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EVERYTHING FOIR THE GAJRDEM «=. Flow©*- Seeds
DAHLIAS FROM SEED
It is not generally realized that most beautiful Dahlias may be grown and
flowered in late summer and autumn from spring-sown seed. Many of them,
differing from any of the named varieties on the market, and some from seed
are equally beautiful, the production of novel forms and combinations of color-
ings being most interesting. One of our customers, Mr. A.P.Updike, Reno.Nev.,
writes us thus: "By planting a packet of your choice Dahlia seed this spring,
I was successful in raising such beauties, that 1 secured the First Premium
— -a gold medal — 'at the Nevada State Fair, for the best display and greatest
variety of Dahlias." .See cut.)
CHOICE, Large- flowering, Double, Decorative and Show Varieties, Mixed, Pkt. 10c.
CACTUS-FLOWERED, Double, Mixed Colors. Saved from the choicest Cactus-
flowered varieties Pkt. 10c.
NEW GIANT-FLOWERING DECORATIVE DAHLIAS. This grand new race
produces flowers, often 7 to 8 inches in diameter, very double and in form inter-
mediate between the formal show Dahlias and thenarrowcurled-petalled Cactus
Dahlias — the grace and beauty of these Giant Decorative Dahlias being unap-
proachable. The flowers are borne on long, strong stems, and are in a variety
of colors Pkt. 25c.
20TH CENTURY. Immense single flowers, 4 to 6 inches across, white, marked
carmine and pink; very handsome Pkt. 10c.
GIANT PERFECTION, Mixed. Immense single flowers of various colors, includ-
ing many beautifully striped and spotted sorts Pkt. 10c.
COLLERETTE, Mixed Colors. Flowers of various. colors, adorned with a collar
of small petals around the center, novel and beautiful Pkt. 15c.
COLOSSAL. A French race producing flowers that attain the extraordinary
dimensions of 8 to 9 inches in diameter. The flowers are composed of three
or more whorls of wide overlapping petals — placed one above the other. The
stems are long and rigid, bearing the flowers well above the foliage; the
colors are rich and varied Pkt. 15c.
DELPHINIUM or HAKDY LAKKSPUK
GIANT DOUBLE HYBRIDS. A splendid race of these popular hardy garden plants. The
blossoms are of immense size, semi-double and perfectly double, dressing the graceful,
towering spikes for from 2 to 5 feet of their length. The colors range from white and
lavender through every shade of blue from azure to indigo and purple, several shades
being blended in some of the varieties. The plants grow from 6 to 10 feet in height.
By cutting off the spikes immediately after flowering, these Delphiniums may be had in
bloom for several months. (See cut.) Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c.
HYBRIDUM NANUM. A semi-dwarf single-flowering type, each plant producing several
well-furnished spikes, 3 to 3)4 feet in height. The flowers are very large and continue
. long in bloom; colors vary from light celestial to deepest indigo. If sown early they
will flower the first season , Pkt . 15c.
ZALIL. (Hardy Yellow Larkspur.) Produces freely long spikes of 40 to 50 sulphur-
yellow blossoms, each 1 inch in diameter, flowering from June until August, plant thrifty
and bushy; 3 to 4 feet Pkt. 10c.
HYBRIDUM BELLADONNA FANNY STORMONTH. (Sterling novelty.) A greatly
improved variety of. the "Belladonna" Larkspur; it retains the early and continuous
blooming habit and the light azure-blue color but the flowers are much larger, of better
substance and the stems are from 5 to 7 feet high, the upper 2 to 3 feet form a huge
branching raceme of fine, well-placed flowers. There is nothing like it amongst all the
hundreds of new hybrids Pkt. 25c.
Formosum, Deep blue, white center; 2 to 3 feet 5c.
Single, Fine Mixed Colors 5c.
HARDY DIANTHUS grass or spice pinks
.See illustrations on the next page.)
DWARF LARGE DOUBLE-FLOWERING GRASS OR SPICE PINKS. .Dianthus
plumarius nanus, fl. pi.) These are great improvements over the charming time-honored
inhabitant of old fashioned gardens. The flowers are large and borne profusely on
short, stiff stems. In these new Pinks we have a large variety of colors and markings;
the color, of course, refers to the center of the flower, the remainder being white or
blush with a band of color near the margin; the colors include blood-red, rose, maroon,
purple, pink, blush, spotted, laced, variegated, etc. They are excellent perennial garden
plants, about 1 foot high, vigorous, hardy, and flower profusely during spring and early
summer. The flowers are very large, double, beautifully fringed, and emit a clove-like
perfume. Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c.
PERFECTION PINKS. A superb strain of the hardy Grass Pink— Dianthus plumarius
— bearing enormous double flowers of perfect form. Smooth round petals of pure white,
edged with deep crimson, very fragrant Pkt. 15c.
CROWN "GRASS" PINKS. A new race with branching 'flower stalks 10 to 12 inches
high, carrying large deliciously fragrant single, and semi-double flowers with fringed
petals; colors, white, carmine, rose, lilac, etc. Each flower marked in the center with a
crimson or purple crown. They flower from May to July Pkt. 15c.
MAIDEN PINKS. This pretty type of hardy Pinks — -Dianthus deltoides — forms low mats
of Grass-like foliage about 3 inches high, above which is thrown during spring and early
summer a profusion of. small single flowers not over % of an inch in diameter on stems
6 to' 8 inches in length. Colors red, rose and white, all adorned with a central zone
of crimson Pkt. 10c.
PLUMARIUS, Double Mixed. The favorite old Pheasant's-Eye or Grass Pinks; lfoot. . . .10c.
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founded by
Peter Henderson in 1847
is carried on
by his son
Charles Henderson
and his
grandsons