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EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN— Flower Seeds 



Henderson's Superb Delphinium 



"-SZZP* or Hardy Perennial Larkspur (S " £££>""* 



SOW SEED THIS YEAR AND HAVE A PROFUSION OF FLOWERS NEXT YEAR 



Hybrid Delphiniums in a customer's garden 



The Delphinium has now taken rank as one of the most popular hardy perennial plants, and 

 is a favorite in every garden in the United States. 



Seeds must be sown between May and July in the garden, and it is desirable to sow them in 

 some place where the young seedlings will be partly sheltered by other plants. 



The vegetable garden is a good place to raise the seedlings, which must be thinned out to stand 

 8 inches apart. In the autumn transplant them to their place in the hardy border, and year by 

 year thereafter you will have an increasingly large crop of beautiful flowers. Seeds may also be 

 planted in a cold frame and covered slightly with brush or lattice work instead of glass. 



These varieties are very charming and beautiful, and quite indispensable in the hardy 

 border. The immense flower stalks are garnished to the tip with large blossoms, showing wonderful 

 combinations of color, and they all flower about the same time. Besides white and lemon (which 

 is dwarf) the colors are lavender, blue, indigo, purple of various shades, some of them with 

 various colors softly blended together. (See illustration.) 



2084 Delphinium Sinensis. Blue Butterfly. A beautiful blue variety of compact growth. 

 This is a perennial but blooms the first year if seed is sown early. Height 18 inches. 



Pki. 13c. 



2085 Hybridum Belladonna Fanny Stormonth. A greatly improved variety of the "Bella- 

 donna" 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 Pkt. 23c. 



208T Formosum. This popular variety produces long, spur-shaped flowers on loose spikes 

 about a foot long. The color is deep blue with a white center. The branching plants grow 

 from 2 to 3 feet nigh. Excellent for the perennial border and for naturalizing. Extremely 

 fine for cutting. Will thrive in any good garden soil and do well in partial shade. 



Per 1,000 seeds, 7Sc.i Pkt. 13c. 



2088 Lemon Gem {Delphinium nudicale). A very hardy dwarf-growing type of the perennial 

 larkspur originally discovered in Northern California. The plant grows from 1 to 1H 

 foot high, and its numerous branches are surmounted with spikes of clear yellow flowers. 

 This is by far the best yellow Delphinium ever introduced Pkl. 33c. 



2000 Giant and Double Superb Hybrids. A splendid race of these popular hardy, garden 

 plants. The blossoms are of immense size, single, semi-double and 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 seme of the varieties. The plants grow from 6 to 10 feet in height and arc 

 very desirable and valuable in the garden during. the spring and early summer. These 

 improved hybrids should be plantedin groups dotted here and there at intervals in the 

 herbaceous border. Mixed Colors Per 1,000 seeds $1.00: Pkt. 25c. 



2100 Single, Fine Mixed Colors Per 1,000 seeds, SOc.i Pkt. 10c. 



Henderson's Ever-Blooming 

 Annual Hollyhock 



(See Colored Plate Opposite) 



Flower the First Season from Seed 

 Every Garden may now be Glorified with Queenly Holly- 

 hocks Grown as Easily and Flowering as Quickly 

 from Seed as any Garden Annual 



The old favorite hardy 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 then flower profusely 

 until frost. 



The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many de- 

 lightful 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., and all flowers are usually very large, some measuring 5 inches across. 



In colors there is'also great variety, some richly brilliant, others dainty and 

 exquisite, 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, magenta, apricot 

 with buff margin, wine-red with white edge, etc., etc. (See illustration.) 



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 seeds), 23c. Per 500 seeds, $1.00. 



Henderson's Ever-Blooming Annual Hollyhock 



Henderson's Choice Collections of "tr^wSr 1 will make a "Garden Beautiful" ^JS 



