DAHLIAS FROM SEED 
It is not generally realized that most beautiful Dahlias may be grown and 
flowered in late summer and autumn from spring-sown seed. Many of them, 
differing from any of the named varieties on the market, and some from seed 
are equally beautiful, the production of novel forms and combinations of color¬ 
ings being most interesting. One of our customers, Mr. A. P. Updike, Reno,Nev., 
writes us thus: “By planting a packet of your choice Dahlia seed this spring. 
I was successful in raising such beauties, that I secured the First Premium 
_a gold medal—'at the Nevada State Fair, for the best display and greatest 
variety of Dahlias.” {See cul.) 
CHOICE, Large-flowering, Double, Decorative and Show Varieties, Mixed, Pki.\0c. 
CACTUS-FLOWERED, Double, Mixed Colors. Saved from the choicest Cactus- 
flowered varieties . Pkt. 10c. 
NEW GIANT-FLOWERING DECORATIVE DAHLIAS. This grand new 
French race produces immense flowers, often 7 to 8 inches in diameter, very 
double and in form intermediate between the formal show Dahlias and the 
narrow curled-petalled Cactus Dahlias—the grace and beauty of these Giant 
Decorative Dahlias being unapproachable. The flowers are borne on long, 
strong stems, and are in a variety of colors—the seed having been saved 
from a prize collection of named varieties. Pkt. 25c. 
20TH CENTURY. Immense single flowers, 4 to 6 inches across, white, marked 
carmine and pink; very handsome.. Pkt. lOc. 
GIANT PERFECTION, Mixed. Immense single flowers of various colors, includ¬ 
ing many beautifully striped and spotted sorts. Pkt. 10c. 
COLLERETTE, Mixed Colors. Flowers of various colors, adorned with a collar 
of small petals around the center, novel and beautiful. l^kt. 15c. 
COLOSSAL. A French race producing flowers that attain the extraordinary 
dimensions of 8 to 9 inches in diameter. The flowers are composed of three 
or more whorls of wide overlapping petals—placed one above the other. The 
stems are long and ri^dd, bearing the flowers well above the foliage; the 
colors are rich and varied. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM or HAKDY LARKSPUR 
GIANT DOUBLE HYBRIDS. A splendid race of these popular hardy garden plants. The 
blossoms are of immense size, semi-double and perfectly double, dressing the graceful, 
towering spikes for from 2 to 5 feet of their length. The colors range from white and 
lavender through every shade of blue from azure to indigo and purple, several shades 
being blended in some of the varieties. The plants grow from 6 to 10 feet in height. 
By cutting off the spikes immediately after flowering, these Delphiniums may be had in 
bloom for several months. (See cut.) Mixed Colors . Pkt. 25c. 
HYBRIDUM NANUM. A semi-dwarf single-flowering type, each plant producing several 
well-furnished spikes, 3 to 314 feet in height. The flowers are very large and continue 
long in bloom; colors vary from light celestial to deepest indigo. If sown early they 
will flower the first season . Pkt. 15c. 
FORMOSA GIANT. This beautiful hardy Larkspur grows about 3\i feet high — bearing from 
June to October, long spikes of velvety, indigo-bluc flowers of giant size, nearly 2 
inches across ... Pkt. 15c. 
ZALIL. cHardy Yellow Larkspur.) Produces freely long spikes of 40 to 50 sulphur- 
yellow blossoms, each 1 inch in diameter, flowering from June until August, plant thrifty 
and bushy; 3 to 4 feet . Pkt. 10c. 
HYBRIDUM BELLADONNA FANNY STORMONTH. (Sterling novelty.) A greatly 
improved variety of the “Belladonna" Larkspur; it retains the early and continuous 
blooming habit and the light azure-blue color but the flowers arc much larger, of better 
substance and the stems are from 5 to 7 feet high, the upper 2 to 3 feet form a. huge 
branching raceme of fine, well-placed flowers. There is nothing like it amongst all the 
hundreds of new hybrids. Pkt. 25c. 
Formosum. Deep blue, white center; 2 to 3 feet.5c. 
Single, Fine Mixed Colors.5c. 
HARDY DIANTHUS ass or spice pjm_s 
(See illustrations on the next page.) 
DWARF LARGE DOUBLE-FLOWERING GRASS OR SPICE PINKS. ,(Diaftthus 
plumariiis nanus, Jl. pi.) These are great improvements over the charming time-honored 
inhabitant of old fashioned gardens. The flowers are large and borne profusely on 
short, stiff stems. In these new Pinks wc have a large variety of colors and markings; 
the color, of course, refers to the center of the flower, the remainder being white or 
blush with a band of color near the margin; the colors include blood-rcd, rose, maroon, 
purple, pink, blush, spotted, laced, variegated, etc. They are excellent perennial garden 
plants; about 1 foot high, vigorous, hardy, and flower i>rofusely during st>nng and early 
summer. The flowers are very large, double, beautifully fringed, and emit a clove-likc 
■ i^crfiimc. Mixed Colors . Pkt. 25c. 
PERFECTION PINKS. A superb strain of the hardy Grass Pink — Diaulhus pluvuirius 
-rbearing enormous double flowers of perfect form. Smooth round petals of pure w'hile, 
edged with .deep crimson, very fragrant .. . Pkt. 15c. 
CROWN “GRASS” PINKS. A new race with branching flower stalks 10 t9 12 inches 
high, carrying large deliciously fragrant single, and semi-double flowers with fringed 
petals; colors, white, carmine, rose, lilac, etc. Each flower marked in the center with a 
crimson or purple crown. They flower from May to July. Pkt. 15c. 
MAIDEN PINKS. This pretty type of hardy Pinks—Dianthus deltoides — forms low mats 
of Grass-like foliage about 3 inches high, above which is thrown during spring and early 
summer a profusion of small single flowers not over ^ of an inch in diameter on stems 
dito 8 inches in length. Colors red, rose and white, all adorned with a central zone 
of crimson. . x 19^'* 
PLUM ARIUS, Double Mixed, The favorite old Pheasant’s-Eyeor Grass Pinks; Ifoot... .10c. 
HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS us direct to our customers; they are not sold in stores 
