ALEC HENDERSON, INC 
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CHICAGO 
FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES OF MERIT FOR 1940 
PETUNIA CREAM STAR 
Ageratum 
Midget Blue 
After many years of selection, our grower has finally been able to 
offer a very fine dwarf (2 to 3 inches high) Ageratum with delicate 
fine foliage, which is practically smothered with small, true Agera¬ 
tum Blue flowers. 
Awarded a silver medal in this year's All-American trials, we feel 
sure that our customer will find in Midget Blue, the ideal bedding 
Ageratum. 
Tr. pkt. 50c Va oz. $1.75 Vi oz. $3.00 Oz. $10.00 
Larkspur—Giant Imperial 
Pink Perfection 
The plants are tall, basal branching, upright in habit and very free 
flowering. The color is a very luscious shade of lively light pink, 
similar to the Stock Flowered variety La France. Early flowering, 
Pink Perfection comes into bloom about the same time as the Stock 
Flowered variety, Rosamond. Ideal as a florist color, Pink Perfection 
is also a magnificent addition to the home garden. 
Rosalind 
A new color in Larkspur, rose with just enough suffusion of salmon 
to create a most pleasing new shade of rose pink. True base branch¬ 
ing in habit with a center spike four to five feet tall and from six to 
eight side branches three to four feet long, all emanating from the 
base. The spikes are wiry and the blooms practically non-shattering, 
a quality so essential for cutting or shipping. 
Each of the above: Trade pkt., $0.50: Vi oz., $0.75; Oz. $2.50 
Marigold Gigantea 
Full Double Orange 
The color is a deep rich, lively orange which combined with the un¬ 
usual size of the flowers makes this new Full Double Orange one of 
the showiest and most colorful of garden subjects. Although the 
foliage carries the characteristic Marigold odor, the flowers them¬ 
selves are delicately sweet scented. Even though of extreme size 
(averaging 5 inches and over in diameter), the flowers are loosely 
formed, very full centered with broad, heavy, wavy petals which 
gracefully overlap and make a flower ideal for cut flower use. The 
plants are strong growing, upright branching in habit, somewhat 
dwarfer than the older variety Orange Sunset, usually 21/2 to 3 feet 
tall, and producing a heavy growth of foliage with six or eight heavy 
branches each bearing three or four large flowers. 
Trade pkt. $0.50 Vi oz. $1.50 Oz. $5.00 
Marigold—Winter Harmony 
Marigold Winter Harmony is an entirely new type for winter flower¬ 
ing in the greenhouse. It is of the quilled scabious type with a single 
row of reddish brown guard petals, encircling a golden orange 
quilled center—with mahogany brown dots on the tip of each quilled 
petal. 
It makes a uniform growth of three feet in the field and produces 
100% double 2 Vi-inch flowers. 
Trade pkt. $0.35 Vi oz. $0.75 Oz. $2.25 
Petunia Hybrida Nana Compacta 
Cream Star 
(See Illustration) 
New Dwarf Bedding Petunia. Entirely distinct in both color and form 
of flowers. Awarded a silver medal in the All-American trials this 
year. 
Plants have the ideal dwarf, bushy habit of the nana compacta 
group. When full grown, they are 12 in. high and 14 in. across, 
neatly rounded and completely covered with flowers over the sides 
and top. 
Flowers grow 2Vi in. across and are shaped like a five-pointed star; 
soft creamy white deepening towards the throat to a bright golden 
yellow. The color of the flowers, together with the compact habit of 
the plants and their profusion of blooms, makes Cream Star Petunia 
ideally suited for low beds, borders and edgings. 
Trade pkt. $0.25 Four pkts. $0.90 
Petunia Hybrida Nana Compacta 
Glow 
Awarded a silver medal in this year's All-American trials, Petunia 
Glow is a combination of dazzling Carmine Red color with dwarf 
bush growth. Individual flowers measure more than 2 Vs in. across 
and are borne in great profusion. Especially valuable for pot and 
bedding purposes. 
Trade pkt. 75c 3*2 oz. $2.50 ur oz. $4.50 
Stocks Double Giant 
Column Gardenia 
With superbly formed, magnifi¬ 
cent spikes composed of individ¬ 
ual florets 2 in. to 2Vi in. in 
diameter, this remarkable new 
Giant Column Stock is indeed the 
last word in perfection. Shim¬ 
mering, glistening white, the 
flowers are the purest snow 
white of any Stock variety yet 
introduced. Producing only one 
flower spike to a plant this spike 
will, however, be of enormous 
size, 12 in. to 15 in. of florets and 
nearly 3 feet in length, and 4 in. 
or even AVz in. in depth, with 
the individual florets closely and 
compactly placed on the stem. 
The robust habit and uniformity 
of type combined with a high 
percentage of doubles places 
Gardenia definitely in a class by 
itself with no peer among the 
finer flowers for the high class 
florist trade. 
Trade packet . $1.25 
Vi oz. 4.50 
Va oz. 2.50 
Oz. 15.00 COLUMN STOCK GARDENIA 
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