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Spooial Notice of our New Departure in offering 
ONLY THE, CREAM OF THE, SWEET PEAS. 
There are too many so-called varieties of Sweet Peas offered to the 
public. Many of them are alike, or so nearly so that experts can scarcely 
distinguish them apart. The list of over one hundred varieties is being 
added to at the rate of a dozen or moreannually ,and we feel that 
itis time to commence culling out the older varieties that have 
been improved upon, the newer sorts that have reverted back or 
are not improvements, and the sorts that have been offered under 
different names by different firms, which we have proved at our 
trial grounds to be the same thing. There are, of course, many 
excellent sorts in our discarded list, but a counterpart or an im¬ 
provement has in all cases been retained. 
DOUBLE SWEET PEAS. 
The flowers of these do not all come 
double, but usually produce from 20 to 40 
porcent. of double blossoms. In some uncon¬ 
genial localities or situations they have proved 
very inconstant, producing no double flowers 
at all, but in such cases they make up for the de¬ 
ficiency in doubles by producing in greatest pro¬ 
fusion large single flowers of beautiful colors. 
Only with this understanding with purchasers 
do we supply the seeds. Such flowers as do 
come double are of Incomparable beauty. 
Sometimes they will all come double on one 
stem, sometimes all single, but generally 
doubles and singles are borne about half-and- 
half oil each stem. />f. t ()y 
Double Apple Blossom. Rose and 
blush. 5 10 
Double Boreatton. Peep maroon. 5 10 
Double Butterfly. White, lavender 
and blue. 5 10 
Double Captain of the Blues. 
blue and purple. 5 10 
Double Duke of Clarence. Plum 
eland. 5 10 
Double Lottie Eckford. White and 
mauve. 5 10 
Double Splendor. Rosy crimson.. 5 10 
Double Senator. Striped blue, white 
and chocolate. f> 10 
Double White. Pure white. 5 10 
Double Bride of Niagara. r> 10 
Double Mixed Colors. 5 10 
Collection of Double Sweet Peas. 
1 packet each of the above 10 varieties, 40c. 
Henderson’s Mixed New Giant Hybrid Sweet 
Peas, mixed by ourselves; exclusively from the recent 
novelties of both Eckford’s and American varieties, in- 
cludlng many unnamed new hybrids of remark able beaut v, 
size, form and sweetness, among which will be found new 
shades of rosy orange, chamois, pearly pink, straw, sil¬ 
very lilac, blood-red, cerise, blush; others edged, blended, 
mottled, speckled, flaked, striped, etc. This Is absolutely 
the finest, mixture that can be made, and is sure to give 
our Sweet Pea loving customers many delightful surprises 
as the new colors and shades unfold. Price of Blender- 
son’s Mixed New Giant Hybrid Sweet Peas : 1 ()c. 
per large packet (about 100 seeds) ; 20c. per oz. (000 to 400 
seeds); 40c. per Yi lb.; £1.00 lb., delivered freeinU.S. 
Henderson’s Mixed Sweet Peas, nil bright col ore, in 
proper proportions mixed from 80 standard varieties se¬ 
lected from our “Creamof the Named Sweet Peas” offered 
on next page, including both American and Eckford’s vari¬ 
eties. A row of our Mixed Sweet Peas in bloom is bright 
and varied in coloring and particularly pleasing, and 
vastly superior to many mixtures sent out, which are too 
often madeup from the surplusof varietiesthatliaveaccu- 
mulated on account of their undesirability. Some of the 
Mixed Sweet Pens, as sent out, in our competitive trials, 
proved to be 90 per cent, dull blue and purples. Price 
of Henderson’s Mixed Sweet Peas : 5c. per large 
packet (about 100 seeds) ; 10c. per oz. (300 to 400seeds); 
20c. per Vs lb.; 50c. lb., delivered free In U. S. 
OUR LIST OF DISCARDED SWEET REAS, 
WITH THE SUPPLANTING VARIETY WE RECOMMEND AS BEING SIMILAR AND SUPERIOR. 
DISCARDED. SELECT IX PLACE. 
Adonis.No. 81 
A1 ba Magniflea.No. 65 
American Belle.No. 3 
Apple Blossom.No. 113 
Black brown striped.No. 11? 
Blushing Beauty.No. ?1 
Blushing Bride.No. 9 
Blue Bell.No. 21 
Boreatton.No. 6 or 121 
Brilliant....No. si 
Britannia.No. 21 
Bronze Prince.No. S5 
California.No. 33 or 71 
Captain Clark.No. 77 
Captain Sharkey.No. 69 
Cardinal.No. 69 
Carmen Sylva.No. 45 
Coronet.No. t 
Cottage Maid.No. 97 
Creole.No. 63 
Crown Princess of Prus¬ 
sia.No. 33 
Pawn.No. f>5 
Delight.No. 66 or 118 
Dolly Varden.No. 53 
Dueness of Edinburg_No. 67 
Duke of Clarence.No. 85 
DISC A RDEI). SELECT 1X PLACE. 
