30 EVEJRYTHraQ FOR TIE GARDEN -Vegetable Seed© 



Two World - Famous Celeries THE NEW and THE OLD 



INTRODUCED BY PETER HENDERSON & CO. 



(Illustrated in colors on the opposite page.) 



THE FAMOUS NEW VARIETY 



Henderson's Easy - Blanching Celery 



GAINING IN POPULAR FAVOR RY LEAPS AND ROUNDS 



Emphatically Distinct from Any Other Sort. 

 Excels All Late Sorts in Long - Keeping Quality. 



The Easiest and Quickest to Rlanch. 



The Earliest and the Latest in One Row. 



This splendid Celery was named and introduced by us. It 

 has already taken rank with other vegetables we have intro- 

 duced, many of which are the standard of merit and have achieved 

 a world-wide reputation. The original stock has been improved 

 under our watchful care and it is today as near perfection as 

 nature can make it. 



Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery excels in the qualities 

 that give Self-Blanching Celeries their value; it bleaches earlier 

 and quicker than any of this class. It is the longest keeping 

 variety grown (if put away green), excelling in this respect every 

 other sort It has proved to be among the most valuable addi- 

 tions we have made to the vegetable gardens of the world, and 

 fit to take rank with the many famous varieties of vegetables 

 with which our name is associated. 



Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery enables the market 

 grower to command the market over the entire season, and so 

 easily is it grown, that the amateur can produce Celery equal in 

 quality to that which formerly could be grown only by skilled 

 men equipped with years of experience. 



The plant is of medium height, of great vigor — having thick 

 rather than broad stalks, with shallow ribs. The leaves are 

 slightly, but densely crumpled, distinguishing it from any other 

 variety. Its quality is superb. 



The stalks are tender and brittle, and the flavor extremely 

 spicy and aromatic. (Sec colored illustration on opposite page.) 



Price, 20c. pkt., 3 pkts. for 50c, 7 pkts. for $1.00, $2.60 oz., 

 $9.00 H lb. 



WE COULD FILL PAGES WITH LETTERS PRAISING HENDERSON'S EA.SY-BLA.NCHING 



"Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery is the best kind of Cilery I erer raised 

 and I have tried many different kinds." 



FRANK B. EXCEL. 

 Mar. 11, 1917. 234 West Main St.. Amsterdam. X. Y. 



"Two years ago I ordered a small package of Henderson's Easy-Blanching 

 Celery and made a grand success with it. A score of people visited my place 

 and I could have sold an acre of it. 

 April 14, 1917. C. H. CHAI'IX, Caldwell, Kans. 



"Desire to say I was most highly pleased with the Easy-Blanching Celery." 

 Mar. 6. 1917. McBRIDE HOLT. 2nd. Graham. X. C. 



" I tried out Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celtry last season Here in the Santa 

 Clara Valley, under the most adverse conditions, and find it the best of several 

 varieties I have raised." 

 Jan. 16, 1917. C. SI. RA THBUX. Los Calos. Cat. 



"Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery was grand. Took it to our Fair 

 and won first prize. Everycne thought it grand. It never got hollow nor did 

 it rot. We kept it in the garden until January 7th when 1 used the last of it.'' 

 Mar. 1, 1917. Sirs. X. E. KLINE, R. F. D. -', Box 38, Knox. Pa 



" We have been taking your Easy-Blanching Celery to market since the middle 

 of July and put out between 12 and 13 thousand plants." 

 Aug. 29, 1917. Miss CATHERIXE B. WELSH. York, Pa. 



"I wish to say a word in favor of Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery. It 

 is decidedly the finest that I have ever tried and, at this date, is still keeping fine. 

 We are using it nearly every day and all who have tasted it say that it is the best." 

 Feb. 12, 1917. W. HORACE LACKEY, Lexington, la. 



"A word in praise of Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery — / have the finest 

 lot of celery I have ever grown. It certainly is tender and crisp, and it is such a 

 large celery." 



EVAX SI. CIBSOX, 

 Jan. 1, 1917. Gardener to R. W. Scott, Esq., Germantown, Pa. 



