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TO NURSERYMEN, FLORISTS, OR SUCH AS WISH TO 

 PURCHASE IN QUANTITY. 



We beg to say to such, that during the months of January, February, March and 

 April, we generally have a surplus of many articles that, to make room, we sell at priced 

 much lower than quoted in this catalogue. For example : Fuchsias, Geraniums, Helio- 

 tropes, &c, &c, that in these months we would gladly sell at $8, or $10 per hundred, 

 the same plants are freely sold for two or three times the amount in May. Such plants 

 are all grown in two or three inch pots. In packing they are removed fiom the |»>ts, 

 which is not only a saving of half the cost of expressage to the buyer, but plants thus 

 packed always carry safer than when packed in pots. When received they should he 

 potted in a size larger than what they have been grown in, the centre shoot stopped, if 

 it has not been already done. The plants placed either in a hot-bed or green-house, 

 should have as much light and air as practicable, and watered freely as soon as they 

 begin to grow strongly. The least amount sold from " surplus stock" list is $10. 



Another point, too often neglected, is fumigating by tobacco smoke, to dentroy the 

 aphis, or green fly. This should be done never less than once a week. We ourselves do 

 so twice each week throughout the entire year in all our glass structures, so thac rarely 

 an insect is seen. 



These remarks, of course, we know to be unnecessary with men who have had ex- 

 perience in green-house management, but the great mass of our customers have not 

 had that advantage, and it is to them these hints are given. 



Any oue having this Catalogue, and desirous of receiving our lists of " surplus 

 stock" of plants, or our Trade List of seeds, which will be issued on the 15th of January, 

 February and March, by notifying us, will have them sent without charge. Address, 



PETER HENDERSON, 



35 Cortlandt St., New York. 



PACKING AND SHIPPING 



Is done in the best manner, without charge, on all bills amounting to $J0 and up- 

 wards. By our system of packing we send plants to every section of the country, at 

 all seasons. In Winter providing against frost by close boxes ; in Spring and Summer, by 

 packing the plants in open boxes and baskets, thus avoiding the opposite danger of 

 injury by heating. It is rarely that any plant fails to arrive in good order ; but to 

 provide against the possibility of loss to our customers in this way, we are always 

 liberal in count of the articles sent. , Those of our amateur patrons who have no green- 

 house, and prefer to purchase before the season of setting the plants in the open ground, 

 should be careful to put the plants when they receive them in pots only one size larger 

 than that they have been in ; thus those which have been growing in pots two inches 

 in diameter, should be put in three inch, and so on. The plants should be kept cool, 

 but not to freeze, and exposed to the light as much as possible. 



NOTICE OP SEED BUSINESS. 



We beg to inform our friends that we have removed our Seed Business to more 

 commodious premises (No. 35 Cortlandt Street, New York,) where we have arranged to 

 extend this branch of our business on a scale similar to our Plant Business, and where, 

 as in it, our aim shall be to introduce everything 



NEW AND RARE IN FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS, 



as we have long done in plants. Our facilities for the prosecution of the seed business 

 are unsurpassed, as our extensive green-houses and grounds, and our long practice in all 

 kinds of horticultural pursuits, give us the means and the necessary knowledge to test 

 by actual experiment the varieties best suited to our climate. This we find to be more 

 and more necessary every season, as our " European Novelties " increase in number, 

 the actual cultivation of which here show us that not more than one in a dozen is 

 worthy of a place* 



Orders from Seed Catalogue should be sent on separate slieets from the orders from 

 Plant Catalogue, as the departments are entirely separate. Seed Catalogue, wholesale 

 and retail, sent on application. All orders for Seeds or Implements should be addressed 

 to PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35 Cortlandt Street, New York. If for Plants, only, 

 address PETER HENDERSON, 35 Cortlandt Street, New York. 



