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



HENDERSON'S EASYJBLANCHING CELERY. 



A Distinct and Valuable New Celery. 

 The Quickest and Easiest to Blanch. 



Makes a Most Attractive Bunch. 

 Thick Solid Stalks of Perfect Quality. 



This splendid Celery was named and introduced by us. The 

 original stock has been improved under our watchful care and 

 now it is as near perfection as nature can make it. Many of 

 the vegetables introduced and named by us have achieved a 

 world wide reputation and are the recognized standards of 

 merit. This Celery we feel certain will take rank with the best 

 of our introductions. 



We offered it for the first time six years ago, claiming that it 

 would prove to be the pioneer of a new class. We were so sure 

 of its blanching value that we gave it the name of Easy-Blanching. 



Further experience not only confirms our opinion that it is the 

 quickest and easiest Celery to blanch for early market, but has 

 also convinced us that it keeps better in the trench than any other, 

 while the amount of work required to fit it for putting away is 

 less than is needed for the standard sorts. This means that Easy- 

 Blanching has the most valuable characteristics of the two classes 

 of Celery, with none of their defects, having perfect blanching 

 character without weakness, and good keeping quality after trenching. 



In the field the plant looks like Golden Dwarf; the only apparent difference is 

 a slight yellow tinge, which shows in the small but dense crumpling of the 

 leaves. It is not strictly self blanching, for if left to grow naturally it remains 

 green. It is only when the blanching process is begun that its " Easy-Blanch- 

 ing " quality becomes apparent. (See engraving.) 



THE METHOD OF BLANCHING is just the same as for ordinary sorts. 

 When ready to market it has a most attractive appearance, mainly because of 

 the large, full colored heart. After blanching it remains longer in good con- 

 dition, thus enabling the grower to market it at his convenience. 



TO PREPARE IT FOR TRENCHING, all the work needed is to throw a 

 little soil up to the row, just enough to give the stalks an upright growth, and 

 not enough to start blanching. It should be put away as late as possible. 

 Treated thus, it keeps better, and comes out of the trench with less rot and in 

 better condition than any standard Winter sort. 



There are some areas in the vicinity of New York that formerly produced good 

 crops of Self-Blanching Celery, but in late years have failed to do so on account 

 of the land becoming worn out, or "Celery sick." On such land as this, Easy- 

 Blanching Celery has been grown with remarkable success, producing just as good 

 crops as ever, while right alongside, the Self-Blanching sorts have failed almost 

 completely. 



Price, 20c. pkt., 3 pkts., 60c, $2.26 oz., $8.00 J lb., $30.00 per lb. 



Market Growers in All Parts of the United States 

 Give Enthusiastic Praise to 



HENDERSON'S EASY^BLANCHING CELERY. 



"Henderson's Easy Blanching Celery is the best Celery by far offered to the trade to-day. This is 

 my opinion/' W. J. SHAW. Lexington, Va. 



"We have been taking Henderson's Easy Blanching Celery to market since the middle of July and 

 hate put out between twelve and thirteen thousand plants." 



CATHERINE B. WELCH. York, Pa. 



''I have never kept Easy Blanching Celery later than Christmas. It kept so well up to Christmas 

 this year for me that I am sure that the same planting of Celery would have kept until the miadle 

 of January. This was my first Celery planted and J don't se^ any reason why Easy Blanching Ceiers 

 would not keep as long as any other Celery if it were planted as late as we plant our late keeping 

 Celery." PAUL W. GOSSLER, Busllelon. Pa. 



"Beg to advise that I have received the Celery seed all O K and also wish to state that I have tried 

 three different slocks of Easy Blanching Celery last year and found your Cdery to be .he best of the three. 



"The Celery that we ran in Ceiery boards to blanch could not be any nicer. In fact better than we 

 ever raised before. I have some of your Easy Blanching in the trenches now and it is in good con- 

 dition. Has not start*, to decay yet." JAMES DAVIES. Kingston. Pa. 



"I would state that this Fall I trenched some fifty thousand plants of your Easy Blanching variety of 

 Celery and did not lose an appreciable quantity. I grew the plants six inches apart tn the row, in 

 rows 20 inches apart, heavily mulched with manure and under the Skinner System of irrigation, 

 under this culture the plants covered the ground solidly by Fall and the hearts had already become well 

 blanched, large and tender. This allowed us, by trenching a little early, to sell large, well blanched 

 stalks a week before Christmas and yet what was trenched nearer the time of dangerous frosts was 

 tn firs: class condition Feb. 1st. 



I have stocked up with the seed in order to satisfy, during the coming year, the steady and growing 

 demand that I found myseif unable to cope with this year. 



HOWARD E. INGHAM. Jennings Rd., Cleveland, O. 



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