Please to read this Notice befbr t Ordtrinj 



Parties ordering will confer a particular favor by using the " order 

 sheet/' as it is a great saving of time to us, as well as insuring the more 

 correct filling of orders; nothing is more annoying when we are crowded 

 with business, than to get orders muddled up through the body of the letter. 



The system of packing adopted is now so complete, that although we 

 send out many thousand packages annually to every State and Territory 

 in the Union, it is rare to receive a complaint — not more than one in 300 

 cases — while we receive hundreds of letters attesting satisfaction at the 

 light, simple and safe method we practice, and the fine condition in which 

 the plants arrive. 



We begin shipping as soon as our Catalogue is issued in Jan- 

 uary, AND BY THE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AGAINST FROST, SELDOM HAVE 

 A CASE INJURED. 



Every order is sent the day after it is received, unless otherwise ordered ; 

 provided the article ordered is in proper condition to send, so that if parties 

 ordering do not receive goods in reasonable time they may be assured the 

 order has no breached us. 



All goocW are sent by express unless specially ordered otherwise, 

 and we earnestly advise our customers to have their plants always sent by 

 express, as our light system of packing makes the charges comparatively 

 low, and they almost invariably arrive in perfect order when thus sent. 

 The difference between express and freight charges is nothing when the 

 certainty of having them received in good condition, when sent by express, 

 is taken into consideration. 



We will send plants by mail as heretofore; but we would here impress 

 upon our patrons the fact, that no plant should ever be sent by mail to any 

 point where an express office reaches, as larger and finer plants and more of 

 them for the same amount, can be sent by express than by mail; for in all 

 orders from thus Catalogue, sent by express, extra plants are always in- 

 cluded that are ot more value than cost of expressage. 



It will always be to the interest of purchasers to leave the selection of 

 varieties as far as possible to us, when full sets are not taken, as it is very 

 difficult to judge of the merits of varieties by descriptions. When selec- 

 tions are left to us, persons may always rely on receiving better plants than 

 if they selected themselves, as perhaps the variety selected Ave may have no 

 good plants of. 



NO CHARGES FOR BOXES, BASKETS, OR PACKING. 



Orders from unknoivn correspondents, unless accompanied by a remit- 

 tance or satisfactory reference, tvill ~be sent by Express, C. 0. D. From this 

 ruU'ive make no deviation. 



Persons wishing to examine Stock should call at our Seed Store, 35 Cortlandt Street, 

 New York, where a card with directions will he given to reach the greenhouses on Jersey 

 City Heights. Time from Seed Store, 30 minutes hy steam cars or 40 minutes hy horse 

 cars'. I may here say that parties wishing to see me personally, will find me at the 

 greenhouses until 12 o'clock M , and at mj T office, 35 Cortlandt Street, New York, from 

 1.30 P. M. to 3.30 P. M. 



To those who are strangers to us, into whose hands this Catalogue may come, we* 

 beg to say that we are also largely engaged in the Seed Business; our extensive green- 

 houses and grounds give us peculiar advantages as Seedsmen, as we are thus enabled 

 practically to test not only the germinating qualities of all" seeds before offering them 

 for sale, but it also enables us to test the claims to merit of new varieties. This we 

 find to be more and more necessary every season, as our "European Novelties " increase 

 in number, and we find that it is folly to expect more than one in a dozen to be worth 

 cultivating. 



Those who receive this Catalogue only, may have the Seed Catalogue sent on ap- 

 plication. Parties ordering Plants will please make out order on order sheet for Plants; 

 if from Seed Catalogue on order sheet for Seeds, though both can be sent in one order. 



Peter Henderson, 35 Cortlandt St., N. Y. 



