NOVELTIES OF STERLING MERIT. 



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HENDERSON'S NEW BUSH 



LIMA BEAN. 



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Copyright, 1888, by Peter Henderson & Co 



Henderson's New Bush Lima Bean. 



This valuable vegetable novelty is now offered to the 

 public for the first time by ourselves and our friends, Peter 

 Henderson & Co., from whom we have obtained our supply 

 of the beans. 



Thousands have been deterred from cultivating the most 

 delicious of vegetables — the Lima Bean — from the great 

 trouble and expense of procuring poles on \\hich to grow 

 them. This is now a thing of the past, as the New Bush Lima 

 grows without the aid of stakes or poles, in compact bush 

 form, from fifteen to eighteen inches high, and produces 

 enormous crops of delicious Lima Beans, which can be 

 as easily gathered as the common garden bush beans. 



The New Bush Lima is at least two weeks earlier than any of 

 the climbing limas. This fact alone would stamp it as the 

 ■most valued novelty of recent years, but when in addition to 

 this we realize that it is a true bush bean, requiring no sup- 

 ports, some idea of its great value can be realized. 



It produces a continuous crop from the time it comes into 

 bearing until frost, and being enorittously productive, a 

 very small patch will keep a family supplied throughout the 

 season. Twelve packets will plant five rows, each fifty feet 

 long, which is ample for an ordinary family. 



The stock being quite limited, it is offered in sealed 

 .packets only, with the trade-mark label of the introducers. 

 'Prices: pkt., 25c.; 5pkts., $1.00; 12 pkts., 82.00. 



Parsley.-Market-Gardeners' Best. 



. Although we had 

 this very distinct and su- 

 perior sort for three 

 years, this is the first 

 season we have been 

 able to offer it in our 

 Catalogue, our entire 

 supply of seeds in former 

 seasons having been all 

 engaged ahead by our 

 local gardeners, who are 

 wild in their enthusiasm 

 over it, and justly so, as the best points yet obtained in par- 

 sley have certainly been reached in the Marketr-Gardeners' 

 Best. The plant is of very robust and free growth, and is 

 greatly improved by severe cutting. The leaves are large 

 and beautifully curled and of a very dark gn^een hue, and very 

 fine for either open ground or frame culture. iJ stands heat, 

 drought and cold better than any other sort we ever saw. The 

 ■whole appearance of the plant is very handsome and it cer- 

 "tainly is the parsley for the market gardener." Pkt., 5c.; oz., 

 15c.; % lb., 35o.; lb., 81.25. 



I^ALAMAZOO 

 Bl^OAD t I^IBBBD i ©BLBI^Y. 



This new variety, now offered for the first time, originated 

 with a prominent celery grower at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 

 and is pronounced by what few gardeners who have been 

 fortunate enough to obtain the seed : " The m^st perfect typ» 

 of Dwarf White Celery known." 



It is very distinct and handsome, of a beautiful cream- 

 white color throughout, attains a very large size, of quick 

 growth, stiff and close habit (as shown in our illustration), 

 is remarkably solid, crisp eating and fine fiavored. Ribs are 

 very broad, thickly and closely set, while by reason of its neat 

 growth and showy appearance, it is a specially valuable va- 

 riety for market. It is also a first-class keeper, remaining fit 

 for use as long as the Golden Dwarf and other good keeping 

 sorts. For the use of hotels, restaurants and other large 

 establishments it is superior to most other kinds, there 

 scarcely being any waste in dressing it for the table. It has 

 such a distinctive appearance in growth as to cause almost 

 every one seeing it to exclaim: "What celery is that?" 

 Long rows of it being as level and even as though each plant 

 had been shaped in the same mould. It is sure to take the 

 lead and market gardeners and private planters will make 

 no mistake in planting it largely. Pkt., 15c.; oz., 40c.; J^lb., 

 81.25; lb., 84.00. 



