PETER HENDERSON & GO., NEW YORK.—VEGETABLE SEEDS. 15 
Genuine only when 
they bear 
this Trade-Mark. 
All Vegetable Seeds offered in this Catalogue by the packet, ounce, 14 Ib., 
k DELIVER FREE pound, 1¢ pint, pint and quart. | 
All Flower Seeds and Bulbs, excepting Caladiums and Gladiolus by the 1oo. 
TO ANY POST OFFICE 
Purchaser pays transit charges only on pecks, bushels and barrels, and on 
IN Farm Seeds, Tools, Implements, Fertilizers, Insecticides, etc. 
THE NITED TATES In regard to the shipment of Plants, full details are given on page 105. 
=) ASPARAGUS, @& 
German, Spargel.—French, Asperge.—Spanish, Esparragos. 1 oz. for 60 feet of drill. 
A convenient bed is about six feet wide, with a path two feet on each side. This will require six rows one foot apart, and a bed of tnat width fifty feet long will be 
ample for an ordinary family, requiring about one pound of seed. It will require about three years from the time of sowing until the bed is in full bearing, but once 
established is good for twenty years. It should be sown in drills one foot apart, and when the plants are four or five inches high they should be thinned out so that the 
plants will be nine inches apart from each other in all the rows. Great care must be taken for the first year to keep down all weeds as soon as they appear, else they will 
choke up and destroy the young seedling Asparagus. The deeper the soil and greater abundance of manure that is used the greater will be the crop. 
THE PALMETTO. Until we found this new Palmetto Asparagus, Conover’s Colossal was the leading sort, and justly so; but the 
Palmetto is not only much earlier, but is also a better yielder, and is more even and regular in its growth and must eventually sup- 
plant the old favorite. Average bunches, containing fifteen shoots, measure 1313 inches in circumference, and weigh about two 
pounds. The Palmetto has y 
now been planted in all parts 
of the country, and the re- 
ports we have indicate that it 
is equally well adapted for all 
sections North and South. Its 
quality is unequaled. (See cut.) 
10c. pkt., 25c. oz., Tic. 14 lb., 
$2.00 Ib. 
Colossal. The standard variety. 
The shoots are of the largest 
size; very productive and of = 
the best quality. 5c. pkt., 
1c. 0z., 20. 14 lb., 50c. Ib. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 
Tf to be sent by mail add 40 cts. per 
100 to the prices. 
A saving of one to two years is effected 
by planting roots, Those offered below 
are strong two-year-old roots. For pri- 
vate use or for marketing on a small 
scale, beds should be formed five feet 
wide with three rows planted in each, 
one in the middle and one on each side 
a foot from the edge; distance between 
the plants in the rows, nine inches. 
THE PALMETTO. Splendid 
roots. (See cut.) $1.50 per 100, 
$10.00 «per 1,000. Selected 
roots, three-year-old, $2.50 per 
100. (50 roots at 100 rate; 500 
at 1,000 rate.) 
Colossal. Fine two-year-old 
roots at $1.00 per 100, $6.00 
per 1,000. (50 roots at 100 av fs = é 
rate; 500 af 1,000 rate.) Ji7™ f ff -N C We) Keys De aS ff: y 235 
EVERY PACKAGE OF SEEDS, large or small, sent out by us, bears our RED TRADE-MAKK.. Whether you purchase directly from us 
or from other dealers, see that every package is so stamped, . 
