PARTIAL VIEW OF OUB GREENHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT, ARLINGTON AVE., JERSEY CITY, N. J. 



printed ioo copies. This year (1895) the catalogues, general and special, issued by Peter Henderson & Co. will 

 aggregate 850,000 Copies (an increase since 1885 alone of 450,000 copies). To fittingly equip this mighty army of silent 

 workers requires over 150 tons of paper ; to mail them will necessitate an outlay for postage stamps alone of $25,000 ! 



In our 1887 catalogue we stated that the quantities of seeds sold by us in 1886 showed an increase of over three- 

 fold over those of 1880. How well this department is holding its own is shown by the fact that in 1888 it became 

 necessary to erect a three-story warehouse in Jersey City, 50 feet wide by 100 feet long, with a capacity for 100,000 

 bushels; and at this writing (November, 1894) we are completing a still larger building on adjoining land which will 

 hold over 150,000 bushels. Now, the average size of a city lot in this vicinity is 25 feet front by 100 feet deep ; so that 

 if. we take the floor areas of all our buildings in New York and Jersey City devoted entirely to seeds it would make a 

 building 25 by 100 feet 



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each floor averaging 10 feet in the clear. Our greenhouse department in Jersey City covers nearly 5 acres solid in glass. 

 Here, too, are located the houses and grounds devoted to our seed testing and trials ; but as the demands of our Plant 

 business would no longer permit us to maintain on an adequate scale our Trial Grounds in Jersey City, we two years 

 ago established, at Hackensack, N. J., our Seed Trial Farm. Although in operation only two seasons, we already have 

 under cultivation 30 acres, devoted exclusively to comparative trials, not only of our own stocks, but also samples of 

 every obtainable novelty issued i>y other houses, and all such as are found distinct and worthy are later on offered to 

 our trade. In these brief and general statistics we have said nothing as to our yearly output of Celery, Cabbage and 

 other vegetable plants, our sales of which, it is within bounds to say, reach in numbers nearly ten millions annually. 



PARTIAL VIEW OF SEED TRIAL FARM, HACKENSACK, N. J. 



