PETER HENDERSON & CO.— INTRODUCTORY. 



XHE PRIZE ^WIIVPJERS OF 1888. 



Last season we offered cash prizes for the best specimens of various vegetable novelties offered by us, 

 raised from seed procured from us. The competition was very brisk, and we received many splendid 

 specimens of nearly everything, from all sections of the country, particularly in the case of the Puritan 

 Potato, of which we received 278 competitive lots alone. The awards were made with careful regard to the 

 trueness of type of the specimens submitted, as well as to the size and weight, with the following results : 



Names of Winners. 



For the best head of Henderson's Succession Cabbage 1st prize. S25. 00— Silas L. Albeetson, Eoslj'n, N. Y. 



-C. M. Petekson, Northport, N. Y. 



2d " 15.00— C. M. Petekson, Northport, N. 



3d " 10.00— KiCHAED Kemp, Coal Vallej% Pa. 



1st " '25.00— C. P. Wilcox, De Land, Fla. 



2d " 15.00— C. P. Lachicotte, Waverly Mills, S. C. 



3d " 10.00— C. A. Hay, Fort Wayne, Ind. 



1st " 50.00— J. G. Van Voost, Townsend, Mont. Ter. 



2d " 35.00— G. E. Wheelee, Linden, N. Y. 



3d " 25.00— G. C. McFadden, Townsend, Mont. Ter. 



4th " 15.00— W. G. Ceowell, Dillon, Mont. Ter. 



15.00— C. A. Smith, Port Monmouth, N. J. 



10.00 — Benj. Veeeland, Jersey City, N. J. 



10.00— W. H. LxMAN, Tottenville, N. Y. 



20.00 — W. S. MoNTGOMEET, Dower Lake, Minn. 



-.Q QQ j J. W. Haelan, Mauch Chunk, Pa. 



j Feank Jackson, Englewood, N. J. 



All the specimens entered for competition were judged by Messrs. J. L. CONOVER, Wickatunk, N. J., 



and Peter B. Mead, Mamaroneck, N. Y., both eminent authorities on such matters, who, after careful 



consideration, awarded the prizes as above, and our checks to the various winners were mailed Nov. 15th. 



$100.00 in Cash Prizes in 1889. — While we know there will be an enormous demand 

 this coming season for Henderson's New Bush Lima Bean, yet to still further stimulate the interest, 

 we offer $100.00 in Cash Prizes, on the following conditions : 



Prize, $50.00. For a single plant bearing the greatest number of pods. 



and heaviest Henderson's Green and Gold Water Melon. 



12 tubers Henderson's Early Puritan Potato. 



" " Emerald Gem Musk Melon 1st 



" 2d 



10 pods of White Velvet Okra 



and heaviest Early ProUfio Marro-w Squash 1st 



2d 



1st 



2d Prize, 

 3d Prize, 

 dth Prize, 



25.00. For a single plant bearing the next greatest number of pods. 

 15.00. For a single plant bearing the next greatest number of pods. 

 10.00. For a single plant bearing the next greatest number of pods. 



All entries must be delivered at our stores, 35 & 37 Cortlandt Street, New York, charges paid, on or 

 before November ist, 1889. 



Seed Xesting. — The seed business is a peculiar one, and differs from nearly all others in the fact 

 that after the seeds are sown, weeks and often months must elapse before their germinating qualities or 

 purity can be established, and so for this reason the 

 exchange of seeds between buyer and seller must ever 

 be entirely a matter of confidence, and that confidence, 

 we believe, can only be lastingly held by such seed 

 firms as are known to test their seeds before selling. While 

 we plume ourselves on the fact that of the very few firms 

 who test their seeds, the methods we practice are as com- 

 plete and thorough as any, yet the results we obtain are not 

 always conclusive, because our practical experience of 

 many years as market gardeners and florists has fully as- 

 sured us of the fact that crops may fail, no matter how 

 fresh or pure the seed sown to produce them may be. The 

 failure of seed to germinate may result from causes that 

 the utmost care of the most experienced cultivators cannot 

 control, and the maturing of crops also repeatedly fails, 

 so as to be a total loss, from causes that no human being 

 can avert. Hence, to guarantee seeds to invariably pro- 

 duce a perfect crop, is little short of quackery. And while 

 we are justified in believing that the seeds we offer are 

 unsurpassed in qualit}^ still, for the reasons above given, 

 we have always stated most emphatically that we do not 

 (and our employees also have strict orders never to do so), 

 under any circumstances, guarantee or warrant seeds. seed testing gkekn-house of peter hesdekson 1 co. 



