VIEWS IN PETER HENDERSON & CO’S 
Vegetable Seed 
Departments. 
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: Packet Room. 
First view on the left 
shows a familiar scene in 
our establishment during 
the months of October, 
November and December. 
In this department alone 
we employ sixty hands, , 
putting up nearly three (2 
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million packets. 
gm? First of All Peas. 
Next we show a view 
of one of our floors of 
First of All Peas; of 
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this variety we carry in \7~ Z 
stock over ten thousand G 
bushels. This will give 
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Caulifiower in 
Vault. 
The small view 
of the Mercantile Safe 
Deposit Vaults shows 
our Snowball Cauli- 
flower asitisactually packed 
away there for safe-keeping. 
Our stock of this variety is so 
valuable that we find that storage 
behind their bolts and bars is 
cheaper than insurance, and then 
too, what is of more importance, 
it places beyond possible loss 
from fire, a stock of seeds that 
money could not replace, and 
which is worth millions of dol- 
lars to the gardeners and truckers 
of this country. 
Seed Testing. 
The practice which we 
inaugurated years ago of 
testing before selling all 
seeds, both for germina- 
tion and purity of stock, is now 
imitated by nearly every seed 
house in this country. But we 
claim, as pioneersin this, asystem 
possessed by nootherdealer. The 
usual custom is tosprout seeds on 
damp cotton or paper; by this . 
unnatural method a high and mis- 
leading percentage of growth is 
obtained which is not borne out 
in practical tests. Our method 
is tosow the seeds in ‘‘old 
mother earth,’’ thus arriving at 
the actual percentage the seeds 
will grow. This can only be done 
in a greenhouse establishment 
such as ours, where we have 
houses kept at the various tem- 
peratures required by the nature 
of the seed. 
Onion Field. 
The field view of Qnion gives 
a fair idea of its appearance when 
in the seeding state. Our 
stocks of this important 
vegetable are grown from 
carefully selected 
bulbs and cannot be 
excelled 
Cabbage. 
The small view of Cabbage 
Field shows men at work culling 
outtheinferiortypes. Soparticu- 
lar are we with this article that we 
frequently throw away three- 
fourths of the crop, so as to 
retain only the very finest forseed 
purposes, 
Potatoes. 
The small view at the nextshows 
our Potato cellars, which 
have a capacity of eight 
thousand barrels. In them 
are stored selected 
seed stock of all the 
best varieties of this 
great staple. 
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The central view shows 
our outside trial grounds. 
Here all the varieties of 
vegetable and flower seeds 
are grown to perfection, and 
progress of each sample is 
watched by experts day by 
day, and the slightest infe- 
riorities in any of our stocks 
are thus at once detected. 
We believe that by this sys- 
tem we throw more safe- 
guards around our custom- 
ers than any other house in 
the trade, yet, despite all care, 
crops will fail and seeds will hy 
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fail to germinate, from causes 
beyond our control. Hence, ry 3 
to guarantee seeds to invari- SS Cy. 
ably produce a perfect crop is Soe 4 », 
little short of quackery. And i a 
while we are justified in believing that the 
seeds we offer are unsurpassed in quality, still, for 
= the reasons aboye given, we do not (and our em- 2Qi5 Bn 
a Wa ployees also have strict orders never to do so), under any es VAD 
S circumstances, guarantee or warrant seeds. 
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