PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK. — WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. — PLANTS. 



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Henderson's "Superb" Collection 



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Doubte-Fringed » » » PRTI INI A 5 



SEE COLORED PLATE IN RETAIL CATALOGUE. 



IN CALLING attention to the beautiful colored plate of Double Petunias in our Retail Catalogue, we feel a pardonable pride in alluding 

 to our successful efforts, extending over a number of years, towards improving this very useful and beautiful race of plants. To none which we 

 cultivate do we devote more care and labor, employing only the most skilled hands, and hybridizing the tens of thousands of flowers by hand, a 

 slow and expensive process, but justified by the results as shown in the grand varieties we illustrate on the colored plate. When it is considered that 

 the varieties shown were selected from over a thousand plants, and that they, in turn, are a selection from over ten thousand seedlings, some estimate 

 can be formed of the scrupulous and watchful care we exercise in selecting. Beginning with the time we illustrated the variety "Magnet" on a colored 

 plate up to the present, we have never ceased our efforts towards improvement, and the " superb collection " offered now is the crowning glory of over 

 a quarter of a century's intelligent, persistent labor. The perfection to which a race of flowers can be brought by the florist's and seedman's skill finds 

 a fitting illustration in these wonderful Double Petunias now offered; but they are worthy of all the care bestowed upon them, for in the whole range 

 of garden plants there are none that can be said to excel the Double Petunia. They are of the easiest culture, growing in any soil which will main- 

 tain plant life, and producing the most showy flowers in wonderful profusion. The variety of uses to which they can be put is extraordinary — baskets, 

 vases, beds, borders — in any and every situation they find a congenial home. The flowers are very useful for table decoration, laid on a flat dish and 

 garnished with their own foliage, or cut with long stems and placed in vases. A description of each seems superfluous taken with the colored plate; in 

 fact, it is almost impossible to accurately describe the markings, so delicately and wonderfully does a bounteous nature bestow and blend them, but we 

 call particular attention to the Pink variety, Mrs. F. Sander, although to many it may seem an invidious distinction, when each one has such strong 

 claims to admiration. 



SUNRISE 



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The variety on the upper left-hand corner of the colored plate. 

 Pearly white, suffused with a faint flush and deepening to rosy pink, 

 with here and there a petal blotched with carmine pink; this blending of 

 color suggested the name of "Sunrise." 



Price, $2. perdoz.; $10.00 per ioo. 



GARNET 



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In striking contrast to the above is its companion on the right-hand 

 upper corner of the colored plate. If one suggests Aurora the other 

 revives memories of the orb of day as he sinks in a blaze of glowing 

 crimson, or, nearer still, the subdued but rich lights of the Garnet. 



Price, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



« ■> ■> SEA FOAM ► ► - 



The greatest achievement of the hybridizer in Double Petunias is 

 to produce a fine double fringed variety of a pure white; this we have 

 occasionally succeeded in doing, but never have we obtained one that for 

 purity of color, form, size and vigor of growth was the superior of " Sea 

 Foam." 



Price, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



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For the first time we are enabled to offer a pure pink Double 

 Fringed Petunia. At rare intervals we have had varieties of a lavender 

 pink shade, but here we have one fully the equal in color of the finest 

 Carnations. The culmination of the hybridizer's art is reached in Mrs. 

 F. Sander. 



Price, $2.50 per doz.; $16.00 per 100. 



RUBY 



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A clear white ground, with masses of ruby red showing clear and 

 distinct, a blending of two strong contrasting colors bringing out shades 

 it is impossible to describe or to show with the pigments to be obtained; 

 a bold flower of the largest size and deeply fringed, these are the lead- 

 ing characteristics of "Ruby." 



Price, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



AflETHYST 



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A softening of color effects a great harmony of light and shade, 

 the blending of rich violet and transparent mauve, with soft pearly 

 white, these make up a pleasing contrast to the bolder color effects of 

 the preceding, and as such will, without doubt, find many admirers for 

 "Amethyst." 



Price, $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Special ©ffer. 



The full collection of six Double Fringed Petunias tor 75c. 



of varieties. $1.00 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



Our selection 



DOUBLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. 



Plants grown from the same strain of seed which produced the 

 above varieties, but not all of them are certain to be double. Such of 

 them as come single will, however, be certain to be larger and more 

 brilliantly colored than any of the regular single Petunias. 



Price, 50c. per doz.; $4.00 per 100. 



SINGLE SEEDLING PETUNIAS. 



These are grown from seed of our own saving, and are the same 

 strain as those we use in our hybridizing to obtain double flowers. 

 Many of them will be finely fringed; most of them are sure to be highly 

 colored varieties. For massing in beds or borders these are unequalled. 



Price, 40c. per doz.; $3.00 per 100. 



SEEDS of Henderson's Superb Double-Fringed Petunias. 



As an illustration of the care necessary to produce this 

 seed, we state that it costs us in labor alone $200.00 per 

 ounce, or about eleven times its weight in gold. We have a limited quantity of this seed for sale, and offer it at 35c. per packet. 



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