20 PETER HENDERSON & CO, 



35 and 37 

 CORTLANDT ST.. 



NEW YORK 



HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR FREESIAS 



Freesias are popular for pot culture, flowering in the winter and 

 spring in the conservatory, or window garden. 6 to 8 bulbs should 

 be planted in a 4-inch pot. They can be had in bloom by Christmas 

 if desired, and by having a dozen pots started in the cold frame and 

 brought in at intervals; keep up a display through the winter {See 

 illustration.) 

 Purity. Produces large sprays of snow white flowers deliciously 



fragrant; free blooming and of great value for forcing for cut 



Sowers. Extra Size Bulbs, 7oc. per doz.; So.OO per 100; §45.00 



per 1,000. 

 Golden Daffodil (Novelty). The finest yellow variety. Color 



bright golden yellow. $1.00 per doz.; S12.00 per 100. 

 General Pershing. A beautiful shade of pinkiest lavender with 



yellow lip tinted bronze. $1.00 per doz. ; $7.50 per 100 

 Mixed Hybrids. 75c, per doz.; $5.00 per 100 



Grape Hyacinths 



These pretty little Hyacinths are perfectly hardy and of the 

 easiest culture, they thrive and increase in either sunny or partially 

 shaded positions in the garden. When naturalized in little colonies 

 where they can remain undisturbed for several years, the effect is 

 very pretty, while as edging* they are most charming. All are also 

 adapted for winter flowering in the house. 

 Blue Grape Hyacinths. 35c. per doz.; $2.50 per 100. 

 White Grape Hyacinths. $1,00 per doz.; $7.50 per 100, 

 "Heavenly Blue" Grape Hyacinth*. A new type with larger flowers of richest gentian blue and 



delightfully fragrant; desirable for cutting and of splendid effect massed in the garden or border 



50c per doz.: $3.50 per 100. 



Lily of the Valley 



(Ready for delivery in November) 



These favorite fragrant flowers, may be grown in 

 any living room at ordinary room temperature. 

 Plant twenty-five roots or so in a large pot when 

 received, and in three or four weeks, you will have 

 a fine display of flowers. 



Henderson's Extra Sin^^le Crowns or "Pips." 

 The finest grade of Crowns in the world for winter 

 flowering. They will bear 12 to 16 large bells on 

 strong stalks, u-itk foliage, even when forced for 

 extra early; the pips average large, plump and 

 regular, with extra long roots. 25 Crowns (1 

 bundle) $2.00; 100 Crowns, $7.00; $60.00 per 1,000. 



Fortin's Giant. This is the largest variety yet 

 produced but it is only adapted for open ground 

 planting and may not show much superiority the 

 first spring after planting, but by the second season, 

 or when it gets well established, it produces wonder- 

 fully luxuriant foliage and immense spikes of purest 

 white bells. Crowns, $1.00 per doz.; $7.30 per 100. 



Oxalis 



Charming little half-trailing or bushy plants 

 particularly adapted for culture and hanging 

 baskets, the foliage alone is very attractive and 

 when in flower they are exceedingly pretty. 



Etermuda Buttercup. The flowers are of the 

 purest bright buttercup yellow. 5c. each; 50c. per 

 doz.; $3.50 per 100. 



Grand Duchess. A California variety of great 

 beauty. Extremely f rep-flowering from Novem- 

 ber till June. Price for either. White, Pink or 

 Lavender. 5c. each; 50c. per doz.; $3.50 per 100 



Rarlunculus 



These are unrivaled for their attractive colors, 

 ranging through shades of crimson, white, yellow, 

 purple, black, beautifully marked with other 

 shades. They flower profusely in pots in the house 

 during the winter or if grown in frames in the spring. 

 Remarkably vigorous growers with immense, 

 loosely double flowers. Double Giant French 

 Mixed. 60c, doz ; $4,50 per 100. 



Six bulbs of a variety sold at the dozen rate, 25 at the hundred r».tm 



on larger quantities. 



Scilla (BlueBdU) 



Scilia Siberica (Blufi) . (Amoena or Praecox.) 

 Beautiful hardy spring bulbs, producing masses 

 of exquisite rich blue flowers almost before the 

 snow has disappeared. If grown in masses, the 

 flowers fairly carpet the ground; and if grown 

 with Snowdrops and Crocus, for contrast, the 

 effect is magnificent. They should be largely 

 planted as undergrowth in Hyacinth beds, etc. 

 Grown in pots they may be had in bloom from 

 Christmas until April, 75c, per doz,; $5,00 per 

 100. 



Siberica Alba. The new white flowering variety, 

 very beautiful, 75c, doz,; $5.00 per 100. 



Campanuiata. (Wood Hyacinth or Bluebell.) 

 Flowers borne on tall spikes, i to 2 feet high. 

 Each flower measures nearly one inch across 

 and droops gracefully;, perfectly hardy; also 

 fine for pot culture. We offer the following 

 colors. 



Major Blue. 60c. per doz.; $4.00 per 100 



Rose. SOc. per doz.; $6.00 per 100. 



White. 60c. per doz.; $4.00 per 100. 



Snowdrops 



Used as a permanent edging, and in masses on 

 thd edges of lawns, nestling in the grass, they are 

 very charming Snowdrops are easily flowered in pots 

 during the winter. 



Single Snowdrops. 50c. per doz.; $3.00 per 100. 

 Double Snowdrops. SOc. per doz. ; $6.00 per 100. 

 Elwes' Giant Snowdrop. One of the finest of 

 the genus, at least three times the .size of the 

 ordinary single Snowdrop; flowers slightly 

 marked with green spots, fine for cutting. 60c 

 per doz.; $4.00 per 100. 



Winter Aconite 



(Eranthis Hyemalis) 

 Early in spring the golden blossoms look charm- 

 ing, forming a striking contrast to the Snowdrop, 

 Scillas and Chionodoxa. The foliage remains long 

 after the flowers, making the plant especially 

 valuable in moist situations under trees, where few 

 other flowering plants will thrive 3 to S inches 

 high. 35c. doz.; $2.50 per 100, 



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