Duke of York. 
41 
Duchess of York. 
107 
Eliza Eckford. 
9? 
Emily Lynch. 
.. .No. 
41 
Empress of India. 
... No. 
9 
Etna . 
... No. 
45 
Fairy Queen. 
...No. 
118 
F isher's Snowflake_ 
.. .No. 
55 
Forty Niner. 
... No. 
63 
Gaiety. 
89 
Golden Gate. 
T? 
Grace May. 
...No. 
65 
Grand Blue. 
... No. 
21 
Harvard. 
69 
Ignea. 
... No. 
81 
Imperial Blue. 
21 
Indigo King. 
85 
Invincible Carmine... 
59 
Invincible Scarlet... 
... No. 
59 
Invincible Striped_ 
.. .No. 
89 
Isa F'.ekford. 
97 
Lady Beaconsfleld.... 
... No. 
105 
Lady Nina Balfour.. . 
... No. 
25 
Lemon Queen.No. 
105 or 
118 
Light Gaiety. 
... No. 
107 
Little Dorrit. 
... No. 
41 
Light blue and purple 
.. .No. 
21 
DISCARDED. SELECT IN PIACK 
Madam Carnot.No. 21 
Mauve Queen.No. 63 
Meteor.No. 36 or 96 
Minnehaha.No. 89 
Minnie Keepers.No. 29 
Miss Hunt. No. 67 
Mrs. Gladstone.No. 71 
Mrs. Sankey.No. 7 or 114 
Mrs. S. T. Walker.No. 86 
Nelly Jaynes.No. 9 
Nita.No. 130 
Novelty.No. 67 or 100 
Oddity.No. 8t 
Orange Prince.No. 36 
Ovid . No. 81 
Painted Lady. No. 9 
Primrose.No. 63 or 8? 
Prince Edward of York.No. 67 
Prince of Wales.No. 28 
Princess Beatrice.No. 71 
Princess Louise.No. 45 
Princess May.No. 25 
Princess Victoria.No. 67 
Purple brown striped_No. 117 
Purple striped white_No. ins 
~ “ & . 
Purple black 
i .No. 85 
SELECT IX PLACE. 
Purple Prince. 
...No. 
85 
Queen of F^ngland. 
. No. 
Queen of the Isles. 
..No. 
3 
Red striped white. 
. .No. 
3 
Rising Sun.No. 
35 or 
75 
Royal Robe. 
.. No. 
9tf 
Salopian. 
. .No. 
67 
Scarlet Invincible. 
. .No. 
59 
Shazada. 
. .No. 
85 
Splendid Lilac. 
. .No. 
77 
Splendour . 
.. No. 
67 
Striped red and white. 
..No. 
3 
Striped Captivation.No. 13( 
Striped Celestial.No. 
Striped Penzance. 
Striped Stanley. 
..No. ! 
..No. Ill 
..No. 13i 
Sultan. 
86 
The Bride. 
.No. 
The Queen. 
.No. 
53 
Triumph. 
.No. 
113 
Vesuvius. 
45 
Violet Queen. 
45 
Waverly. 
23 
White. 
White Eagle. 
55 
I An ounce of Sweet Pens contninK from 
300 to 100 seeds, enough in 
single row 25 feet long. Onr puiLcts 
of nil (excepting the Novellles) nre 
liberal, conlnlning nhout 75 seeiln, 
enough to sow u single row 0 feet long. 
Our packets 
of Named 
Street Peas 
(noveltie* ex¬ 
cept a I) con¬ 
tain about 
78 seeds, 
enough to how 
a single roio 
6 feet long. 
I SWEET PEAS. 
Beautiful in their modest loveliness, perfection in form, graceful in arrangement, delightful in 
perfume, exquisite in coloring, lavish in bloom, unequaled for cutting, bright and showy in the 
garden, of the easiest culture, succeeding with everybody, in short, irresistible in their wealth of 
charms. If the primitive varieties were such fragrant favoritiesin the old-fashioned garden, is it 
to be wondered at, with the wonderfully improved sorts of the preseut time, with increased size, 
better shape, greater quantity of bloom, with three or four flowers borne on astern, and with 
lovely new colors, that Sweet PenH are now enjoying unprecedented popularity? Bushy 
climbers, 4 to G feet high, flowering through summer and autumn from seed sown in the spring. 
