PETER HENDERSON & CO.-SEEDS OF SPECIAL MERIT. 



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HENDERSON'S EARLY SNOWBALL CAULIFLOWER. 



(See illustration on Colored Plate.) 



But few people have any idea of the value or extent of certain stocks of seeds that some seed houses carry. 

 For instance, we have stored in the vaults of the Mercantile Safe Deposit Co., of this City, 250 lbs. of Henderson's 



Early Snowball Cauliflower Seed, which, at our selling 

 price of $8.00 per oz., foots up a value of $32,000. By 

 the time this seed is sold and distributed it will have pro- 

 duced, under favorable conditions, nearly 8,000,000 plants* 

 which, if sold at the low average price of six cents per head, 

 will have yielded nearly half a million dollars. That 

 we have a demand large enough to justify us carrying a 

 stock of seed so costly is due to the intrinsic merit of the 

 variety itself, for not only is it the earliest of all Cauli- 

 flowers, 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 fine 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 

 (View in Safe Deposit Vaults.) to 14,000 can be set out on an acre. 



For forcing under glass during winter and spring, this Early Snowball variety is peculiarly well adapted, from 

 its dwarf growth and short outer leaves, 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. 



CAUTION. 



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

 leading as weli 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 con- 

 trolled entirely by ourselves, and can be had only of us, and 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~'Ea.rly Snowball Cauliflower obtained from 

 other seedsmen, which we tested in our trial grounds last 

 season, not one was true, and some grew to a height of nearly 3 

 feet, without any tendency to head whatever. 



In order to still further protect customers and ourselves, we 

 heg to state that, with the beginning of 1885, every package, 

 large and small, whether bought of us or other dealers, contain- 

 ing genuine Henderson's Early Snowball Cauliflower Seed, will 

 bear upon the back a label of which the accompanying illustra- 

 tion is a fac-simile. 



Reject any package of Henderson's Early Snowball Cauls. 

 flower Seed offered you that does not bear this label. 



Price, 50 cts. per pkt ; $8.00 per ounce, (j^ ounces and 

 % ounces at ounce rates.) 



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