PETER HENDERSON 6c CO., NEW YORK 



JEESEY CITY WAEEHOUSE. ERECTED 1894. 

 CAPACITV, 150,000 BUSHELS. 



JEESEY CITY WAEEHOUSE. ERECTED 1888. 

 CAPACXTT, 100,000 BUSHELS. 



THE above views show our Cortlandt Street store in the centre, and on either side the new warehouses (combined 

 capacity, 250,000 bushels) which we recently found necessary to build in Jersey City to cope %vith and properly 

 carry on our ever-increasing business. They are equipped with the most modern seed-cleaning machinery, 

 enabling us to supply grass, clover and other seeds of the choicest quality and absolute purit}'. An indication 

 of the excellence of our seeds is the fact that we were granted 



THIRTY-THREE MEDALS AND AWARDS AT THE WORLD^S FAIR 



for purity, cleanliness of sample and superior quality. With our grass and clover seeds we exercise the same care in 

 testing, both as to germination and trueness of stock, that we do with our vegetable and flower seeds, and better quali- 

 ties or better values cannot be purchased anywhere. All samples are carefully examined, in many cases by powerful 

 microscopes, both before and after cleaning, and all lots are rejected which do not come up to our high standard, both 



in purity and in germinating qualities. Our prices are made to meet the times, and are put at the 

 lowest possible basis for such quality of seeds, AND IF LOWER PRICES ARE QUOTED 



YOU IT CAN ONLY BE AT THE EXPENSE OP QUALITY. A notable instance of this kind 

 recently came to our notice. A gentleman brought to us ten samples of orchard grass, under number, all being 

 in exactly the same kind of package, and without saying w^ho they were from or that one of them was our own, asked 

 us to say which was the best value. More than one-half of them we promptly marked rubbish and cleanings, and the 

 others were of very inferior quality, either naturally or by mixing in light seed and other cleanings, while many were 

 purposely adulterated with rye grass and other cheaper seeds to bring down the value. Such Seeds Can, Of COUrse, 

 be sold cheap. We picked out a sample (which turned out to be our own) as the only one in the lot worth the price 

 asked, though it was higher in price than any of the others. Our grass mixtures for hay and permanent pasture have 

 a national reputation, and are rapidly supplanting all the old methods of seeding down land to grass, and we invite all 

 agriculturists to read pages 2 to 8, knowing they will prove interesting and profitable to all who desire 



"IVrORE HAY AND BETTKR PASTURE." 



C CORRESPONDENCE. We have made the subject of laying down land to grass, whether for hay or permanent 

 > pasture, or a lawn, a special study, as well as the improvement of land by plowing 



under suitable crops, the proper rotations to give best results, etc., and are pleased to advise our customers* 

 and invite correspondence on these subjects. 



Peter Henderson & Co., 



35 & 37 CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK. 



From the Florists' Exchange, October Sth, 1S95. 



THE SEED-CIiEANING IllliliS. "For wbile the Rreat bulk of all the seeds handled by this firm are well cleaned when received, yet so particular 

 are they, and so exacting are the requirements of their trade, that nearly everything is put through their own mills before being sold. The mills are of the 

 most approved styles, and it is something marvelous the work that they will do. At the time of our visit all the mills were under full blast and discharging 

 from their various spouts, in some instances peas, and in others some of the finer varieties of grass seeds. In these days of keen competition the best equipped 

 establishments forge to the front, and it certainly seems to us that it would be impossible to improve on the methods and machinery used by this firm." 



