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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



Hendekson's Silver Self-Blanching Celery. 



'1 send yoit a pJiotograpli (sliou'n above) of my Silver Selj-Blanching Celery. 

 They averaged 2 pounds to the plant trimmed for market. All were blanched with 

 boards. 1 realized 31,400.00 from the 50 thousand." WALTER HA LE. 



Elma. Wash. 

 " 1 never liad such -fine Celery as your Silver Self -Blanching. I believe it to be 

 Hu best celery on earth. It is as early as White Plume and much better." 



GEORGE ENGLE. Sr.. Amsterdam. N. Y. 



Combines the grand qualities of the 

 two most popular celeries grown. 



The sturdy, solid habit of 

 Golden Self-Blanching. 



The exquisite color and earliness of 

 White Plume. 



This grand Celery is easily described 

 to Celery experts when we say that it is 

 a Golden Self-Blanching plant with 

 White Plume coloring; it possesses the 

 robust, sturdy, compact habit of Golden 

 Self-Blanching, the stalks being even 

 thicker, more solid and heavy, with 

 immense solid hearts and all brittle, 

 crisp and tender, free from string or 

 pithiness, and of delightfully rich flavor. 

 To these ideal qualities are added 

 the beautiful silvery-white coloring and 

 self-blanching characteristics of White 

 Plume, that is, the foliage is tipped and 

 variegated with white, while the heart, 

 inner stalks and leaves are naturally 

 white, and the plants may be easily and 

 quickly blanched by leaning boards on either side of the row, 

 without the necessity of banking up. This, combined with its 

 extreme earliness, will render Henderson's Silver Self-Blanching 

 perhaps the most valuable Celerj' for the market ever introduced. 

 {See cut.) Price, 15c. pkt., 60c. oz., $1.75 \ lb., $6.00 lb. 



HENDERSON'S PERFECTED WHITE PLUME CELERY. 



The Earliest Variety — can be Blanched in September. 



White Plume Celery was introduced by us 

 years ago, and is now more popular than ever. 

 There is no trouble in blanching White Plume 

 for banking up is not necessary when wanted 

 early. The peculiarity of this variety is that 

 the stalk, portions of inner leaves and heart are 

 white naturally, so that it can be blanched 

 in a few days by simply leaning boards 

 against it. Though one of the 

 most popular early sorts if grown 

 similar to late varieties it will be 

 found a very good keeper, which 

 is not generally known. Unfor- 

 tanately, the variety has always 

 had a tendency to revert to the 

 old green type, but persevering 

 selection for years enables us 

 now to offer an almost absolutely 

 pure stock. At the same time 

 we have been selecting for size 

 until we can now justly claim to 

 have the heaviest stock offered, 

 with broad, symmetrical ribs. 

 A strain so superior that we feel 

 justified in calling it " Hender- 

 son's Perfected White Plume." 

 (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt. 30c. 

 oz., 90c. i lb., $3.00 lb. 



■■/ raised your White Plume Celery last year 

 it was the finest I ever saw — 32 inches high and very 

 heavy. Some stalks I weighed when ready for mar- 

 ket, ana they tipped the scales at 2i pounds." 



J. D. BAMBERGER, Fort Dodge. Iowa. 



Elma. Wash.. Oct. 22, '09. 



" / have been awarded the Gold Medal for my exhibit of Per- 

 fected White Plume Celery {grown from your seeds) at the 

 A. Y. P. Expositionjust closed at Seattle, Wash. 



It may interest you to know that I purchased the seeds from 

 you." ' (Signed) J.H.HALE. 



Our new leaflet, Celery Culture for Home and 

 Market, including winter keeping, combating 

 diseases, etc., free to customers, if asked for. 



