PETER HENDERSON & CO'S INTRODUCTORY. 



Fall Bulbs. Of these articles which will be found fully detailed elsewhere in the 

 list, we can till orders the first week in September, with a few exceptions. We catalogue 

 here only well-known and approved sorts. Our Retail Bulb Catalogue for this season, will 

 embrace many Xew and Scarce Bulbs, which we can supply when wanted, at a discount of 

 one-tbird from our retail prices. 



Requisites for Florists and Market Gardeners. Instead of issu- 

 ing a special catalogue of these goods, as in previous }'ears, we this year embody in this 

 wholesale list, which we think a more convenient arrangement. Our list of everything in this line 

 will be found complete, and the special attention of Florists is directed to our assortment of 

 Straw Baskets, which comprises all the latest novelties used by New York Bouquet Makers, 

 who unquestionably " make the fashions " in their department. 



Premiums. On all orders from this list to the amount of So. 00 and upwards, (in one 

 orden. we will send without charge a copy of Peter Henderson's " Horticultural Essays" 

 value, 75 cents, or when the order is to the extent of 820.00 and upwards, purchasers choice 

 of any one of Peter Henderson's three books "Gardening for Profit," "Practical 

 FLORicrLTiRE " or Gardening for Pleasure," retail price of which is $1.50 each, and 

 when the order amounts to $40.00 and upwards, we will send the buyer his choice of any two 

 of the above three books, or instead a copy of our latest work, " Henderson's Handbook of 

 Plants " the value of which is $3.00, but it is understood that the book or books desired 

 must be selected at the time of ordering. When books are not w r anted, their value maybe 

 selected in goods at list rates. 



Of the Books above referred to, Horticultural Essays, written last spring, details our latest 

 experience on the following subjects : 



Green-House Structures and Modes of Heating Hot- Beds. Manures, and their Modes of Application. 

 Strawberry Culture. Celery Growing and Storing for Winter. Rose Growing, for Winter and 

 Summer Flowers. Root Crops for Farm Stock. Market Gardens Around Xew York. 

 Popular Errors and Scientific Dogmas in Horticulture. Use of the Feet in Sow- 

 ing and Planting. Humbugs in Horticulture. Draining. 

 Gardening for Profit gives, in comprehensive detail, our twenty-five years experience 



in MARKET GARDENING. 



Practical Floriculture (new edition) gives, up to date, our whole experience in the 

 propagation and growing of plants during the past thirty years. 



Gardening for Pleasure is a concise compendium, giving plain details for theCulture of 

 frctts, flowers and vegetables, and general gardening, for the use of Amateur 

 Cultivators. 



Henderson's Handbook of Plants is a condensed encyclopedia of over 400 pages, giving 

 Botanical Classification, Propagation and Culture of nearly every known Plantin cultivation, 

 ornamental or useful, up to the present time. 



Persons wishing to examine stock should call at our Seed Stores, 35 & 37 Cortlandt St., New 

 York, where a card with directions will be given to reach the Green houses at Jersey City 

 Heights. Time from Seed Store, 30 minutes by steam cars, or 40 minutes by horse cars. I 

 may here say, that parties wishing to see me personally, will find me at the. Green-houses 

 until 12 M., and at my office in New York, from 1.30 to 3 P. M. 



How to Send Money. — Remittances should be made either by Draft, Post Office 

 Order, or Registered Letter ; but in no case should bills be sent in a letter, unless registered. 

 If early all loss of letters is in those unregistered containing bills. 



Peter Henderson & Co., 



35 & 37 Cortlandt Street, 



NEW YORK. 



