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strawberry 



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Vegetable Plants 



for 



Summer Plantin* 



Seasonable 



Lawn and Garden 



Requisites 



MIDSUMMER 



1909 

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Vegetable 



and 



Tarm Seeds 



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Summer Sowin* 



Insecticides 



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U^F HFI l\/FD FDFF '" "^^ United States to any Post Office, R.R. Exp. Office or Freight Station at our option 

 WD UDL»I VUri IKDD Vegetable Seeds, Flower Seeds, Lawn Grass Mixtures and Books (except where otherwise 

 ■^^^^^^^^^^■"^~'~~^^~ noted). 



Purchaser pays transit charges only on pints, quarts, pecks, bushels, and barrels, and on Farm Seeds, Tools, Implements, 

 Insecticides, etc. 



Plants we do NOT deliver free by express. We make no charge for r)acking. but in all cases the buyer 

 , ».^ must pay the carrying charges. We deliver plants free by mail if so ordered and it is practicable: 

 but we have to take the soil from the roots to lighten the weight and must send smaller plants than 

 if sent by express. We always add extra plants to help defray express charges. 

 PETER HE.NDERSON & CO. give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness, or any 

 other matter of any Seeds. Bulbs or plants they send out, and they will not be in any way responsible for the crop. If the 

 imrchaser does not accept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned. 



=:HOW BEST TO ORDER AND PP^^IT 



Remittances should be made either in the form of an 

 Express Aloney Order or a P. O. Money Order, Bank Draft 

 or Registered Letter. 



Customers can also shop by express, as all express com- 

 panies have purchasing departments in all their offices. If 

 you wish to order goods from us to be sent by express, ask 

 for a Purchasing Order Blank at any express office, and it 

 will be supplied and forwarded without charge, other than 

 the usual rate for returning goo(is. 



If goods are wanted C. O. D., 2'> per cent, of the amount 

 must aceomijaliy the order. 



Orders from unknown correspondents, without remittance, 

 should be accompanied by .\'ew York City references, to 

 save delay. 



About packing and shipping and no charge made. We 

 make no charge '.or j.iacking excepting for cloth bags and 

 no charge for cartage or delivery of goods to any railway 

 station, steamship line or express office in New Vork City. 



Have your plants sent b>' express. They will reach you 

 in better condition than by mail. We have secured for 

 our customers from railway express companies a special 

 rate on plants from New York, which is twenty per cent. 

 less than merchandise rates at which they were heretofore 

 carried. 



The safe arrival is guaranteed in good condition of straw- 

 berry plants sent by express where transit does not ex- 

 ceed three days. Pot-grown strawberry plants ready about 

 Aug. 1st. Vegetable plants ready between July 1st and 

 August 1st. 



=SEASONABLE BOOKS. 



Cabbages, How to Grow. By J. J. H. Gregory. IJr- 

 lails in culture, keeping, marketing, etc 



Cabbages, Cauliflower, etc. By C. L. .•\llen. A new 

 work. Gives complete instructions from seed time 

 till harvest 



Cabbages and Cauliflowers for Profit. By J. M. Lupton. 

 A new book on this subject by a successful grower. 



Celery Culture. By W. R. Beattie A practical guide for 

 beginners and a standard reference to those al- 

 ready engaged in growing celery 



Celery Culture for Profit. By Greiner. New and im- 

 proved methods of culture 



Celery, Kalamazoo Culture of. By G. von Bochove 

 Improved methods of culture. "The Secret of Suc- 

 cess' and full infomiation 



Strawberry Culturist. By A. S. Fuller. Field, garden, 

 forcing and i>ot culture: hybridizing, varieties, etc. 



Strawberry Culture, The A B C of. By T. B. Terry. 

 The latest on this subject and by an experienced 

 grower 



Ghas. Henderson, Pres. 



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Spra>ing Crops. By Clarence ^r. Weed. .-V revised and 

 enlarged edition, telling when and how garden and 

 field crops, fruit and shade trees should be sprayed 

 for their various insect and funguous enemies. 

 Illustrated 



Pumigation .Methods. By Prof. Willis G. Johnson, ."tn 

 up-to-date work on the practical application of hy- 

 drocyanic acid gas and carbon bi-sulphid, for the 

 destruction of insects and larvae in orchards, gran- 

 aries, greenhouses, etc. Illustrated 



Insects Injurious to Vegetables. By F. H. Chitten- 

 den. .\ ready reference book for truckers, market 

 gardeners, farmers, as well as others wlio grow 

 vegetables in a small way for home use 



Insects and Insecticides. .By Prof.- Weed. Tells how 

 to combat insects in field, orchard, garden, grcen- 

 liouse and dwelling 



Pungi and Fungicides. By Prof. Weed.- Fungous dis- 

 eases of plants, etc., and their trc&tmcnt 



The Spraying of Plants. By Prof. Lodeman. Insects 

 and fungi: liquids and powders: application and 

 apixiratus 



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