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FLOWER SEEO SPECIALTIES 



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SUPERIOR GlflUT PilliSIES. 



Years of scientific culture, hybridization and selection in raising Pansies 

 have gradually evolved a superior race of luxuriant, robust growth and deep- 

 rooting, drought-withstanding quaBties; the flowers have also correspondingly 

 improved in size, substance, term and colors. At first there were only one or 

 two varieties in this class of pansies, but annually one or more varieties would 

 reach the goal of the Giants, until now we have such a complete variety of colors, 

 that we, this season, discard all ordinary-sized pansies, excepting those used in 

 our cheapest mixture, offered on page 70. 



■'/ think I have tried everybody's best pansies and none of them can hold 

 candle to Henderson's big ones." GRA CE POPE, Southuest Point, Canada. 



Giant TrimardeauPansies.. Mixed Colors pu. 



Atropurpiirea (Rex). Velvety royal-purple 



" Beauty. Claret, edged white, violet blotches 



Canary Bird. Pure, spotless veUow 



" Emperor WUliam. Indigo-hlue, blotched black 



" Empress Victoria. Porcelain-edged violet, purple blotches 



" Fire King. Crimson -purple and golden-vellow 



" King of the Blacks. Lustrous jet-black 



Lord Beaconsfield. Lavender, heliotrope and purple. . . . 



Garnet, cream and blue 



White w ith large -s-iolet blotches 



Golden-bronze 



Eose-pink, veined rosv-lilac 



Snow Queen . Spotless, snow-w hite ? 



Striped. White , blue, violet and chocolate 



Violet Marbled ■« hite 



Violet Marbled Yellow 



Victoria. Ox-bl ood red 



White Treasure. White w ith three violet blotches 



Yellow. Golden -yellow, three maroon blotches 



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Henderson's Collection o! 12 Giant Pansies. 



This collection contains one packet each of 12 of the largest and most beautiful 

 Pansies in cultivation. Price. 75c. 



fienderson's Mammotli Butterlly Pansies. 



THESE Pansies we are very proud of. We have sold them for a number of 

 years and receive hundreds of letters praising their superior beauty, size 

 and other merits; they were awarded a medal at the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, Chicago, w here they competed w ith the best from all over the world. When 

 our tmequaUed collections of all types of pansies are in blooin we go over them 

 daily and any plant producing flowers of superlative merit is removed to our 

 "Mammoth feutterfly" plot of pansies, where nothing but the largest, hand- 

 somest and most perfect are allowed to remain. Consequently the seed is saved 

 from the greatest varieties of tM:es. including only the best of Giant Cassiers, 

 Bugnots, Trimardeau. 5-blotched Odier. Giant English, French and German 

 Hybrids, etc.. resulting in the greatest variety of coloring, marking, blotching, 

 veining, etc, for brilliant and attractive beds, (.See cut.) Mixed Colors. 



Per 1,000 seeds, 75c Pkt. .25 



"/ have grown large pansies before, but never saw the equal of the 'Mammoth 

 Butterfly,' the seed of vhich I got from yov last fall. I have a large bed of them; the 

 plants are SO inches high, and the stems of the blossoms .9 inches long, while the 

 blossoms themsehes are sin ply rr.cnstrcvis. rath one a bread expanse of beavty." 



THOMAS C. STARR. Newton. Mass. 



Henderson's Giant Ruttled Pansies. 



A REMARKABLE strain of Giant Pansies, the flowers of which are so large 

 and full that the broad petals seem to be "gathered" to the stem, caus- 

 ing them to be undulated and fluted from centre to circumference, not 

 unlike "frilled" velvet. The unusual substance of the flowers, aided by these 

 corrugations, thus enables them to present bold, open and handsome faces, even 

 during windy or dry summer weather, when other pansy flowers flop or wilt. 

 The flowers arc extraordinarily^ large and are borne on strong stems well above 

 the foliage; they are nearly all five-hlotched on the "Odier" pattern, and con- 

 tain rich combinations of coloring, including some new tints and blendings not 

 met with in other pansies. The plants are vigorous and large, and flower 



abundantly. Mixed Colors. Per l.COO seeds, 75c Pkt. .25 



New Giant EufBed Eed Pansy. Grand large frilled flowers, of bright deep 



red with a large dark maroon blotch on each petal 25 



New Giant Ruffled Violet. JIagnificently fluted flowers, often 4 inches across, 



of a velvety indigo-violet, with large golden eye 25 



New Giant Etiffled Silver Edge, Large, elegantly undulated flowers broadly 

 edged with silver\--white surrounding violet-blue blotches 25 



Henderson's Mammotli Parisian Pansies. 



THE Parisian Pansies are distinguished by their maprificent and varied col- 

 ors and strong markings. There is u.suallj- a large "blotch" on each 

 of the five petals, with a surrounding band of some strikingly contrasting 

 color, over all of which is thrown a cobweb-like netting of yet another hue. The 

 combinations prevailing are composed of shades of cinnamon, violet, canary and 

 orange-yellow, black, garnet, light blue, indigo, cream, etc. These pansies have 

 been brought up to a high standard of excellence, the flowers being of fine sub- 

 stance, perfect shape and of mammoth size, measuring, when properly cultivated, 

 four inches across. A large number of the.se pansies are also very fragrant. 

 Mixed Colors. Per l.OOO .■seeds. 75c Pkt. .25 



Henderson's Giant Mottled Pansies. 



A DISTINCT new i\-pe of Pansies of greatest merit. The flowers are of 

 giant size and are borne in profusion — well-grown thev measure 3 to 

 3\ inches across — and of most gorgeous effects, blotched, spotted, m.tr- 

 bled, veined, striped and blended, colons passing through reds, rose, pink, white, 

 purple, in beautiful and indescribable variegation. These pansies were awarded 

 1 prize at the Paris Exposition. Mixed Colors. Per 1 .0<"'0 srpds. 7r,c.. Pit. 25 



HENDERSON'S MAMMOTH BUTTERFLY PANSIES {^oraifo.-e/'hl' wl^^fd} at the Columbian Exposition and were awarded the medal. 



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