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



HENDERSON'S EASY^BLANCHING CELERY. 



A Distinct and Valuable New Celery. The Quickest and Easiest to Blanch. 

 Makes a Most Attractive Bunch. Thick Solid Stalks of Perfect Quality. 



(ILLUSTRATED IN COLOKS ON THE FRONT COVER. OF THIS CATALOGUE.) 



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 four 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 appar- 

 ent 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. 



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 condition, thus en- 

 abling 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 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., 50c, $2.25 oz., S8.00 \ lb., $30.00 per lb. 



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We have some of your Easy Blanching Celery 

 for early crops, and it is very fine stock. 



G. BUURMA &* SON, 

 July 14, 1916. Kalamazoo, Mich. 



If you have any more of the slock of Easy 

 Blanching Celery the same as I received last 

 year, please let me know and I can give you an 

 order for iK lbs. J. GLAS, 



R. R. 12, Box 35, 

 June 30, 1916. Kalamazoo, Mich. 



Your Easy Blanching Celery is certainly fine. 

 JOHN VAN VEER, 

 Feb. 16, 1916. Goshen, Ind. 



I got a y 2 lb. of your Easy Blanching Celery 

 last year and it is the best Celery I ever grew. 

 All my customers will use no other when that is 

 in the market. JAMES WILSON, 



60 Sarah Street, 

 March 27, 1916. Branlford, Ont. Can. 



I got some of your Easy Blanching Celery last 

 year and raised a thousand stalks. I gave some 

 friends some, and had hard work to keep enough 

 for myself till after the Holidays. It was so 

 crisp and tender. Everybody who had some 

 told me they never ate anything like it. I am 

 sending for some more seed for myself and two. 

 friends. W. D. LEISERING, 



231 Cemetery Street, 

 Jan. 31, 1916. Jersey Shore, Pa. 



I must tell you what delicious Celery we had 

 from the Easy Blanching Celery Seed. We 

 never raised such good celery before. 



J. L. REIFSNIDER, 

 Terrace Hill, 

 April 14, 1916. Westminster, Mi. 



You have a pretty nice picture of Henderson, s 

 Easy Blanching Celery, but it does not do justice 

 to some I had last season. 



M. S. FORSTER, 

 Feb. 29, 1916. Route 2, Greeley, O. 



FOR COMPLETE LIST OF OTHER VARIETIES OF CELERY SEE PAGE 11. 



