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HENDERSON’S 
SELECTED 15 ™" 5 PETUNIAS 
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PETUNIA, COMPACT BEDDING 
(P. Nana Compacta Multiflora ) 
Dense, bushv little plants, only about 8 inches high; the flowers, while 
not large, in their profusion fairly hide the plants; beautiful for garden beds, 
edgings and pots. 
3302 Inimitable. Cherry-red, with a white throat . Pkl. 10c. 
3304 Norma. Velvety-blue, with white center . Pkl. 10c. 
3306 Pink Mound. Rosy-pink, with white throat . Pkl. 10c. 
3308 Snowball. White flowers .... Pkl. 10c. 
3310 Compacta, Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 50c.; Pkl. 10c. 
PETUNIA, Henderson’s GIANT DOUBLE 
‘‘GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA” 
These are as large as Hollyhocks, and very double. The edges are fringed, 
petals fluted and crinkled, intensifying and varying the colors with high 
lights and dark shadows, bringing out a richness and effect unmatched by 
crumpled velvet, which the flowers resemble. There is a variety of colors— 
seifs, blotched, veined, margined, etc.; in short, these Double Petunias are 
unsurpassed by any other strain in the world. (See engraving on opposite 
page.) 
3320 Mixed Colors. Pkt. 50c 
NOTE .— This strain of Double-flowering Petunias do not produce seed. 
The pollen from the doubles is transferred to the chosen singles which produce 
the seed; in consequence only about one-third of the progeny will be double- 
flowering plants, and these in the seedling stage are always the weaklings of the 
batch and are the ones to be coddled. Even the best double-flowering plants of 
these may only bear a single or semi-double flower at first. 
PENTSTEMON 
These should be grown as half-hardy annuals, they are then a valuable 
addition to beds and borders in summer. The seedlings produce an abun¬ 
dance of scarlet and pink shades with white markings which are very attrac¬ 
tive. Pentstemons are best grown in beds, or in groups of not less than 
twelve plants in borders, where they will give a brilliant color effect. If sown 
indoors during February or March, and planted out in genial weather there 
will be a profusion of richly colored flowers the following summer. Height, 
2 feet. 
3283 “Excelsior.” A new variety having very large flowers, colors range 
from white to deep scarlet. Mixed Colors . Pkt. 25c. 
3285 “Sensation.” A Giant Gloxina-flowered type, though perennial, these 
bloom early the first season from spring-sown seed. The graceful 
spikes, about 2 feet high, are bedecked with flowers, two incites across, 
from July until frost. The colors and markings are gorgeously varied 
from pink to scarlet and maroon, all beautifully blotched and veined 
with other colors; a large white throat further enlivens and intensified 
the surrounding colors. They deserve a prominent place in every 
garden . Pkt. 10c. 
PHLOX DRUMMONDII GRAND!FLORA 
For beds and massing nothing can surpass these beautiful annuals. They 
produce immense trusses of large brilliant flowers of numberless hues through¬ 
out the summer; l A feet high. Our large-flowering Phlox is an improved 
strain, extra large, perfectly round flowers, with overlapping petals. They 
are of easy culture, succeeding in all sunny positions, beginning to bloom in 
early summer from spring-sown seed and continuing until close of autumn. 
(See engraving.) 
3382 Alba. White. Per 1,000 seeds, 40c.; Pkl. 10c. 
3383 Brilliant Rose. Pink and rose . Per 1,000 seeds, 40c.; Pkl. 10c. 
3384 Chamois-rose. Salmon-pink, orange-eye. 
Per 1,000 seeds, 40c.; Pkl. 10c. 
3385 Coccinea. Brilliant scarlet . Per 1,000 seeds, 40c.; Pkt. 10c. 
3387 Isabellina. Yellow, garnet eye. Per 1,000 seeds, 40c.; Pkt. 10c. 
3389 Grandiflora Splendens. Dazzling scarlet with large white eye. 
Per 1,000 seeds , 40c.; Pkt. 10c. 
3390 Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 35c.; Pkt. 10c. 
3391 Imported Collection of Phlox Drummondii Grandiflora, 6 varieties, 40c. 
3395 Star-eyed (Stellata), Mixed Colors. Grand large flowers, beautiful 
colors, each flower having a white, star-like eye. Pkt. 10c. 
