SIBERIAN EDELWEISS. 
This beautiful ’‘Everlasting” is a hardy perennial growing about one foot 
in height being larger than the famous Alpine Edelweiss. The star shaped 
wooly white flowers being fully as large again. It also thrives 
better under cultivation and in low latitudes than the alpine 
type Especially suited for rock gardens and hillsides. Pkt. 15c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIAS. 
Eschscholtzias (California Poppies) are among our most 
beautiful and popular annuals, being of the easiest cul¬ 
ture. From spring-sown seeds they flower profusely until 
late in the autumn, making them invaluable for bedding. 
The plants are of dwarf branching habit about 1 
foot high. 
Golden West. Flowers of immense size, often 4 inches 
in diameter. The colors are intense and shining yellows* 
In some an orange blotch almost suffuses the whole 
flower, in others it. runs into the yellow in fine penciled 
lines, others again have an orange centre with a margin 
of clear yellow . Pkt. 10c. 
The Mikado. This new “California Poppy” produces 
large saucer-shaped flowers of a lustrous orange-crim¬ 
son. It received an award of merit from the English 
Royal Horticultural Society . Pkt. 25c. 
Crimson King. The best of the red flowering varieties. 
Flowers about 3 inches across; exterior bright crimson, 
interior rich satiny carmine; plant bushy and compact, 
about 1 foot high by 15 inches across. It flowers freely 
and continuously during the summer . Pkt. 10c. 
Dainty Queen. Of compact-growth with flowers of creamy 
blush tinted coral-pink, deepening in shade towards the 
edges . Pkt. 10c. 
Erecta Compacts Mandarin. In this charming new va¬ 
riety we have an entirely new habit in Eschscholtzias. The 
plants are of upright, compact, bushy form, producing freely 
large flowers of rich, deep orange color, shaded crimson. Pkt. 10c. 
BUSH ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 
( II unnemannia fumaricefolia.) 
Grows into a bush 2 feet high, with the beautiful foliage of the 
Eschscholtzia enlarged. Large cup-shaped flowers, 3 inches across, 
on stems 12 inches long; the color is of clear bright yellow, con¬ 
trasting vividly with the bunch of golden stamens in the centre; the 
petals are broad, overlapping and crinkled like crushed yellow 
satin. Plants, from seed sown early, commence to bloom in July 
and continue to flower for months . Pkt. 10c. 
GIANT S Y D GAILLARD1AS. 
The flowers are extraordinarily large, often 4 to 5 inches across, and very highly 
colored in great diversity of variations and blendings, including such combinations as 
scarlet with gold edge, blood-red with yellow edge, yellow with orange disk, golden 
with scarlet border, pure yellow, fiery-crimson and many others. These magnificent 
Gaillardias are hardy perennials, compact in growth and produce a constant succession 
of flowers summer and fall; grown in large groups they are gorgeously effective. 
As cut flowers they are almost unrivaled; the brilliant flowers, on long stems, “vase” 
handsomely, and last in water for days. 
Giant Hardy Hybrid Gaillardia, Mixed Colors. Pkt 10c 
GERBERA A JS S HYBRIDS. 
Gerbera Jamesoni The Scarlet “Transvaal Daisy” has for a decade been a popular 
plant for greenhouse culture, producing in perpetual succession throughout the year 
and for several years, large, gracefully petalled, marguerite-like flowers, 4 inches 
across, of vivid orange-scarlet on stout stems 12 to 18 inches in length. 
1 hese new hybrids created in France by Mon. Adnet were the sensation of the 
European floral world the past season, receiving great distinction wherever exhibited, 
including highest awards at the Paris, Berlin and London flower shows 
These Gerbera hybrids possess the characteristics of the parents (G. Jamesoni x G. 
Xividiflora ) with added merits; they are hardier, make showy specimens in pots, 
flowering profuseiy in any window or conservatory where carnations or geraniums 
thrive and they even luxuriate in the garden during summer in warm, sunny positions 
where they will produce a wealth of bloom from June to September. 
I he colors include a galaxy of incomparable delicacy and richness, in which an infinity 
ot tints, trom pure white through yellow, orange, salmon, rose, cerise and ruby-red to 
violet are represented. Sometimes the coloring of the disk differs from that of the 
rays, these superbly beautiful, large, long-stemmed flowers are unsurpassed when 
cut for bouquets and other artistic decorations, being of splendid substance, they main- 
^ ai T, t “ eir freshness for days and if the stems are in water they last for two weeks. 
1 hey are easily grown from seed—and although half-hardy perennials, will commence 
blooming the first season, the older plants will of course produce the greatest abun¬ 
dance of bloom, therefore for garden culture the plants may be wintered over safely 
in a coldframe with pansies, bellis, etc. 
Full instructions for growing from seed — and after cultivation with every packet Pkt. 50c. 
GERBERA NEW GIANT SCARLET. 
An American improvement of the Scarlet Transvaal Daisy-Gerbera Jamesoni, the 
flowers half as large again, measuring 5 to 6 inches across and are borne in continuous 
abundance on stems 2 to 3 feet in length: color intense scarlet, grand for cutting. 
Cultural instructions with every packet. . . .. Pkt. 30c. 
Henderson's Superior Seeds su P piied on by us direct to our customers; they are not sold in stores. 
