PETER HENDERSON & CO.SEEDS OF SPECIAL MERIT. 



15. 



Pentium's Early Spfolf Cauliflower. 



Those who received our 1885 Catalogue may remember that we gave a view of the vaults of the 

 Mercantile Safe Deposit Co., of this city, wherein we had stored 250 lbs. of seed of the Henderson's "Early- 

 Snowball Cauliflower. The quantity we shall store in the same vaults this season will be considerably 

 in excess of this, as the demand for the seed is constantly increasing, due altogether to the intrinsic merit 

 of the variety itself ; for, not only is it the earliest Of all Cauliflowers, but it is more certain to make a. 

 head than any other sort ; and since we introduced the Snowball variety hundreds have grown Cauliflower 

 successfully by using this sort, where before they had utterly failed. Sown March 1st, year after year, 

 at the same time and under the same conditions with other kinds, we have had heads»of Henderson's Early 

 Snowball measuring nine inches in diameter ready by June 10th, about one week earlier than any other 

 sort. Besides, of this variety every plant formed a tine head, and in addition to all this, its dwarf habit 

 and short outer leaves allow it to be planted as close as 18 or 20 inches apart each way, so that from 

 12,000 to 14,000 can be set out on an acre. For forcing under glass during winter and spring thi& 

 Early Snowball variety is peculiarly well adapted, from its dwarf growth and short outer leave , and 

 for this purpose no other Cauliflower is now so largely grown. Finally, it may be stated that it does equally 



well for late planting. 



50 cts. per pkt. ; 5 pkts. for $2.00 ; $6.00 per oz. 



CAUTION. 



The well merited popularity of Henderson's Early Snowball Cauliflower has induced some of the leading as well as smaller 

 seedsmen to offer under the name of "Snowball," or "Early Snowball," and at a lower price, an entirely different stock of 

 Cauliflower. In order that any possible purchasers may not be misled, we would say that the stock of Cauliflower which we 

 named "Henderson's Early Snowball," and first sent out, is controlled entirely by ourselves, and can be had only of us, and 



of such seedsmen who purchase their supplies from us, and in whose catalogues it will be 

 found at rates uniform with our own, or under the name of " Henderson's Early Snowball 

 Cauliflower." In this connection we would state that of nearly a dozen samples of so-called 

 Early Snowball Cauliflower, obtained from other seedsmen, which we tested in our trial 

 grounds, not one was true, and some grew to a height of nearly three feet without any 

 tendency to head whatever. 



Last year, in order to protect customers and ourselves, we placed a label on the back 

 of every package, large and small, that we sent out, whether we sold it to customers direct- 

 or furnished it to other dealers. This year we shall continue the same plan, the only 

 difference being that, as we have now adopted a uniform trade mark to be put on all 

 our Vegetable seed packages, we shall use on the Henderson's Early Snowball Cauliflower 

 the same label that we use on all other Vegetable seeds sold from this catalogue. 

 Customers, therefore, will be justified in rejecting any package of Henderson's Early 

 Snowball Cauliflower offered them that does not bear either this label, or the libel tiiat 

 we used on the packages sent out by us in 1885. A fac-simile of the 1885 label will be 

 found on page 13 of catalogue for that year. 



Rochester, N. Y., October 5th, 1885. 

 I send you two heads of Henderson's Early Snowball Cauliflower as grown by me from seed you supplied me in sealed packages. They 

 are samples of what I am cutting by the hundred. I took first premium at the fair for the three best. F. £. RUDMAN. 



