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SEED SPECIALTIES 
Henderson’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 frecjnently 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 grow¬ 
ing 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 he sown in the open ground in May. 
The plants from early-.sown seed set out in May commence blooming 
in,Tilly, 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 devel¬ 
oping bud to the expanding flower; this characteristic accounts for 
the remarkably long flowering period, and, besides, the plants continu¬ 
ously push out siile branches as well as new spikes from tlie 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, wherever the 
buds are strongest, in a charmingly informal fashion. 
The diversity of forms and colors among the flowers affords many 
delightful surprises. Some i)lants produce densely double flowers 
without guards, others with guard petals; there are semi-doubles, then 
single sort.s with small double or anemone-flowered centers, and single 
saucer-shaped flowers; 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 wdth 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 branch¬ 
ing 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 
I)lants 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. 
Of cour.se, these Hollyhocks, making such luxuriant growth in such 
a .short time and blooming so abundantly, should be sustained for best 
and continuous results by planting them in deeply dug, thoroughly 
enriched soil; water liberally in dry weather. 
HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR 
t{oii2hocks 
received the highest award at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1803. 
Grand summer and autumn floivering 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, un<ler our special culture and hybridization, as 
to be revelations of gorgeous beaut.i' to those who have not seen these improved sorts. 
Hardy biennial. 5 to 8 feet high. The seed we offer has been saved from our unrivaled 
collection of choicest improved double varieties. 
Double 
Blush. 
...Pkt. .10 
Double 
Maroon. Pkt. 
.10 
“ 
Canary-Yellow. .. 
.10 
i 4 
Pink. 
.10 
“ 
Crimson . 
.10 
44 
Purple. 
.10 
Deep Rose. 
. 10 
(4 
Salmon. 
.10 
44 
Lavender. 
.10 
44 
White . 
.10 
44 
Light Apricot. . .. 
. 10 
44 
“ Violet Center. .. . 
.10 
44 
Black. 
. 10 
Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named varieties. UOOO seeds, 50c. ...Pkt. .10 
IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of Superior Double Hardy Hollyhocks. 
6 Separate colors.40c. 12 Separate colors.75c. 
*' 7'he Hollyhock seed I had of you two years ayo I planted in a large mound, and last 
summer they were just lovely and much admired bif all who saw them.” 
Mrs. I. T. BIIOWNKLL, Little Compton, R. I. 
"The Hollyhocks from you last season were much superior to any ei'er seen here by 
any one. I have never seen such magnificent Holluhocks either North or South.” 
ir. //. CHADBOURN, Wilmington, N. C. 
.PRICE OF SEED. 
Henderson^s Hollyhocks. 
Grand Combination Mixture of doubles, semi-doubles and singles, 
including all colors, shades and variegations. 
Per Pkt. (about 50 seeds), 15c.; Per 500 Seeds, $1.00. 
IN PRAISE OF HENDERSON’S EVER-BLOOMING 
ANNUAL HOLLYHOCKS: 
"The Kver-blooming Hollyhocks flowered practically all summer. 
You have in this new race one of the most desirable novelties sent out in 
2 /cars.” IIM/. N. CRAIG, Supt. Gardener, 
F. L. AMES' ESTATE, "Long Water Gardens," North Easton, Mass. 
" I have never known such fine Hollyhocks as came from your Ex'er- 
blooming kind, the seeds of which were planted in the open grourul last 
April. They began to flower the last of Jxily and 1 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 Ei'er-blooming Hollyhock seed from 
which the plants commenced blooming the 4th of July and are blooming 
yet (January ISth); in fact, look as fresh arid beautiful as when Otey 
first commenced." 
R. CHARLTON, Los Angeles, Cal. 
J)o(ibIe 
We furnish Complete Cultural Instructions for these Hollyhocks with every Packet of Seed. 
