JEBSEY CITY WAREHOUSE, EBECTED 1888. 

 CAPACITY, 100,000 BUSHELS. 



Peter Henderson & Co.'s 



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Everything for the Garden 



For 1895A 



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HE millions all over the land interested in horticultural matters may be divided into two b .Cai ciasscsT 

 — those who garden for profit, and those who garden for pleasure or for home use only. To the 

 latter class this Catalogue, from its size and general arrangement, will naturally largely appeal. 



The fascination that all operations connected with the soil have always had for mankind we 

 shall not dilate upon here ; and yet we know that whether one be a toiler in the city or his more- 

 to-be-envied fellow-mortal in the country, there comes, with the approach of spring, visions of the 

 delights of gardening, of which, we are told, Adam, our common progenitor, was the first exponent. 

 Whilst the opportunity is seldom given to the city resident to "make a garden," yet we know that thousands of 

 business men who live in the suburbs of all our large cities find, in the grounds surrounding their dwellings, a 

 rest for wearied brain and body such as no other relaxation affords. It would seem, then, that the sources from 

 whence these gardens derive either their beauty or utility are matters of general interest. 



Among the many famous names, from Loudon down, who, by their writings and teachings, have invested the 

 art of gardening with its indefinable charm, that of the late Peter Henderson is still among the most con- 

 spicuous. Although his death occurred in 1890, his published books, whether on vegetable or flower gardening, the 

 greenhouse or grounds, or even the wider field of the farm, are still to-day the accepted authorities as they were 

 for the twenty years preceding his death. This has been largely due to his simple, straightforward way of imparting 

 information on any of the topics on which he assumed to instruct. Some idea of the sale of Mr. Henderson's 

 books may be formed when it is stated that of his work on vegetable culture alone, Gardening for Profit, upwards 

 of 125,000 copies have been sold, while the sales of Practical Floriculture, Gardening for Pleasure, The New Hand- 

 book of Plants, How the Farm Pays, and Garden and Farm Topics will aggregate at least 150,000 copies morp 

 It was of Gardening for Profit that the late Horace Greeley wrote : "Thoroughly practical, yet readable as ? 



To those familiar with the career of Peter Henderson & Co. it is unnecessary to state wh 

 agents these books have been in the development of every department of the business. And befor/ 

 give a few facts in regard to our remarkable business growth, it seems fitting that we should take t) 

 to heartily thank our thousands of customers for a patronage that steadily increases as the years vj 

 If it were possible to obtain a complete set of all the catalogues issued by us since the busi/ 

 lished, such a collection would not only be symbolical of our business development, but it would a 

 reflection of the wonderful progress American horticulture has made in the last fifty years. The firs 

 out by Mr. Peter Henderson, in '49 or '50, was a modest sheet of four pages, without cuts, and 



