PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— PLANT DEPARTMENT. 



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CHINESE AZALEAS. ^Ji;." 



No plant has increased in popularity during recent years 

 with such amazing rapidity as the Chinese Azalea. A few 

 years ago the annual importation would hardly exceed twenty 

 live-thousand, to-day it probably reaches two hundred am 

 thousand. At Easter they are seen in every church and i 

 windows of our finest residences throughout the country, 



DOUBLED-FLOWERED AZALEAS. 



Apollo. Large semi double Mower ; blood-red. 

 Bernard Andrea Alba. Very fine double white. 

 Concorde d'Orange. A grand double red. 

 Dame Matson. Clear white, red markings. 

 Deutsche Perle. Pure white ; fine for forcing. 

 Docteur de Moor. Intense rose and violet. 

 Empereur de Bresil. Double pink, edged white. 

 Illustration. Pink, marked white ; a very pretty sort. 

 Imperatrice des Indes. Rose, edged white. 

 Mme. Camille. White, striped and stained red. 

 Mme. Van der Cruyssen. Bright rose. (Set- cut.) 

 Niobe. Fine double white of extra substance. 

 Raphael. Pure white, double flower of fine form ; late. 

 Simon Madner. Large flower ; intense rose. 

 Vervaeniana. A beautiful rose, edged with white. 



SINGLE-FLOWERED AZALEAS; 



Apollon, Large, single white, sparingly lined red. 

 Eugene Mazel. Salmon rose, upper lobes violet. 

 Mme. de Grevy. Flesh color, spotted crimson. 

 Queen of Whites. Very fine, pure white. 

 Roi d'HoIlande. Blood-red. spotted black. 

 Sigismond Rucker. Lilac rose, striped white. 

 Versicolor. Puie white, heavily striped deep red. 



Fine plants, 14 to 16 inches across, fl.OO each, 

 $10.00 per doz., ; 13 to 14 inches, 75c. each. |7.o0 per 

 doz.; 10 to 13 inches, 50c. each, |5.00 per doz. 



The plant shown 

 above measured 18 

 inches across. 



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M EW GIANT BROWALLIA. 



The flowers are indigo blue, fully 

 2 jnclics across, and co\er the 

 plant when in bloom. Invaluable 

 for pot plants in the winter for 

 greenhouse and window garden. 

 (See cut.) Price 15c. each, $1.50 

 per d z. 



Double Golden Marguerite. 



^Anthcmis Coronjria fl. pi.i 



The tloweis are clear golden yel- 

 low ; it blooms without cessation 

 the entire season ; in winter as 

 well as summer it is ever covered 

 with b!oom. 

 Itc. each, §1.50 per doz. 



ARAUCARIA EXCELSA. 



i Norfolk Island Pinc.f 



Deep green, feathery foliage ar- 

 ranged in whorls, rising one above 

 the other at regular distances. It 

 is easily grown in the house and 

 is highly ornamental. Extra fine 

 plants 20 to 24 inches high, |2.50 

 each ; 12 to 15 inches high, 1:1.50 

 each ; 9 to 1'^ inches high $100. 

 each. 



ACALYPHA SANDERH. 



' Ccniit PUnt. ■ 



Long carmine crimson "tails'' 

 from the axils of the leaves. \"ery 

 ornamental. Price, 2fc. each. 



