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100 EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN - Flower Seeds 
HENDERSON’S EVER-BLOOMING 
ANNUAL HOLLYHOCKS 
FLOWER THE FIRST SEASON FROM SEED 
Every Garden may now be Glorified with Queenly Holly¬ 
hocks Grown as Easily and Flowering as Quickly 
from Seed as any Garden Annual 
The old favorite Hollyhock can seldom be flowered from seed before 
the second year, and as the young plants frequently winter-kill, it has 
limited the cultivation of Hollyhocks to those willing to give the young 
plants special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in growing our 
annual Hollyhocks, for they flower the first season from seed. 
The plants from early-sown seed set out in May commence blooming in 
July, the May-sown in August, and in either event they flower profusely 
until frost. 
The flower buds, borne in clusters, vary in maturity from the developing 
bud to the expanding flower; this characteristic accounts for the remark¬ 
ably long flowering period, and, besides, the plants continuously push 
outside branches as well as new spikes from the base, all of which also 
develop their quota of flowers almost ad infinitum. 
The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many de¬ 
lightful surprises. Some plants produce densely double flowers without 
guards, others with guard petals; there are semi-doubles with Anemone- 
flowered centers, some with smooth-edged petals, others flounced, fringed, 
etc., and all flowers are usually very large, some measuring five inches 
across. In colors there is also great variety, some richly brilliant, others 
dainty and exquisite, then there are colors and tints in charming com¬ 
binations. There are maroon, black, junk, chamois-rose, apricot with 
garnet throat, crimson, canary yellow, pink with claret throat and veins, 
blush with carmine lacings, cerise, white, scarlet, blush with white throat, 
magenta, apricot with buff margin, wine-red with white edge, etc., etc. 
The plants are of vigorous and healthy growth and naturally branching 
in habit. The center spike, if not pinched, attains a height of from 8 to 
10 feet, after which, if permitted, the side shoots from the base commence 
to lengthen, growing candelabra-like, 3 to 5 feet long. The plants are 
amenable to training; that is, the main stem may be kept at any desired 
height by pinching out the tip, or it may be kept low and induce earlier 
development in the side branches thus forming a bush. (See engraving.) 
2450 Henderson’s Ever-Blooming Annual Hollyhocks. Grand Combina¬ 
tion Mixture of doubles and semi-doubles, including all colors, shades 
and variegations. Per 500 seeds, $1.00; Pkt. 15c. 
2455 Single-flowering Hollyhocks, Mixed Colors. 
Per 500 seeds , 35c.; Pkt. 10c. 
2460 Allegheny Hollyhocks, Mixed Colors. Semi-double fringed flowers. 
Per 500 seeds, 50c.; Pkt. 10c. 
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HELIOTROPE 
Giant-flowering. The heads of bloom of this new type often measure 
a foot across. The plants, 18 inches high, are healthy, bushy and com¬ 
pact; the leaves are large and luxuriant. Seed sown in the spring produces 
full-grown, profuse-flowering plants by July, which flower in the garden 
until cut down by frost, or may be grown in pots for winter flowers. 
2396 Lemoine’s Giant Blue. Deep blue. Pkt. 15c. 
2398 Lemoine’s Giant White. Pearly-white. . . Pkt. 15c. 
2400 Lemoine’s Giant Hybrid, Mixed Colors. Pkt. 10c. 
One packet each of blue and white Lemoine’s Giant Heliotrope for 25 c. 
HIBISCUS or MARSH MALLOWS 
These are showy, hardy plants, forming bushes about 3 feet high, bearing 
immense bowl-like flowers, often 6 inches across. 
2408 Giant Yellow. Yellow, garnet throat . Pkt. 10c. 
2410 Giant Rainbow. A grand hardy perennial shrub, growing from 5 
to 6 feet high, producing beautiful single flowers 6 to 8 inches in 
diameter, the colors range from white and pink to many shades of 
red and crimson, which we offer in mixture . Pkt. 15c. 
HARDY DOUBLE HOLLYHOCK 
Grand summer and autumn flowering plants, bearing long spikes of 
double flowers, 3 to 4 inches across. They are old inhabitants of our 
gardens, but are now so improved in doubleness and enlarged in size, under 
our special culture and hybridization, as to be revelations of gorgeous 
beauty to those who have not seen these improved sorts. Hardy bien¬ 
nials—or short-lived perennials—5 to 8 feet high. The seed we offer has 
been saved from an unrivalled collection. 
2423 Double Canary-yellow... Pkt. 10c. 
2424 Double Crimson. Pkt. 10c. 
2426 Double Lavender.... Pkt. 10c. 
2427 Double Maroon. Pkt. 10c. 
2429 Double Pink. Pkt. 10c. 
2432 Double Purple. Pkt. 10c. 
2435 Double White. Pkt. 10c. 
2436 Double White, Violet Center. Pkt. 10c. 
2440 Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. 
Per 500 seeds, 50c.; Pkt. 10c. 
IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Double Hardy Hollyhock Seeds 
2441 6 Separate Colors. Pkt. 40c. 
2442 12 Separate Colors. Pkt. 75c. 
“Our hardy Hollyhocks bloomed last year from seed sown the year before 
were a joy and pride.” 
Mrs. J. M. TEBBETTS, Marshfield, Vt. 
For Helichrysum Monslrosum (Everlasting Straw flowers) See colored plate on page 121, 
