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DECOPvATlVE DAHLIAS 



DOUBLE DAHLIAS from seed 



These flower the first season if sown early. (See cut.) 

 CHOICE, Large-flowering, Double, Decorative and Show Varieties, Mixed, Pki. 10c. 

 CACTUS-FLOWERED, Double, Mixed Colors. Saved from the choicest Cactus- 

 flowered varieties Pkt. 10c. 



NEW GIANT- 

 FLOWEKING 



This grand new French race produces immense flowers, often 7 to 8 inches in 

 diameter, very double and in form intermediate between the formal show Dahlias 

 and the narrow curled petalled Cactus Dahlias — the grace and beauty of these 

 Giant Decorative Dahlias being unapproachable. The flowers are borne on 

 long, strong stems, and are in a variety of colors — the seed having been saved 

 from a prize collection of named varieties Pkt. 25c. 



SINGLE DAHLIAS fi^om seed 



Although perennials these will flower the first season from seed if sown early. 



20TH CENTURY. Immense single flowers, 4 to 6 inches across, white, marked 

 carmine and pink; very handsome Pkt. 10c. 



GIANT PERFECTION, Mixed. Immense single flowers of various colors, includ- 

 ing many beautifully striped and spotted sorts Pkt. 10c. 



COLLERETTE, Mixed Colors. Flowers of various colors, adorned with a collar 

 of small petals around the centre, novel and beautiful Pkt. 15c. 



COLOSSAL. A French race producing flowers that attain the extraordinary 

 dimensions of 8 to 9 inches in diameter. The flowers are composed of three 

 or more whorls of wide overlapping petals — placed one above the other. The 

 stems are long and rigid, bearing the flowers well above the foliage; the 

 colors are rich and varied Pkt. 15c. 



DELPHINIUM or HARDY LARKSPUK 



GIANT DOUBLE HYBRIDS. A splendid race of these popular hardy garden plants. The 

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

 By cutting off the spikes immediately after flowering, these Delphiniums may be had in 

 bloom for several months. [See cut.) Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c. 



HYBRIDUM NANUM. A semi-dwarf single-flowering type, each plant producing several 

 well-furnished spikes, 3 to 3}'2 feet in height. The flowers are very large and continue 

 long in bloom; colors vary from Ught celestial to deepest indigo. If sown early they 

 will flower the first season Pkt . 15c. 



FORMOSA GIANT. This beautiful hardy Larkspur grows about 3V^ feet high — bearing from 

 June to October, long spikes of velvety, indigo-blue flowers of giant size, nearly 2 

 inches across Pkt. 15c. 



ZALIL. (Hardy Yellow Larkspur.) Produces freely long spikes of 40 to 50 sulphur- 

 yellow blossoms, each 1 inch in diameter, flowering from June until August, plant thrifty 

 and bushy; 3 to 4 feet Pkt. 10c. 



HYBRIDUM BELLADONNA FANNY STORMONTH. Sterling novelty. A greatly 

 improved variety of the "Belladonna" 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. There is nothing like it amongst all the 

 hundreds of new hybrids Pkt. 25c. 



Formosum, Deep blue, white centre; 2 to 3 feet , , . 5c. 



Single, Fine Mixed Colors 5c. 



Hardy Dianthus, Grass or Spice Pinks 



DWARF LARGE DOUBLE-FLOWERING GRASS OR SPICE PINKS. (Dianthus 

 Plumarius Nanus, fl. pi.) These are great improvements over the charming time-honored 

 inhabitant of old fashioned gardens. The flowers are large and borne profusely on 

 short, stiff stems. In these new Pinks we have a large variety of colors and markings; 

 the color, of course, refers to the centre of the flower, the remainder being white or 

 blush with a band of color near the margin; the colors include blood-red, rose, maroon, 

 purple, pink, blush, spotted, laced, variegated, etc. They are excellent perennial garden 

 plants, about 1 foot high, vigorous, hardy, and flower profusely during spring and early 

 summer. The flowers are very large, double, beautifully fringed, and emit a clove-like 

 perfume. Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c. 



PERFECTION PINKS. A superb strain of the hardy Grass Vi-nk— Dianthus plumarius 

 — bearing enormous double flowers of perfect form. Smooth round petals of pure white, 

 edged with deep crimson, very fragrant Pkt. 15c. 



CROWN "GRASS" PINKS. A new race with branching flower stalks 10 to 12 inches 

 high, carrying large deliciously fragrant single, and semi-double flowers with fringed 

 petals; colors, white, carmine, rose, lilac, etc. Each flower marked in the centre with a 



crimson or purple crown. They flower from May to July Pkt. ISc. 



(See illustration opposite page.) 



MAIDEN PINKS. This pretty type of hardy Pinks — Dianthus deltoides — forms low mats 

 of Grass-like foliage about 3 inches high, above which is thrown during spring and early 

 summer a profusion of small single flowers not over % of an inch in diameter on stems 

 6 to 8 inches in length. Colors red, rose and white, all adorned with a central zone 

 of crimson Pkt. 10c. 



PLUMARIUS, DOUBLE MIXED. The favorite old Pheasant's-E ye or Grass Pinks; 1 foot, 10c. 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS 



are only 

 supplied by us 



direct to our customers; they are not sold in stores 



