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COUNTERBALANCE 
Your Own Plot of Ground 
In the year just passed, owing partly to weather conditions, and partly 
to scarcity of labor, garden crops in many sections of the country were 
short and in some sections failures. 
vegetables were advanced to a degree that was heavily felt by the con- 
sumer and added very materially to the expense account of the family 
table, already swollen by the extravagant prices charged for meats and 
Ih 123 per cent. 
Increase 
in cost of 
Vegetable Foods 
Tables pre- 
pared by the 
N. Y. Journal of 
Commerce and 
Market Reports, 
issued in Octo- 
ber, show 
that wholesale 
prices for six 
principal vegetable 
foods, viz.: Beans, 
Turnips, Potatoes, 
Onions, Cabbages 
and Tomatoes, 
have increased on 
an average 123 per 
eent. over the 
normal prices: _ 
Tarnips, Cab- 
bages and Potatoes 
have increased 1m 
price fully 200 
per cent. 
other foodstuffs. 
Fresh vegetables are needed by every member of the family every 
day in the year, and if grown in the family garden instead of being 
purchased at thé<prevailing high prices at a store, constitute an 
inexpensive and very valuable supply of food. 
Owners or occupiers of garden plots thus have a counterweight 
to the increased cost of food supplies in their own hands. 
We ourselves are mighty pleased to record the fact that we 
have hundreds of thousands of customers scattered all over our 
big country who have been far-seeing enough to adopt this 
method of circumventing the high cost of living. As one of 
our customers aptly puts it in a letter we print on this page, 
“That high cost of living man never worries us.” 
If you are not already enrolled in our ever 
increasing army of customers we invite you 
to purchase a supply now of 
Henderson’s Tested Seeds 
and grow your own fresh vegetables on your 
own plot of ground. ; 
Make Your Garden Work Full Time 
and after reaping the first crops, sow seeds 
again in June, July and August. 
you can double the output of your garden and 
raise a host of good things for the table until 
frost ends garden operations. 
The secret of success with late plantings lies 
in sowing only early maturing varieties desig- 
nated in our catalogue as “‘early’’, and then 
in thinning out the plants as soon as they 
show above ground—instead of transplanting 
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PRODUCE) 
MORE — 
$125.00 worth 
of Good Food 
for $2.50, plus 
a Little Healthy 
Labor. 
“Henderson’s 
Seeds ast year 
brought vs won- 
derful luck. On 
our back lot we 
raised our sum- 
mer and winter 
supply of Toma- 
toes, Corn, Let- 
tuce, Beans, 
| Onions, Limas 
and Okra from 
the $2.50 worth 
of your seeds. 
Our garden will 
jigure in value to 
us $125.00. That 
high cost of 
living man 
never worries 
us.”” WILLARD 
DOWNS, 
Fredericksburg, 
Va. 
Consequently, prices for fresh 
By so doing 
—so that they receive no check in growth. 
OUR CATALOGUE OF 
“EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN” FOR 1920 
We have much pleasure in presenting on the front cover of this catalogue 
another of our pictures illustrating Famous American Gardens. This is the 
eighth in the series and we are well pleased to know that they are so much 
appreciated by our large and ever growing circle of friends. The picture 
shows the gardens of the White House when the beautiful Dolly Madison 
reigned as mistress and presided over the household of President Madison. 
The picture of Dolly Madison here presented was sketched from an original 
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City by an artist com- 
missioned by us for this work. 
- On the back cover we show a picture which needs no explanation. It not 
only draws attention to the large number of varieties of edible vegetables 
which have been improved by our house, and made available to gardeners all 
over the country, but in its combination of flower garden and vegetable 
garden, also emphasizes the idea that “‘things of beauty are a joy forever’’ 
and now that peace has once more come to our land we shall again crave 
and turn to beautiful and humanizing things. These were of necessity 
neglected during the stern and strenuous period of the war, and although the 
necessity for more and still more food production still exists, yet we think 
everybody will ‘‘brighten a corner’ of their gardens with spring and summer 
flowers this year. On pages 81 to 149 we offer a complete assortment of 
Flower Seeds, Flower Bulbs and Flower Roots, embracing all the latest pro« 
ductions of the growers and hybridizers of America. Our slogan for this yearis 
HENDERSON’S FLOWERS FOR AMERICAN GARDENS 
and we look for a wider distribution than ever before. 
PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35 and 37 Cortlandt Street, NEW YORK, N. Y. 
