From PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 



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A Garden Will Be a Joy to You at Any 



Time of Life 



Love your garden even if it is 

 only a wee strip; love it and 

 nurse it and make it bloom in 

 many colors. 



A garden will be a joy to you 

 at any time of life, and a joy old 

 age will not rob you of. 



I have always loved flowers. I 

 never can bear to have no flow 

 masses fill me with an emotional, 



During the war-winters, when I 

 vaded home, when the 

 Germans occupied 

 Bucharest, and we 

 moved the court to 

 Jassy in the north of 

 Roumania, I used to fill 

 my house with mistle- 

 toe, flowers in winter 

 being an unknown lux- 

 ury in that far-off Mol- 

 davian town. 



But now I have be- 

 come a real gardener, 

 and all gardeners are 

 fraternal to each other. 

 They all speak the same 

 language — the language 

 of flowers and colors 

 and of lovely or curious 

 names. 



"Do you know that 

 new rose, 'Padre' J" 



"Oh, yes, such a beau- 

 tiful color!" 



"And how are your 

 dahlias this year?" 



"Gorgeous. But the 

 strawberries had too 

 much rain." 



"Have you heard of 

 that new, bright blue 

 delphinium introduced 

 by the man in Ger» 

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 keen delight, 

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And thus on and on, never 

 matter if you come from Chi- 

 cago, Bosnia or Timbuctoo! 



Old people are never cross or 

 quarrelsome with each other 

 when they talk of gardens. Ex- 

 quisite visions float before their 

 eyes and they veritably smell the 

 sweet scent of their heliotrope, verbena, lillies and honey- 

 suckle. 



They are ready to give advice and cuttings, bulbs and 



roots because the other 

 man has touched some 

 chord which vibrates in 

 the part of his heart 

 which cannot age. 



Everything will not 

 grow in my country. 

 It is too hot in summer, 

 too cold in winter. But 

 I am learning what will 

 do well in that particu- 

 lar climate. 



What is more, in 

 thoughts many times 

 have I wandered 

 through all the fairy 

 beauty I mean to cre- 

 ate, and it makes me 

 feel neighborly and hos- 

 pitable like nothing else. 

 I want everybody to 

 come and have a look at 

 my garden and rejoice 

 over it with me. Their 

 appreciation heightens 

 my pleasure and I think 

 of how, when quite old, 

 I shall sit out in the 

 sunshine and bless the 

 work my hands did 

 when they were young. 



QUEEN MARIE IN HER GARDENS AT BUCHAREST 



Reproduced by Courtesy of 



Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., 



New York 



Henderson's New Cut Flower Department 



Flowers Sent 



This new service was inaugurated not only for the 

 benefit of our local customers, but we also invite the 

 patronage of our mail-order customers. 



Our location at the gateway of the New York harbor 

 makes it possible for us to deliver fresh cut flowers to 

 any outgoing steamers from this port on short notice; 

 also to make deliveries to your relatives and friends 

 for anniversaries, birthday or holiday greetings and 

 similar occasions. 



By Telegraph Anywhere 



We are members of the F. T. D. (Florists' Telegraph Delivery) 

 and can order fresh cut flowers by telegraph for delivery to any 

 city, town or hamlet in this country, in fact, to any part of the 

 world. We assure our customers that in their transactions with 

 this new department, they will receive the same high class service 

 and obtain the same superior values for their money that prevail 

 in the other branches of our business. 



HOW TO ORDER. When it is desired to have flowers delivered 

 to a relative or friend living in a distant city or foreign country, 

 all that is necessary is to send us the order with the amount that 

 the purchaser wishes to expend. (Customers having charge 

 accounts with us may telegraph their orders and have them 

 charged.) In turn, we will transmit the order, either by telegraph 

 or by mail if the time permits, to our duly accredited representa- 

 tive in the town or vicinity in which the relative or friend is 

 located. There is no charge for this service, other than the cost 

 of telegraphing, which will be deducted from the amount, remitted. 

 For example: If we receive an order for cut flowers to the value 

 of $10.00 and the cost of telegraphing the order to the place of its 

 delivery amounts to $1.00, this sum will be deducted and flowers to 

 the value of $9.00 delivered. There are no deductions made from 

 orders for cut flowers to be delivered in New York City; but, we 

 make no deliveries on Sundays or holidays. Care should be taken 

 that the full name and address of the party to whom the Bowers 

 are to be sent, is given, also that the wording of the greeting or 

 salutation to be enclosed, is sent together with the buyer's name 

 and address. 



We recommend that wherever possible the selection of flowers 

 be left to us, as we can in that case invariably give greater value 

 than if we are limited strictly to the purchaser's choice. Owing to 

 the fluctuations in the prices of cut flowers, it is impossible tor US 

 to quote prices in this catalog, but it is always our aim to give our 

 customers the best values that they can obtain anywhere. 



The Fleur de Lis (Iris Germanica) shown in the illustration of the Queen's Gardens should be planted in autumn. Our 

 Autumn Bulb Catalog issued in August contains a list of the finest varieties of these beautiful flowers 



A CORNER OF OUR CUT FLOWER DEPT. 



