For a Garden Beautiful Plant Henderson's Quality Seeds 97 



Amaranthus 



These robust annuals, including "Love-Lies-Bleeding," "Joseph's Coat," etc., attain a 

 height of from 4 to 6 feet ; are very showy and effective garden plants. 



1072 Abyssinian. This giant "Love-Lies-Bleeding" has light green foliage, veined and 

 shaded rose, and pendent chenille-like tassels of red, measuring up to 2 feet in length 



and borne in clusters Pkt. 10c. 



1073 Aurora. The plant is clothed from ground to tip with long, arching leaves, colored 

 rich green and bronze at the bast . the foliage brightening toward the top into rose- 

 yellow, red and green Pkt. 10c. 



107S Cauda (us. (Love-Lies-Bleeding.) Rapid-growing garden annual with long, droop- 

 ing crimson flower spikes; height 3 feet Pkt. 10c. 



1077 Oriflamme. A strikingly showy new variety of branching, pyramidal growth about 

 5 feet high. It is well clothed with large leaves of glossy maroon, while the central 



and side branches are all topped with bright scarlet leaves Pkt. 10c. 



1078 Tricolor Nans, Dwarf, Joseph's Coat (new). This new dwarf variety has been 

 named "Fire Amaranth" from its very brilliant coloring; the foliage is of a bright 



carmine with variegations of golden yellow, blood red and dark green. A fine plant for orna- 

 mental gardening; also splendid for pot culture. Height, 1 8 inches Pkt. 25c 



Ammobium Alatum 



1079 Valuable white Everlasting. The fully expanded flower has a yellow center. If 

 sown in April or May and treated as a hardy annual the plants bloom freely the 



same year Height, 2 V 2 feet " Pkt. 10c. 



Ampelopsis Veitchii, "Boston" or 

 "Japan Ivy" 



1082 A valuable climber. Entirely hardy in the most exposed places, often attaining a 

 height of 20 to 30 feet in two or three years from seed, clinging to stones, brick or 

 wood-work with the greatest tenacity. It is a great protection to walls, etc., as the leaves 

 lapping over each other, shed rain. For covering dead trees, gate posts, boundary walls, 

 etc., it has no equal. In the summer the foliage is a rich shade of green, but in the fall it 

 assumes the most gorgeous tints of scarlet, crimson and orange Pkt. 10c. 



Anchusa Italica 



1087 "Dropmore" variety. A fine, large, hardy, herbaceous plant; 4 to 5 feet high 

 This new "Dropmore" variety is a great improvement on the type, the beautiful 

 Forget-Me-NoHike flowers being much larger than others and of a lovely Gentian blue 

 produced in long, loose sprays. Invaluable for the hardy border, as flowers are produced 

 during the entire season and until late in the fall. Pkt. 15c. 



Annual Anchusa "Blue Bird" 



1080 The perennial Anchusa, in its highest development, the Dropmore variety, is de- 

 servedly popular by its lovely bright blue flowers. This esteem is now shared by 



the annual Anchusa, which grows about 18 inches high, is of compact habit, and bears its 

 flowers in a luxuriant bouquet at the top of the plant. The latter are of a vivid indigo blue 

 and of brilliant effect for the decoration of beds and borders {See illustration) .... Pkt. 35c 



Anemone 



1092 



St. Brigid. These beautiful Irish Poppy-flowered varieties are hardy perennials- 

 flowering from seed the second year and thereafter. Produce in abundance large 

 single, semi-double and double flowers 3 to 5 inches across, in an endless variety of colors, 

 from marron and brightest scarlet to flesh-pink, and from lilac to purple. Some are mottled, 

 striped, ringed, etc. For cutting they are unsurpassed and in the garden they flower until 

 after frost. From seed sown in January or February under glass the plants should begin to 

 bloom in September or October of the same year, and continue until the following June. 

 Seed may also be sown in June or July for plants to bloom in the succeeding year. (See 

 illustration ) Pkt. 15c. 



Antirrhinum, New Large Flowering 

 Dwarf Snapdragon 



(Grandiflorum nanum 

 A great improvement over the ordinary dwarf sorts. The great size and perfect 

 form of the individual bloom combined with ideal symmetry of the spike are its main 

 characteristics. A beautiful variety for beds or borders, height 1 foot. (See illus- 

 tration.) 



1103 Advance. Brilliant orange scarlet with white throat Pkt. 15c. 



1104 Charm. Rich, glowing rose Pkt. 15c. 



1105 Empress. Velvety crimson Pkt. 15c. 



111)6 Golden Monarch. Golden yellow Pkt. 15c. 



1107 Madonna. Pure white Pkt. 15c. 



1108 Melody. Salmon pink with lemon center Pkt. 15c. 



1113 Nelrose Improved. Coral pink Pkt. 15c. 



1116 Philadelphia Pink. An exquisite shade of light pink Pkt. 15c. 



1 1 10 Mixed Colors Pkt. 15c. 



1111 Collection of above 8 named varieties $1.00 



Henderson's Flower Seed Novelties — the latest results of the plant breeders art are described and illustrated on pairs 92, 93 and 94 



