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(Copyrighted, 1890, by Peter Hei °-)son & Co.) 
\ Ge is almost unnecessary to state that the intro- 
duction to this Catalogue is written under 
~ very different auspices than that of a year ago. Then, the illustrious 
founder of this house was with us, and still had his hand on the helm of the 
great business ship which he piloted in safety for so many years. And while 
PETER HENDERSON'S claims to the remembrance of the country will 
ultimately depend upon his published works, yet he laid the foundations of his great 
business so broad and so deep that it may not be presumptuous in us to hope that it | 
will prove a monument to his sagacity long after the existing management has passed away. 
The present managers, ALFRED HENDERSON and CHARLES HENDERSON, have had a practical i 
training possessed by few in the seed and plant business, having served a full apprenticeship in } 
every department of the garden and green-house, under the greatest of horticultural teachers. This training 
has not only been of inestimable value to us personally, but it has, we believe, given us such experience 
as to enable us to select, in conducting the business, a larger staff of expert seedsmen and florists than 
any other house in America. 
The altered circumstances under which this Catalogue is issued makes it not inappropriate, we hope, 
to repeat in a measure a few facts in regard to the development of the business entrusted to our care. 
The first Catalogue sent out by Mr. Peter Henderson, published over forty years ago, was a modest 
. Sheet of four pages, of which one hundred copies were printed, In 1890 the Catalogues, general and special, 
issued by Peter Henderson & Co., aggregated six hundred thousand copies, requiring over one hundred 
and twenty-five tons of paper for their production. 
The quantities of vegetable seeds disposed of by us in 1890, compared with what we sold even so recently 
as ten years back, show an increase in this department of over five-fold. The quantities of flower seeds 
sold have also shown a very marked increase, while in the case of grass seeds, either for the lawn, hay 
or pasture, the increase in the last few years has been something phenomenal. 
To carry on our seed business now taxes the capacity of two buildings, 35 and 37 Cortlandt Street, 
New York, which have an area of thirteen floors, each 25 x 130 feet. In addition to this, in 1889 we erected in 
Jersey City a storage seed warehouse with a capacity of over one hundred thousand bushels. These, together 
with our extensive green-house establishment in Jersey City, which is admittedly the largest and best 
arranged in the United States, place us in an unequaled position both in the seed and florist business. 
The New York State Fair.—Above we give an excellent portrayal of the exhibit we made at the New 
York Agricultural Society’s Fair Grounds, Syracuse, N. Y., in September, 1890. Last year being the semi-centennial of 
this Society, we gladly accepted an invitation to make an exhibit, to mark our appreciation of fifty years of valuable 
work by the leading agricultural society of America. Our exhibit was admitted to be worthy of the occasion, and was, 
perhaps, the best and most complete display of the kind ever gotten together in this country. A special feature was a 
full collection of the grasses and forage plants of our country, both in the green and dry state, together with a full set 
of samples of the seeds which produced them. Our general exhibit of vegetable and flower seeds was on a scale rarely 
ever attempted, and attracted the attention and admiration of thousands. 
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