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•FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES 
HENDERSON’S EVER-BLOOMING 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR 
Annual Hollyhocks. 
Every Garden may now be Glorified with Queenly 
Hollyhocks Grown as Easily and Flowering as 
Quickly from Seed as anv 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 the Hol¬ 
lyhock to those willing to give the 
young plants special winter care. 
All of this bother is obviated in 
growing our new hybrid Hollyhocks, 
for the flower the first season from 
seed, which may be started in the 
house or hot bed from February 
to April, or be sown in the open 
ground in May. 
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 develop¬ 
ing 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. Open 
flowers sometimes encircle the spikes 
compactly —veritable columns of 
bloom—but usually the flowers ex¬ 
pand in irregular groups, wherever 
the buds arc strongest, in a charm¬ 
ingly informal fashion. 
The diversity of forms and colors 
among the flowers affords many 
delightful surprises. Some plants 
produce densely double flowers; 
others semi-doubles, then single 
sorts with small double centers, and 
single saucer-shaped flowers; 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 com¬ 
binations. There are maroon, black, 
pink, chamois-rose, apricot with gar¬ 
net throat, crimson, canary-yellow, 
cerise, white, 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 center 
spike attains a height of from 8 to 
10 feet, after which, the side shoots 
from the base commence to length¬ 
en, growing candelabra-like, 3 to 5 
feet long. 
Double Hardy Hollyhocks 
Received the Highest Award at the 
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 
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 special culture and 
hybridization, as to be revelationsof 
gorgeous beauty 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 
“ Canary-yellow. io 
“ Crimson.io 
44 Deep Rose. .10 
“ Lavender.m 
44 Light Apricot.io 
44 Maroon. in 
“ Pink. !i 0 
“ Purple.io 
‘‘ Salmon.io 
44 White. no 
“ 44 Violet Center. .10 
Extra Choice Double Mixed. 
From named varieties, 1,000 seeds, 
50c. Pkt. .10 
IMPORTED COLLECTIONS of 
Double Hardy Hollyhocks. 
6 Separate colors.40 
12 Separate colors.75 
The Hollyhocks from you last 
season were much superior to any 
ever seen here by any one. I have 
never seen such magnificent Holly¬ 
hocks either North or South.”* 
W. II. CHADBOURN, 
Wilmington , N. C. 
Hollyhock, 
FRENCH GIANT. 
An improved French race, produc¬ 
ing grand, tall spikes completely 
encircled with magnificent flowers 
of unusual size; several shades and 
colors in mixture. Pkt. .20 
IMPATIENS 
HOLSTII 
.Hybrids. 
Handsome plants from East Afri¬ 
ca, forming bushes H to 2 feet high 
and resembling in habit, foliage and 
shape of flowers the popular Impa- 
tiens Suitanii, but surpassing the 
latter by far by its quicker and more 
vigorous growth and its much larger 
flowers and the greater quantity 
produced. The flowers, li to 12 
inches across, are of red, violet, 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 it will 
be a first-class plant. Sown on heat 
in March the seedlings may be 
planted out end of May and will be 
continuously in bloom from June 
until the frost destroys them. 
Mixed Colors. Pkt. .25 
Henderson's Ever-blooming Annual Hollyhock 
PRICE OF SEED 
Henderson's Ev ' An!Z? >ns Hollyhocks. 
Grand Combination Mixture of doubles, semi-doubles and singles, including 
all colors, shades and variegations. 
Per Pkt. (about r>o seeds), 15c.; Per 500 Seeds, $1.00. 
“/ have never known such fine Hollyhocks as came from your Ever-blooming 
kind, the seeds of which were planted in the open ground last April. They 
began to flower the last of July and I had six , eight or ten spikes on nearly every 
plant. One CANNOT praise them enough.” 
HELEN J. RIPLEY, Brookline, Mass. 
44 Last year I got a package of your Ever-blooming Hollyhock seed from which the 
plants cojnmenced blooming the 4th of July and are blooming yet (January 
13th); in fact, look as fresh and beautiful as when they first commenced.” 
R. CHARLTON, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Lathyrus Latifolius. 
(Hardy Everlasting Pea.) 
Hardy climbers, growing 6 to 8 feet high when trained on a trellis; the flow¬ 
ers are borne in large clusters. They are peculiarly adapted to rough places, 
to scramble over rocks and bushes; splendid cut flower. 
Lathyrus Latifolius. White. Pkt. .10 
44 4 4 Delicata. Rosy flesh color.10 
44 44 Red.'.10 
44 44 Mixed Colors.10 
44 44 White Pearl. A magnificent new pearl-white, ever¬ 
lasting pea, producing trusses of flowers twice as large as those of the type 
and in profuse succession from June to September.25 
Cultural Instructions for Henderson’s Annual Ever-blooming Hollyhocks on every Packet. 
