PETER HENDERSON 8tC0., NEW YORK 



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Annual Hollyhocks 



HENDERSON'S 

 EVEFVBLOOMING ANNUAL 



Hollyhocks, 



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 

 the Hollyhock to those willing to give the young plants 

 special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in 

 growing our new hybrid Hollyhocks, for they flower the 

 first season from seed, which may be started in the house 

 or hotbed from February to April, or be sown in the open 

 ground in May. 



The plants from early-sown seed set out in May com- 

 mence 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 remarkably long flowering 

 period, and, besides, the plants continuously push out 

 side branches as well as new spikes from the base, all of 

 which also develop their quota of flowers almost ad 

 infinitum. Open flowers sometimes encircle the spikes 

 compactly — veritable columns of bloom — but usually 

 the flowers expand in irregular groups, in a charmingly 

 informal fashion. 



The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers 

 affords many delightful 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., 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 blended 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, geranium-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. 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR, 



Double Hardy Hollyhocks 



Received the Highest Award at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 



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 revelations of gorgeous beauty to those who have 

 not seen these improved sorts. Hardy biennial, 5 to 8 feet high. The seed 

 we offer has been saved from our unrivaled collection of choicest improved double 

 varieties. 



Double Blush Pkt. .10 



Canary- Yellow 10 



" Crimson 10 



Deep Rose 10 



" Lavender 10 



" Light Apricot 10 



Black 10 



Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. 1 ,000 seeds, 50c. . Pkt. 



IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Superior Double Hardy Hollyhocks. 

 6 Separate colors 40c. 12 Separate colors 75c 



Double Maroon Pkt . .10 



Pink 10 



Purple 10 



" Salmon 10 



" White 10 



" " Violet Center 10 



10 



Price of Seed— Henderson's Ever A ^:r g Hollyhocks. 



Grand Combination Mixture of doubles and semi-doubles, including all colors, 

 shades and variegations. Per Pkt. {about 50 seeds), 15c; Per 500 Seeds, S1.00. 



From those who have grown Henderson's Annual Ever- Blooming Hollyhocks: 



"I have never known such fine Hollyhocks as came from your Ever-blooming 

 kind, the seeds of which were planted in the open ground last April. They began 

 to flower the last of July and I had six, eight or ten spikes on nearly every plant. 

 One CAXXOT praise them enough." HELEX J. RIPLEY, Brookline.Mass. 



" Last year I got a package of your Ever-blooming Hollyhock seed from a 

 tlie plants commenced blooming the J,th of July and areblooming yet (January 13th) ; 

 %n fact, look as fresh and beautiful as when they first commenced. " 



R. CHARLTOX. Los Angeles, Cal. 



" Your Ever-blooming Hollyhocks are a great addition to our herbaceous borders 

 and are rightly named. The spikes of flowers the first year were thrown up con- 

 tinuously in a pleasing variety of colors, and not a sign of aisease was shown. " 



JOSEPH DEXTER. White Plants. X. Y. 



" / am well pleased with your new Hollyhocks; there are some unusually rich 

 colors among them. I consider that "vo distinct advantages over the older 



types — flowering in about three months from seed, and 'in disease. " 



WM. TURNER, Oceanic, X. J. 



" Your floral novelty, Ever-blooming Hollyhocks, are rigi 

 agreeably surprise. :r rapid growth, early and continuous bio 



unexpected variation from ordinary Hoi: : forth of ble 



laterals until cliecked byfros!/' GEO. W. PECK. Roselle Park, X. J. 



Cultural Instructions for Henderson's Annual Ever'blooming Hollyhocks on every Packet. 



