HENDERSON'S veI-eXe SEEDS 



Vegetable Gardening is a profitable and pleasurable occupation. There is no food in all the world 



that can compare with the fresh vegetables from your own garden 



Our Prices Have Been Reduced to the Lowest Point, Consistent 



with the Production of Quality Seeds 



The varieties of vegetable seeds offered on this and the following pages are the highest developments in their respective classes and have 

 by rigid tests, as required for the Henderson Standard of Excellence, proven their worth to occupy space in this catalog. Many of them 

 are varieties that were originated by us during the ninety-one years of our existence, and which today are household words throughout 

 the vast expanse of this great land. 



It has always been our aim to describe all of our offerings accurately and truthfully, which in many cases has necessitated a rather 

 long description. This year we have reduced them, so that the outstanding facts concerning a variety may be seen at a glance. 



A Suggested Plan That Will Keep the Qarden Busy Producing 

 Delicious Vegetables from Early Summer to Late Fall 



The "Garden Plan" suggested below, for a garden about 60 x 100 feet or larger, has been arranged with a view to keep every foot of ground 

 busy and productive spring, summer and autumn, thereby doubling the usual output and extending the fresh vegetable season to maximum 

 limits. The following features may be noted: suitable succession crops to follow first crops in the same row; leaf or above ground crops to suc- 

 ceed root or below ground crops and vice versa; "brassicas" (Cabbage and Turnip families) not on the same ground in succession; "legumes" 

 (Peas and Beans) (nitrogen gatherers) interspersed throughout the garden to benefit the soil ; tall growing crops on north or west side of garden 

 so as not to shade dwarfer growing vegetables; winter roots remaining in ground are in outside row; rows running lengthwise of the garden for 

 ease and rapidity of cultivation with a wheel hoe, described on page 126. 



West side of garden preferably — 'north if necessary — '100 feet or more in length 



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Spring and Summer Vegetables 



. Beans, Pole and Lima 



.Tomatoes set out from hotbed 



.Corn, Sweet, late or main crop var. . 



" mid-season varieties. . . 



* " early varieties 



.Peas, late or main crop varieties. . . 



. " early and mid-season varieties 



. Potatoes, early varieties 



. Beans, Dwarf or Bush varieties. . . . 



. Cabbage and Cauliflower 



. Lettuce and Endive 



.Kohl Rabi, J^ row; Swiss Chard. . . 



.Carrot and Turnip, early varieties. 



.Radish and Mustard and Cress. . . . 



. Onion Sets 



. Onions from seed 



. Beets, early varieties 



. Spinach 



.Squash, bush and M row Okra 



. Cucumbers and Musk Melon . 

 . Egg Plant and Peppers 



( Beans, Bush Lima, 2-3 row 1 



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. . Leek and Parsley 



. . Parsnip, Salsify and Witloof 



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Pumpkin and Vine Squash planted 

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Ruta Baga and Late Turnips 



Celery from seedbed 



Sweet Corn, early varieties 



Cabbage and Cauliflower from seedbed 



Beans, Dwarf or Bush varieties 



Beets for fall and winter use 



Lettuce and Endive 



I Chinese Cabbage and Florence Fen- 

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Spinach for early winter 



Spinach for fall use 



Carrots 2 i row; winter Radish 



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Same crop bears until frost 



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Make Your Garden Work Full Time — Grow Vegetables for Fall and Winter 



With proper management, fresh vegetables may be had from the garden almost from the beginning till the end of the year. 

 The dates below are for the latitude of New York. 



Varieties and Last Date for Sowing 

 Brussels Sprouts, up to Collards, July 5th. 



Corn Salad, Aug. 10th. 



Corn, Sweet, July 5th. 



Cress, Garden, Sept. 1st. 



Cress, Water, Aug. 1st. 



Cucumber, July \5th. 



Endive, Aug. 1st. 



Kale, Aug. 1st. 



Asparagus Roots, Plant 

 Early Spring and up to 

 Nov. 15th. 



Beans, Lima, June 5th. 



Beans, Dwarf or Bush, 

 until Aug. 1st. 



Beets, Aug. 15th. 



Broccoli, up to June 15th. 



June (in seed bed). 

 Cabbage, June 15th. 

 Carrot, Aug. 15th. 

 Cauliflower, June 15lh. 

 Celery, April 10th. 

 Chinese Cabbage, Aug. 

 10th. 



Kohl-Rabi, July 15lh. 

 Lettuce, Aug. 15th. 

 Mustard, Aug. 15th. 

 Parsley, Aug. 1st. 

 Parsnip, May 1st. 

 Peas, July 15th. 

 Pumpkin, to June. 



Radish, Spring, until 



Sept. 

 Radish, Winter, to Aug. 

 Ruta Baga, to June. 

 Spinach, Sept. 15th. 

 Swiss Chard, Aug. 1st. 

 Turnip, Aug. 1st. 



1847-1938. Ninety-one years of successful Seed Service. PETER HENDERSON CO., 35 Cortlandt Street, New York, N. Y. 



