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PETER HENDERSON & CO.-SEEDS OF SPECIAL MERIT. 



IPhe Sdips 



( See ■ Colored Plate. ) 



Another year's experience with the Eclipse Beet has so thoroughly convinced us of its value that we have 

 ]had a colored plate made of it, which, we think, accurately represents the shape and color of this splendid new 

 variety. The Eclipse Beet is about as early as the Egyptian, but we consider that it is better, because it is larger 

 and of much finer quality. It makes a small top, and produces smooth growing beets of the globe shape and 

 •dark crimson color shown in the plate. The fact is, the merit of the Egyptian variety consists solely in its 

 •earliness, and just as soon as other varieties mature, no one wants it. So that if we have a variety such as 

 the Eclipse that is almost as early, possessing qualities that the Egyptian entirely lacks, it must to a large 

 ^extent supplant it. 



10 cts. per pkt. ; 20 cts. per oz. ; 60 cts. per J^ lb. ; $2.00 per lb. 



Aitbeb Pop Coen. 



EARLY AMBER POP CORN. 



Our illustration, reduced from a photograph, will show 

 She shape of the ear and grain, but the beautiful amber 

 Ted color is of course wanting. It is a very early maturing 

 variety, and makes as fine Pop Corn as any of the better 

 inown sorts, and is in every respect beautiful and distinct. 

 25 cts. per lb.; 5 lbs. for $1.00. 



NEW SUGAR CORN, 

 "Shaker's Early." 



The following description of this New "Sugar Corn is sent us 

 by the introducers : 



" The stalk of this corn will in good soil attain a height of six 

 feet, each stalk bearing from two to three large ears, well filled 

 out to the tip of the cob. The kernels are large, of pearly white- 

 ness, and delicious flavor. It matures for market at about the 

 same time as the Early Minnesota, but the ears are very much 

 "larger. It is a great favorite with market gardeners ; its extreme 

 earliness, great productiveness and largeness of ear enabling 

 them to place it on the market at a time when no other Sweet 

 Corn but the inferior ears of the Marblehead can be obtained, 

 and it readily sells for from five to ten cents more per dozen 

 than the latter." 



Price, 50 cts. per qt. 



HENDERSON'S EMERALD PARSLEY. 



Perfection in Parsley has seemingly been reached in this 

 " Emerald " variety, offered last season for the first time. The 

 plant is of dwarf habit, with leaves finely cut and curled, and 

 of a deep emerald green hue. Growers for the markets of all 

 large cities know how important it is for their sales to have a 

 stock of Parsley that is " curly. " To such, as well as to amateur 

 cultivators, we commend this new sort. 



5 cts. per pkt. ; 20 cts. per oz. ; 60 cts. per ^ lb. ; 

 $2.00 per lb. 



Mobile, May 12th. 

 I planted six acres of Henderson's Early Summer Cabbage this season, and was so well pleased with them that I expect to .set out twenty 

 acres the comin^ season, and of course want, none but the best seed, so as not to make a mistake on a large scale. DAJMJil, SM1IH. 



