The Garden Magazine, February, 1924 
365 
HENDERSON’S 
SEEDS ARE 
TESTED 
SEEDS 
Henderson’s 
“Cut-flower” 
H enderson’s 
“cut-flower” collection 
15 packets of $1 .00 
garden annuals for X 
Regular Price $1.75 
Collection— 
15 Varieties 
ASTER—Semplis Mixed — Begin 
blooming about September 1st. 
Large, double flowers on long 
stems. 
ANTIRRHINUM—Tall giant mixed, 
an improved variety of “Snap¬ 
dragon.” Blooms in July and 
continues in increasing proportion 
until frost. Flowers are nearly 
double the size of older variety. 
CALENDULA—Orange King. Hen¬ 
derson’s improved Calendulas 
form bushy plants 1 foot high and 
are literally covered with large, 
double flowers. Intense golden 
orange color. 
SCABIOSA—Maxima Plena Mixed. 
New double, large-flowered type. 
Flowers measure 6-8 inches in cir¬ 
cumference. Long stems. Fra¬ 
grant. 
Fresh cut flowers daily on your 
tables indoors! With Henderson’s 
new collection of cut-flower seeds 
you can keep your garden blooming 
from early summer to late fall 
Asters, Calendulas, Sweet Peas, 
Carnations, Nasturtiums, and ten 
other favorite varieties. 
Years of experience by Henderson 
horticulturists have wonderfully im¬ 
proved the dependable varieties in 
this group. To-day their blooms are 
larger, more graceful, and their color¬ 
ings more exquisite than ever before. 
Each flower in this collection is beau¬ 
tiful in itself—altogether they make 
a flower garden to delight the most 
particular gardener’s heart! 
| This new collection of cut-flowers is 
offered to you for the first time at 
a special introductory price of $1.00. 
Ordinarily you would pay $1.75. 
Henderson"s seeds are tested seeds 
Since 1847 Henderson’s tested seeds have been 
the standard by which all other seeds were 
judged! 77 years of experience in successful 
seed raising is back of every packet of Henderson’s 
seeds! 
It doesn’t pay to take chances with seed. 
Scientific methods of testing are rigidly followed 
in the preparation of all Henderson’s seeds for 
market. 
These famous tested seeds are being used by 
an ever growing number of people because they 
know from experience Henderson’s seeds bring 
results. 
Peter Henderson & Co. 
35-37 Cortlandt Street 
New York City 
PETER HENDERSON & CO. 
35-37 Cortlandt Street, New York City 
Enclosed is $1.00. Please send me the following: 
i Henderson’s “Cut-Flower” collection of 15 flower annuals—price $1.00—together 
i with catalogue “Everything for the Garden.” 
J Name. 
B 
D Street. 
| City.State. 
GAILLARDIA—Single Annual Mix¬ 
ed. Very strong annuals. 1 to 2 
feet high. Large flowers. Produce 
blooms from early summer until 
frost. 
GYPSOPHILA—Paris market. Im¬ 
proved, large-flowering variety 
with branching plants about 2 feet 
high smothered all summer long 
with clusters of snow-white 
flowers. 
SWEET PEAS—Giant flowering 
Spencer Mixed. Extremely beau¬ 
tiful, the fairest formed and largest 
Sweet Pea ever grown. Exquisite 
colors. 
DI DISCUS COERULEA — “Blue 
Lace Flower.” Extensively grown. 
The lovely, umbel-shaped flowers 
are composed of a great number of 
small florets. Color is beautiful 
clear coerulean, or heavenly blue 
—a rare shade. Produces from 
July to October. 
HELICHRYSUM MONSTROSUM 
—Mixed. Produces abundantly 
during the summer. The dried 
flowers are prized for interior decor¬ 
ative purposes during the winter 
months. 
CARNATION MARGUERITE— 
Mixed. Flowers often measure 3 
inches across. Colors include, 
white, blush, deep pink, salmon, 
scarlet, dark crimson, maroon. 
Flowers in about 12 weeks’ time. 
CENTAUREA IMPERIALIS—Mix¬ 
ed or “Imperial Sweet Sultan”—a 
beautiful giant flowering variety— 
long stemmed, exquisitely fringed 
blossoms, 3 to 4 inches across. 
After cutting last 10 days in water. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM—Double An¬ 
nual—Mixed. An improved var¬ 
iety which forms bushy, compact 
plants about 18 inches high. 
Flowers abundantly. 
DIANTHUS CROWN OF PER¬ 
FECTION—Mixed—unrivalled for 
brilliancy and rich variety of 
color. Double flowers average 6 
inches in circumference. Produce 
in great numbers all summer and 
autumn. Wide variety of colors. 
NASTURTIUM TOM THUMB— 
Giant Flowering Mixed—flowers 
measure 3 inches across. Great 
variety of new and charming color 
combinations. Bloom from early 
summer to frost. 
A RCTOTIS GRANDIS—A beau¬ 
tiful new annual from Southwest 
Africa. Large, pearly white, mar¬ 
guerite-like flowers on long stems. 
Petals are white on the upper sur¬ 
face and pale lilac on reverse. 
Center is a light blue disc sur¬ 
rounded by white stamens and a 
narrow golden band. 
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