HENDERSON’S “Ulffl” COLLECTIOH Of SWEET PEAS. 
In no section of the floral kingdom has the hybridizer’s 
skill been more amply rewarded than in the introduction of 
this magnificent new class of Large Flowering Sweet Peas, 
the flowers being nearly double the size of the ordinary—the 
wings being almost round—the exquisite colors also far sur¬ 
pass any thing previously introduced, being rich and varied 
in the extreme, many of them of soft and charming shades 
suffused with an entirely different color, over which is laid a 
net-work of fine veins resembling frost-work; some are also 
rich and gorgeous, ranging through bright scarlet, carmine, 
velvety-red, blue, white, etc. Their elegance, combined with 
their delicious perfume, renders them exceptionally valuable 
for garden decoration and for cut flowers, and they are now 
“the fashionable flowerlittle bunches of them being continu¬ 
ally met with, worn as corsage bouquets, and carried in the 
hands pf New York ladies. 
AUTOCRAT. —Wine shaded violet, with ultra- 
marine wings. AUTUMN TINTS. —Pink and orange 
suffused with scarlet, wings soft rose netted with pink. 
BEAUTY. —A magnificent glowing crimson scarlet. 
CAPRICE. —White watered and striped with mauve. 
FAIRY. —Bright rose; light mauve wings. VENUS. 
Rose and violet blue, veined and spotted. 
Price of any of the above varieties, IS cents per packet; or, the collection of six varieties, 75 cents. 
All purchasers of the entire collection of six varieties of Sweet Peas offered above for 75 cents will be sent, without charge, our Manual 
of* “Everything for the Garden,” a handsome book of 140 pages, illustrated by three colored plates, and containing hundreds of 
illustrations of flowers, fruits and vegetables. To all others, the manual will be sent on receipt of twenty-five cents (in stamps). 
35 & 37 COURTLANDT ST., 
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Received in Payment. 
PETER HENDERSON & CO. 
ceene My 1888 Catalogue of Ncw& CDCC 
OCEUw True Seeds, at Just Prices, riltfc 
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_ True Seeds,at Just Prices. 
Geo. H. Colvi n, Seed Grower. Ualton, Pa. 
FARMERS sow phosphate in rows or broadcast 
with the l-norse 2-row fertilizer. Circulars. 
J. I. DU JIOIS. JK., Freehold, N. J. 
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APPLE Trees, three and four years old; PEACH 
Trees, one year old. Price List on application. 
GRAY HR OS , New Canaan, Conn. 
IOWA 
Grown in IOWA, the garden spot 
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give bent results. New Catalogue 
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DEATH to insects in house, garden, orchard and 
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SEED 
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I have founded 
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grower. Raising a large proportion of my seed enables 
me to warrant its freshness and purity, as see my Vege¬ 
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for every son and daughter of Adam. It is 
liberally illustrated with engravings made directly 
from photographs of vegetables grown on my seed 
farms. Besides an immense variety of standard seed, you 
will find in it some valuable new vegetables not found in 
any other catalogue. As the original introducer of the 
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i -XJMMIT POTATO. 
F Catalogue for 1888 Now Ready. 
• over 300 VARIETIES GROWN LAST SEASON. 
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FLOWER 
IBLEY’S TESTED SEED 
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Catalogue Fkek ' Containing 
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LOVETT’S GUIDE 
TO FRUIT CULTURE 
For 1883 
Is more beautiful and useful than 
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SEEDS <iIVKN A W A Y! A package JIlxecL 
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CHOICE NORTHERN GROWN 
SEED POTATOES 
IP bu. $ bbl. 
200 Barrels Fxtra Early Essex.$2 00 $5 50 
100 „ New Early Chas. Downing.... 2 50 6 00 
50 „ Pearl of Savoy. 2 00 5 00 
25 „ Early Beauty of Hebron 2 00 5 00 
10 „ Snow Queen (New Late) fine.. 2 00 5 00 
The "Early Essex” Is unsurpassed for earliness, fine 
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