook- 

 line, Mass. 



"When our Hollyocks bloomed 

 last year, they were a joy and pride. 

 The La 



Mrs. J. M. TEBBETTS. 

 field, 17. 

 ' I purchased some of yo 

 Hollyock Si 

 ground. They bloomed in September and 

 October." 



Miss CLARA M. A YER, Angela, A", r. 



\\lien Ordering Flower Seeds Please Order By Number Prefixed To Each Variety 



