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BULBS FOR AUTUMN PLAMTIIMC 



^HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR 



NAMED .-. DUTCH .-. HYACINTHS. 



FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 



...Including Beautiful Novelties... 



The Hyacinth is probably the most useful and popular hardy 

 bulb grown. It delights millions of flower lovers throughout 

 the world with its matchless beauty and rare fragrance. Even 7 

 home may be cheered in winter and every garden may be glori- 

 fied in spring with the sweet breath, beautiful colors and buxomly 

 formed trusses of wax-like flowers, for the Hyacinth is amenable 

 to the most diverse treatment, endures most severe hardships, 

 and blooms most gratifyingly in winter or spring, as desired. 



The Hyacinth may be grown in pots or in glasses, or in the 

 garden. The colors, shades and tints are wonderfully varied, 

 from purest white through blush, pink, rose, etc., to deepest 

 red, and from daintiest porcelain through blues to black purple, 

 from cream through yellows to orange and rosy apricot, etc. 

 Named varieties produce the finest trusses of bloom, and should 

 always be selected for specimens in pots or glasses; of course, 

 first size bulbs of named hyacinths are equally superior for 

 gardens and bedding when the price can be afforded, though 

 the cheaper grades (as offered on page 6) are usually used for 

 bedding, garden borders or for forcing in quantity for winter 

 cut flowers. 



Henderson's Superior Named Hyacinths are all First Size 

 " Selected " Bulbs — not " Seconds," so often sent out at a lower 

 price. 



Average circumference 18 to 20 centimeters (7 to 8 inches) excepting 

 for a few small bulbing -varieties. 



HENDERSON'S EXHIBITION 



"XX" Named Hyacinths. 



We have a number of customers who are Hyacinth fanciers, 

 and want the very largest and finest bulbs of the best varieties, 

 regardless of price to enable them to produce flowers superior 

 to their neighbors — or for exhibition. To meet this demand 

 we have arranged with our Holland growers to pick out at a 

 fancy price a limited quantity of the very biggest bulbs har- 

 vested of all the varieties we catalogue. 



The flowers of Hyacinths in an incipient form are stored in 

 the hearts of the bulbs before maturity, exactly as they after- 

 wards develop; so that if you purchase younger cheaper bulbs, 

 containing in embryo only a few bells on a spike, no system of 

 culture can make them produce more that season. Therefore, 

 for the finest results the best, oldest and largest bulbs (within 

 certain limits) should be chosen, for these usually contain the 

 most perfect and greatest number of flowers. 



In ordering, be sure to mention " XX " before each variety 

 wanted of this grade. 



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