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Title: Everything for the garden : 1906
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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s, of graceful,airy effect, and most deliciously fragrant. Thecolors are varied from gbstening white throughshades of red, from flesh-pink to crimson andthrough blues from silvery-lilac to royal-purple,some of them having centres of some distinctcolor, as violet with white centre, etc.; for bou-quets, vases, or as corsage flowers they are of ex-ceptional value. If cut scarcely opened they willlast for ten days in water. The plants are ofthe easiest culture, flowering freely in the gardenthe first summer from seed sown in the spring.They are of strong, bushy form, 2 to 3 feet high.(See cut.) Sweet Sultan Imperial, Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. Margarita;. Satiny-white flowers 10c. Chama:leon. Bright yellow flowers. ... 10c. Favorita. Brilliant rose-colored flowers 10c. Splendens. Rich dark purple 10c. Craziosa. Deep lilac 10c. lphigenia. Delicate mauve, with large white centre 10c. Gigantea. New gigantic pure whitesweet-scented flowers on long, strongstalks; plant grows 4 to 5 feet high. .25c
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variety of extremely rich colorsincluding blood-crimson, salmon,pink, white, cerise, etc.—manyhaving large white eyes, and allbeing deliciously sweet scented.(See cut.) Harlequin. Large flowers of sever-al colors are produced on thesame plant. _ Sometimes a headwill be all crimson, another allpink, another white, etc., butusually florets of different colorswill be borne in one head; veryunique and beautiful. Pkt. 10c.Hendersons Perfection. SingleLa ge Flowering, nixed. Extra choice 10c. Hendersons Perfection. Double,Large-Flowering, nixed. Extra choice 15c. Imported collection of 6 separatesorts, 25c. We deliver FREE A U. S. iMSStf or Freight s^ion. at Su/SptoS! all Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bulbsand Books otlx££U wherenoted. 108 FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES-

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