"I am just selling the last pit of your Easy-Blanching Celery now and want 

 to say it is fine, Ike best keeper I have ever tried. It has been in the pit over five 

 months and has not rotted at all." 

 Mar. 26, 1917. E. E. STEARXS, Wabasha, Minn. 



"Sly experience with Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery has been in 

 trenches. Easy-Blanching has proved to be the best keeper of all tht seven 

 varieties I grew last season. Easy-Blanching kept and was in first-class con- 

 dition on Good Friday, and it was very late this year. I intend to grow lots of 

 Easy-Blanching this season." 

 Jan. 1, 1917. JAMES IVILSON, 60 Sarah St., Branlford, Oni. 



" In regard to Henderson's Easy-Blanching Celery we are selling about 30 

 dozen of flat bunches per week. My customers want it on account of its nutty 

 llavor, in preference to the yellow." 

 Feb. 12, 1917. E. II . TAPPEX, Xew Brunswick, N. J. 



"I now take pleasure in telling you of my experience with Henderson's Easy- 

 Blanching Celery. I have just finished on the 27th of January and it was 

 keeping fine, and I think it would keep six weeks longer if I wanted to keep it." 

 Feb. 2, 1917. SIDXEY WRIGHT, Kingston, Pa. 



THE FAMOUS OLD VARIETY 



Henderson's Perfected White Plume Celery 



THE MOST WIDELY KNOWN AND POPULAR VARIETY EVER INTRODUCED 



BLANCHES QUICKLY AND THOROUGHLY. MAY BE USED EARLY IN SEPTEMBEB. 



This is the oldest of the self-blanching sorts, and is still immensely popular. It is by far the most attractive of all in appear- 

 ance, and grows so easily that it should find a place in every garden. Under ordinary conditions, and if started early, it may be 

 ready to blanch early in September, and be fit for use a few days later. Its slim, delicately brittle stalks, surmounted with their 

 graceful, ornamental foliage, are unsurpassed from a decorative standpoint, while its delicious flavor and crisp tenderness captivate 

 the most fastidious appetite. (See colored illustration on opposite page). Price, 10c. pkt., 75c. oz., $2.00 y± lb., $7.00 lb. 



"Our season is short, and only early maturing plants really have a chance. 

 We have been very successful in raising Henderson's White Plume Celery. 

 We have stalks eighteen inches long, full, and bleached to the very tips." 



Mrs. A. S. KEMPER. Deering, Alaska. 

 "I have taken first premium at York County Fair for two years past with 

 your Celery (White Plume)." 



G. FAHS, R. F. D. No. 9. York. Pa. 

 "We found Henderson's White Plume Celery perfect in germinating. We 

 have grown it for years." 



JACOB NEY, Jr., Siege. Cal. 

 " The Celery grown from seed I bought from you last spring is admired by 

 all who have seen and eaten of it. They claim it is the best they have ever eaten." 

 Miss BELLE BODDIE, Mouniville, Ga. 

 " We grew your White Plume Celery last year, and it was certainly fine. 

 We have used your seeds for the past 20 years and have always found them good." 

 PETER de LOOFF & CO., Kalamazoo, Slich. 



" I had the fined crop of Henderson's White Plume-Celery last fall ever raised 

 in this section, and so acknowledged by everyone who saw it. Had plenty of 

 stalks, pure while, two feel long, crisp and elegant." 



O. G. BRIAN. Dykmans, N. Y. 

 "After experience in Celery culture for many years, your White Plume 

 Celery was the best we ever had. The stalks were white from root to leaf, and 

 when prepared for the table measured twenty-three inches. Everybody said it 

 was the most beautiful Celery they ever saw." 



T. B. SIcILWAIN, Napier, Ont., Can. 

 "Have always been told that the White Plume Celery was not a good keeping 

 variety. We used the last of ours on April 2d and it was in fine condition; 

 flavor as fine as ever. Raised from seed purchased from you last year." 



Sliss KATHERINE GLENN, Linesville, Pa. 

 " Your White Plume Celery that I had last season was good. I do not think 

 there were over one hundred plants in two acres that went to seed." 



WILSON BURR, Broadalbin, X. Y. 



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