PETUNIA, DOUBLE SELF-SEEDING 
3330 This new strain is unique from the fact that the double flowers produce 
seed insuring a larger percentage of double-flowering plants (about 60 
per cent.) than can be raised from singles artificially pollenized from 
double flowers, which is necessary in producing all other Double Petu¬ 
nias from seed. The flowers of these Double Self-seeding Petunias are 
large—double — and include a variety of different colors. Pkt. 50c. 
PETUNIA, Henderson’s GIANT SINGLE 
“GIANTS OF CALIFORNIA” 
A strain of incomparable beauty and size. Most of the flowers are ex¬ 
quisitely ruffled or fringed on the edges, and all are of enormous dimensions, 
4 to 5 inches across, but their great merits lie in the tremendous variety of 
colors, shades and markings, in most beautiful combinations. Some colors 
are rich and gorgeous and others of lovely delicate shades. (See engraving 
on opposite page.) 
3332 Aurora. Rose-pink, veined crimson. Pkt. 25c. 
3334 Fimbriata Alba. White, with yellow throat. . Pkt. 25c. 
3336 Empress. Lavender, toning off white, netted violet; throat black. 
Pkt. 25c. 
3338 Kermesina. Deep crimson........-... .'. Pkt. 25c. 
3342 Miranda. Rosy-red, with scarlet throat. Pkt. 25c. 
3344 Quadricolor. Rose, netted carmine; throat blood-red with a 
starlike yellow center. Pkt. 25c. 
3346 Royal Purple. Rich royal purple.. Pkl. 25c, 
3348 The Queen. A lovely large, fringed-flowered variety of rose- 
pink, variously marked with white; throat yellow. Pkt. 25c. 
3352 Titania. Royal-purple, edged white. Pkt. 25c. 
3360 Giant, Fringed, Single, Mixed Colors. 
Per 1,000 seeds, SI.00; Pkt. 25c. 
PETUNIA, BEDDING 
LARGE SINGLE BLOTCHED AND STRIPED 
Bedding Petunias are almost indispensable for garden 
decoration. They flower in a few weeks’ time from seed and 
continue to grow, bud and bloom in luxuriance until frost. 
The strain of seed we herewith offer is our very finest selection 
from this type of Petunia, producing large, single flowers, 
blotched, striped, netted, etc., including all the Petunia 
colors; height, 1 foot. 
3370 Mixed Colors. . Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Per A oz., SI.00; 
Pkt. 10c. 
“ The Petunia seeds I bought from you last year produced flowers 
that were a dream. I never saw anything like them before, although 
they were not watered for eight solid weeks.” , _ t 
Mrs. II. V. D. GILES, Highland Park, Mtch. 
“The Petunias I had from you last year were the admiration of all 
my ftiends. I also wish to thank you for your beautiful catalogue, and ^ 
to say that we had the best results from seeds wc purchased from you. 
M. L. IIA NF, R. F. D. No. 2, Rochester, N. Y. 
‘‘I wish you could see my double Petunias grown from your seed. My 
windows are full of them. Everyone who goes by admires them.” 
Mrs. E. A. HAMLIN, Brownsville, Me. 
*‘I have always better results from your Petunia seed than from any other. ’ 
JOHN B. RUD Y, Florist, Elmira, N. Y. 
“ The Petunias I grew from your seed last year were indeed very beautiful.'' 
Mrs. CIIA RLES II. GAGE, Fairfield, Iowa. 
PHLOX, HENDERSON’S JUBTLEE 
Grand acquisition, forming sturdy little bushes only 8 inches high, pro¬ 
ducing masses of bloom from ground to summit. The flowers, borne in im¬ 
mense trusses, are unusually large and of superior substance. For bedding 
this is a most brilliantly effective annual type. 
3400 Brilliant Mixture, of several shades and colors. 
Per 1,000 seeds, 50c.; Pkt. 10c. 
PHLOX DRUMMONDII 
(Nana Compacta) 
A very desirable dwarf annual variety, growing 
edgings and 
borders. 
3 inches high, fine for 
(See engraving.) 
3405 Fireball. Per 1.000 
seeds 50c., Pkt. 10c. 
3406 Snowball. 
Per 1,000 
seeds, 50c. 
Pkt. 10c. 
Hender¬ 
son’s Gar¬ 
den Guide 
and Record 
sent free with 
orders of 82.00 or 
over if asked for. 
i921 witnesses the dawn of our 75th year in business. Founded in 1847 by Peter Henderson , the business is still carried on by his 
son and grandsons. 
