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LARGER AND MORE INTERESTING THAN EVER. 
HAT it is larger we know; that it is more interesting than usual we believe, from the great 
variety of new features that have been injected into it. As to this, however, our patrons will 
be the best judges. We do not purpose on this page to more than touch upon two or three of the 
more important features that characterize this edition; and before doing so we deem it only proper 
to thank most heartily our customers for their very liberal patronage of last season. It being our 
Golden Jubilee Anniversary we were naturally anxious that it should be the “blue ribbon” year of our 
fifty years’ business existence—and it was, in face of the general depressed condition of business 
prevailing in the spring of 1897. 
On the next page we give the principal reasons why, from this time forward, we will no 
longer supply our seeds to dealers to sell again; at the same time we would like it to be clearly 
understood that the orders of all consumers (or planters) sent us direct will be gladly welcomed, 
whether their orders be large or small. Among other reasons no longer having to protect a wholesale 
trade, we are enabled to sell and deliver free (with few exceptions) The Best Seeds in the World, 
at lower prices than ever, anywhere in the United States. We also call attention to our offer of over 
$1,000 in cash for names for novelties sent out this year under numbers; the plan will be found fully 
detailed on page 16. These are but two of the many novel features with which our Manual for ’98 
may be said to bristle; and we solicit not only your own orders, but your kind influence among 
your friends as well. 
<s_PETER HENDERSON & CO., 
ALFRED HENDERSON, President. 
CHARLES HENDERSON, Vice-Pres. and Treas. ~ 35 and 37 Cortlandt St., New York. 
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