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HENDEKSON’S EVER-BLOOMING 
Annual HOLLYHOCK 
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 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 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. 
The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many delight¬ 
ful surprises. Some plants produce densely double flowers without guards, 
others with guard petals; there are semi-doubles with Anemone-flowered 
centres, 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 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, 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 centre 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 cut.) 
Price of Seed - Henderson's Eve Ann°u^T‘ n8 Hollyhock 
Grand Combination Mixture of doubles and semi-doubles, including all 
colors, shades and variegations. Per Pkt. (about 50 seeds), 15c. Per 500 
seeds $1.00. 
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 biennials 5 to 8 feet high. 
The seed we offer has been saved from an unrivaled collection. 
Double Blush. Pkt. 
10g. 
Double Black. 
_ Pkt. 10c. 
“ Canary-yellow ... 
10c. 
n 
Maroon. 
. 10c. 
“ Crimson. 
10c. 
tt 
Pink. 
. 10c. 
“ Deep Rose. 
10c. 
it 
Purple. 
. 10c. 
“ Lavender. 
10c. 
it 
White. 
. 10c. 
“ Light Apricot. 
10c. 
tt 
“ Violet Centre .. 10c. 
Extra Choice Double Mixed. 
1,000 seeds, 75c. 
From 
named 
varieties. 
. Pkt. 10c. 
IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of 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. 
/ .000 seeds, 60c 
Henderson's Ever-Blooming Annual Hollyhock 
Grand Old English HOLLYHOCK, "Golden Glory" 
This splendid variety produces immense double golden yellow flowers in 
handsome spikes 6 to 8 feet high. It is of healthy, robust growth having tough, 
dark green leaves and has proven immune to Hollyhock diseases. Pkt. 25c. 
HIBISCUS 
Africanus. A robust garden annual, 2 feet high, with saucer-shaped flowers, 
cream color with purple eye. Pkt. 5c. 
Hibiscus, Hardy Varieties (Marsh Mallows). These are showy hardy plants, 
forming bushes about 3 feet high, bearing immense bowl-like flowers often 
6 inches across. 
Rose-pink with white base, Pkt. 10c. GiantYellow. Yellow, garnet throat, Pkt. 10c. 
HUMULUS or JAPAN HOP 
Rapid summer climber, in three or four weeks’ time attaining a height of 20 
to 30 feet, resembling the commop Hop, but being an annual, attains full per¬ 
fection the first season. The foliage is luxuriant, making a dense covering. It 
is one of the best plants for covering verandas, trellises, etc. Heat, drought 
and insects do not trouble it.. Pkt. 5c. 
Silver Striped Japan Hop. A beautiful variety of the above. Green leaves 
blotched and striped white and gray. (See cut.) . Pkt. 10c. 
IMPATIENS 
Handsome plants from East Africa, forming bushes 6 to 8 inches high. The 
flowers, 134 to \% inch.es across, are of scarlet, orange-red, pink and white 
with a red eye. The plants grow luxuriantly out-of-doors and form effective 
and unusually showy flower beds by their great abundance of bloom. If grown 
in pots they are equally effective. Sown in heat in March the seedlings may be 
planted out end ot May and will be continuously in bigbih from June until the 
frost destroys them. ... 
Holstii Nana. Mixed Colors...... .L. . Pkt. 25c. 
p^rro 11 £ J FOK INDEX OF FLOWER SEEDS, THEIR. COMMON NAMES AND | 
1 1,0 l AID TO SELECTION FOP. VARIOUS PURPOSES AND SITUATIONS f 
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