•••PETER HENDERSON A CO., NEW YORK- 
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HENDERSON'S 
EVEK-BLOOM1NG ANNUAL 
Hollyhocks 
Every Garden may now be Glorified with 
Queenly Hollyhocks 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 
the Hollyhock to those willing to give the young plants 
special winter care. All of this bother is obviated in 
growing our new hybrid Hollyhocks, for they flower the 
first season from seed, which may be started in the house 
or hotbed from February to April, or be sown in the open 
ground in May. 
The plants from early-sown seed set out in May com¬ 
mence 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 remarkably long flowering 
period, and, besides, the plants continuously push out 
side branches as well as new spikes from the base, all of 
which also develop their quota of flowers almost ad 
infinitum. Open flowers sometimes encircle the spikes 
compactly — veritable columns of bloom — but usually 
the flowers expand in irregular groups, in a charmingly 
informal fashion. 
The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers 
affords many delightful 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., 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 blended in 
charming combinations. There are maroon, black, pink, 
chamois-rose, apricot with garnet throat, crimson, canary- 
yellow, pink with claret throat and veins, blush with 
carmine lacings, cerise, white, Geranium-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. 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR 
Double Hardy Hollyhocks 
Grand summer and autumn flowering plants, bearing long spikes of double 
flowers, 3 to 4 inches across. They arc 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 biennial, 5 to 8 iect high. The seed 
we offer has been saved from our unrivaled collection of choicest improved double 
varieties. 
Double Blush. Pkt. 10c. 
“ Canary-Yellow. 10c. 
“ Crimson.10c. 
“ Deep Rose.10c. 
“ Lavender.10c. 
“ Light Apricot.10c. 
Double Black. Pkt. 10c. 
*• Maroon. 10c. 
“ Pink. 10c. 
“ Purple. 10c. 
“ White.10c. 
“ “ Violet Center. 10c. 
Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. 1.000 seeds, 75c., Pkt. 10c. 
IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Superior Double Hardy Hollyhocks. 
6 Separate colors.40c. 12 Separate colors...75c. 
Single flowering Hollyhocks. Mixed Colors. 1.000 seeds, 50c. Pkt. 5c. 
Allegheny Hollyhocks. Mixed Colors. Semi-double fringed flowers. 1,000 seeds, 
60c. Pkt. 10c. 
Price of Seed—Henderson's Evc Ann°u 0 a.T ;n8 Hollyhocks 
Grand Combination Mixture of doubles and semi-doubles, including all colors, 
shades and variegations. Per Pkt. (about 60 seeds), 15c.; Per 500 Seeds, $1.00. 
From those who have grown Henderson's Annual Ever-Blooming Hollyhocks: 
“/ was much pleased with the Ever-blooming Hollyhocks I had from you last 
year. They commenced blooming in August and continued in bloom until cut off 
by frost.” GEO. A. PITT, Portland, Maine. 
“ Your Hybrid Ever-blooming Hollyhocks are most decidedly an acquisition. They 
come into flower in four months from seed and are very free blooming and exceed¬ 
ingly handsome.” 
WM. EDWARDS, Gardener to Geo. Cameron, Esq., Petersburg, Va. 
“ I have never known such fine Hollyhocks as came from . your Ever-blooming 
kind, the seeds of 'which were planted in the open ground last April. They began 
to floiver the last of July and I had six, eight or ten spikes on nearly every plant. 
One CANNOT praise them enough.” HELEN J. RIPLEY, Brookline, Mass. 
“Last year I got a package of your Ever-blooming Hollyhock seed from which 
the plants commenced blooming the 4th of July and are blooming yet (January 13th); 
in fact, look as fresh and beautiful as when they first commenced. ” 
R. CHARLTON, Los Angeles, Cal. 
“ I am well pleased with your new Hollyhocks ; there are some unusually rich 
colors among them. I consider that they have two distinct advantages over the older 
types — flowering in about three months from seed, and freedom from disease.” 
WM. TURNER, Oceanic, N. J. 
Cultural Instructions for Henderson's Annual Ever^blooming Hollyhocks on every Packet 
