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HENDERSON’S SELECTED 
SGABIOSA 
(Scabiosa Maxima plena) 
■'Sweet Scabious” or “Mourning Bride” 
SHOWN IN COLORS ON THIS PAGE 
A new double, large-flowered annual type descended from the 
“Sweet Scabious” or “Mourning Bride” of old gardens, but are much 
improved in size, colors and doubleness. Many of the flowers measure 
C to 9 inches in^circumference, are double clear to the center, and have 
long stems. They are very free bloomers; very effective for garden 
decoration and valuable for bouquets, vases, etc.; very fragrant. 
Annuals, 1J4 to 2 feet high. 
Royal Purple. Pkt. 10c. 
Snowball. Pure white. 10c. 
Golden-yellow. 10c. 
Fiery-scarlet. 10c. 
Azure Fairy. Light blue. 10c. 
Cerise. Lovely cerise-red. 10c. 
Maxima Plena, Mixed Colors. Per 1,000 seeds, 50c.; Pkt. 10c. 
Collection of above 6 separate varieties.50c. 
Customer’s Selection of Scabiosa—any three 10c. pkts for 25c. 
SCABIOSA, Hardy Varieties 
Caucasica Perfecta. The old “Caucasian Scabious” is recognized as 
one of our handsomest hardy perennials, forming dense, spreading 
plants 2 to 3 feet high, thriving in any ordinary garden soil. In this 
new variety. “Perfecta,” we have attained the highest perfection of 
this type; the semi-double flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, are poised 
on stalks 1 % to 2 feet long, making them of exceptional value cut 
for vases, etc. The coloring of the flowers is a beautiful lilac-blue 
shading to deep blue. Pkt. 15c. 
Caucasica Alba. A large, pure white variety; counterpart of the 
above; beautiful; the flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, on long stems, 
are exquisite for vases, lasting a long time in water, and they are 
borne freely like those of its blue-colored parent from early summer 
to late fall. Pkt. 25c. 
SCABIOSA JAPONICA 
A new hardy perennial Scabious from Japan, forming large bushes 
23-4 to 3 feet in height and breadth, with elegant light green foliage. 
Flowers 2 to 2 X A inches across, on long wiry stems from 15 to 20 inches 
in length, of a beautiful mauve or lavender-blue. The plants, ex¬ 
tremely free-flowering, produce their lovely flowers continuously from 
the end of June until late in the autumn. Pkt . 10c. 
One packet each of the three hardy Scabiosas, Perfecta, Alba and 
Japonica, for 40c. 
SCHIZANTHUS 
Wonderfully showy annuals; very decorative for garden beds and 
unsurpassed in pots for the conservatory, where by successive sowing a 
continuous display may be enjoyed almost the year round. The 
plants are of compact, branchy growth l x A to 2 feet high and are 
literally sheeted with exquisite, butterfly-like flowers much larger 
than those of the ordinary Schizanthus, and include beautiful new 
color combinations. (See engraving, page 124.) 
Wisetonensis Hybrids, Large-flowering, Mixed Colors. Beautiful 
colors and combinations in great variety. Pkt. 10c. 
Dr. Badger’s Giant-flowering Hybrids. A superb new strain growing 
robust and bushy, 134 to 2 feet in height, with handsome bright 
green Fern-like foliage. The flowers borne in prodigal profusion 
are unusually large, measuring from 1 to \% inches across; they 
are of much substance — very lasting— and show an endless variety 
of bright colorings. The light varieties of white, pink, buff-rose or 
yellow have beautifully marked centers, zoned by a deeper shade. 
The darker sorts are of purple, mauve or red, with center lines of 
yellow or white margined by a deep tone of the ground color. 
Pkt. 25c. 
SILENE 
Pendula Compacta, Double. An effective garden annual forming 
compact, round bushes, 0 inches high, which, during the summer, 
are covered densely with flowers of white, pink or red. For low 
beds or edgings it is very pretty. Mixed Colors. Pkt. 5c. 
SMILAX 
Charming tender perennial climber for greenhouse or window 
gardens. The foliage and stems are of a pleasing light green; very 
graceful. Excellent for decoration. Pkt. 10c. 
HENDERSON’S GARDEN PLANS AND SUG¬ 
GESTIONS tell much about creating flower gardens from 
seeds. Sent free if asked for when ordering. 
