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5 WVEIvion ceLery PLANTS, 
PETER HENDERSON & CO’S WHOLESALE MONTHLY LIST OF SEEDS. 
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JULY AND AUGUST. © 
We are the largest raisers of CELERY 
grown are described and priced in this circular. 
we never make any charge for boxes, packing or delivering to Express Offices in New York, and 
PLANTS in the world. The leading kinds now | 
In ordering, customers should bear in mind that 
also that we guarantee safe arrival of all Vegetable Plants shipped by express, if the time in transit 
does not exceed three days. 
NEW CELERY—HENDERSON’S WHITE PLUME. 
It affords us great pleasure in being able this season to 
offer plants for the first time, of this most valuable new 
variety, and at such prices as will enable everyone to make 
an extended trial of it. We feel satisfied that this new 
kind of Celery will so simplify its culture, that the most in- 
experienced can now grow Celery blanched in the proper 
condition for the table, just as easily as a Cabbage or Lettuce. 
The peculiarity of the Celery known as ‘‘ White Plume” is, 
that naturally its stalk and portions of its inner leaves and 
heart are white, so that, by closing the stalks, either by ty- 
ing them up with matting, or by simply drawing the soil up 
against the plant and pressing it together with the hands, 
and again drawing up the soil with the hoe or plow, £0 as to 
keep the soil that has been squeezed against the Celery in 
its place, the work of blanching is completed; while it is 
well known that in all other kinds of Celery, in addition to 
this, the slow and troublesome process of high “ banking” or 
earthing up with the spade is a necessity. 
Another great merit of the “‘ White Plume ” Celery is, 
that it far exceeds any known vegetable as an ornament for 
the table, the inner leaves being disposed somewhat like an 
ostrich feather, so as to suggest the name we have given it 
of ‘ White Plume.” 
It is well known that one-half the value of a Celery, par- 
ticularly in our best hotels and restaurants, is held to be its 
fitness as a table ornament, and for this purpose this new 
variety is admirably fitted. In addition to this, its eating 
qualities are equal to the very best of the older sorts, being 
crisp, solid, and having that nutty flavor peculiar to the 
“Walnut” and some of the red sorts. Altogether, we 
cannot find words sufficient to describe its many merits as 
it deserves. 
The great bugbear in the enltivation of Celery, by those 
tailed in the ‘‘ banking” to whiten or blanchit; and with 
the unskilled amateur growing a few hundred for private } 
| use, the troublesome process of ‘‘banking” has usually 
| been a detriment suflicient to prevent him from trying. 
| Now he can grow this new sort just as simply as any other 
vegetable. In the first week of October of 1882, the Celery 
| banks in Hudson County, New Jersey, must have cost at } 
| least $15,000 in labor to erect; but a rain storm of twenty- 
| four hours’ duration washed the banks down and destroyed 
| the work of weeks. 
| process of blanching no high banks would have been needed, 
and the storm would have been nearly harmless, as the } 
““wash ” would have done but a trifling injury. In size ard 
weight it is very similar to those popular kinds, the ‘‘ Golden 
ated in what is known as a “ sport.” from *‘ Henderson’s 
Half Dwarf ;” that is, a single plant showed the whiteness 
of stem and peculiar feathery leaves, which fortunately, 
entirely new type of Celery. Its culture is in all respects 
or earthing up. 
In our general Catalogue issued January Ist of this year, 
| we gave it as our opinion, that from its delicate structure 
prised to find that it kept with us in perfect condition until 
middle of February. 
Price, - 
Extra strong transplanted plants, - 
$4 50 per 1000 
750 “ 1000 
FOR PLANTING OUT IN” 
were permanently reproduced from seed, and gave us this } 
the same as that directed for the other sorts, with the ex- | 
ception that we are saved the trouble of high “banking” 
the White Plume Celery would not be likely to keeginas | 
well as some of the other sorts, but we were agreeably sur-- 
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| engaged in growing it for market, has been the labor en- | 
Had this new Celery been under | 
Dwarf” and “‘ Henderson’s Half Dwarf;” in fact it origin- 
