PETER HENDERSON &JDO. — NEW YORK. 



Improved New York Spineless. 



The New York Improved Egg Plant has been the standard 

 variety for years, but this selection is vastly superior in every re- 

 spect. The habit of the plant is low and branching, and is quite 

 free from spines both on the plant and calyx of the Egg. The 

 fruits are of the largest size and perfect form and from eight to ten 

 are produced on a plaut. Another most valuable feature of this 

 Egg Plant is its extreme earliness. maturing its fruit at least two 

 weeks ahead of the old variety. The splendid quality and great 

 productiveness of this selection will greatly increase the popularity 

 of this delicious vegetable. (See cut.) 10c. perpkt. ; 40c. per oz. : 

 $1.00 peri lb. : $3.75 per lb. 



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LETTUCE "BIG 10STOH. 



This variety is identical in color shape and general appear- 

 ance with the famous Boston Market Lettuce, but is double tlu siz . 

 It is about one week later in manning but its solidity and greater 

 size of head will make it a most valuable sort. A most desirable 

 variety either for forcing in cold frames or open ground planting. 

 This variety, though similar in appearance, is quite distinct 

 from Boston Market, and being much larger should not be forced 

 in such high temperature by 15 to 20 degrees as the Boston Market or other small forcing varieties. The " Big Boston " is sure to be wanted by 

 market gardeners and truckers, because it always produces large, solid salable heads, and it will commend itself to amateurs because it heads up 

 well at all seasons of the year and is of crisp tender quality. {See cut.) 10c. pkt.; 25c. oz.; 60c. % lb. §2.00 lb. 



I IYI ^O R T A N TT. — When we first placed the BIG BOSTON LETTUCE on the market, many competing houses soon offered what 

 they thought was the same "variety, under the names of "Large Boston" ''Improved Boston Market,' 1 '' etc., and a Boston seed house in their catalogue 

 for 1892, went so far as to say, that it was identical with Hittinger's "Belmont." They have now admitted their error to us over-^heir signature. 

 A Philadelphia seed house claiming to do the largest mail trade, etc., copied tlie same description of 'this Lettuce in its entirety, and without even 

 having tested it for themselves, which was something very unusual, considering that their trial ground is extensive and departmentized. 'J hey too. 

 have retraeted in writing what they said in their catalogue regarding it. We mention all this here to put market gardeners on their guard, because 

 we feel sure that this same claim for Big Boston being synonymous with other varieties has led to a great deal of confusion and loss os to how Big 

 Boston should be forced — which should be at a lower temperature than tlie Boston Market, or any of its selections. 



The Henderson Big Boston Lettuce has been the largest and nicest looking on this market, measuring about nine and twelve inches in diameier and well headed 



JOS. ROETTE1S, Paducah, N. Y. 



THE BEST 



44 GOLDEN QUEEN." A very desirable small early variety of a most pleasing golden yellow color, that shade which is always most 

 desirable in Lettuce. It is of dwarf, compact growth and one of the most deceptive varieties that we have ever seen, as at first glance it seems to 

 be a veritable miniature Lettuce ; but it forms all solid heads with little or no waste, so that there is really more to it than in many Lettuces 

 double the size. This variety will prove equally valuable for forcing in greenhouses or frames, or out-door use, but if grown in the open ground 

 it should be sown early in the season. It is very crisp, tender and juicy, and of particularly delicate flavor even when grown in the open 

 ground, resembling in its tender quality the Boston Market, when that variety is forced with artificial heat under glass. 10c. per pkt. ; 20c. per 

 oz. ; 50c per I lb. ; $1.50 per lb. 



EARLY CURLED SIMPSON. — Properly speaking it does not head, but forms a close compact mass of leaves of a yellowish 

 shade of green, which are quite curly. This peculiarity enables it to mature quicker than varieties that form firm heads, and gives it a great de- 

 sideratum — earliness. It is the kind that is planted in cold frames extensively, and is also largely grown as an early open air variety between a 

 crop. 5c per pkt. ; 15c. per oz. ; 35c. per $ lb.: $1.00 per lb. 



BOSTON MARKET.-Thisis an improved 

 variety of the Tennis Ball, and attains a large size. It 

 grows very compact, is white and crisp, and is one of the 

 best varieties for forcing and for cold frames. 5c. per 



pkt. ; 20e. per oz ; 50c. per i lb. ; $1 50 per lb. 



TENNIS-BALL BLACK-SEEDED — 



A favorite forcing variety, and, as the name indicates, 



forming a hard head. It makes but few outer leaves, 



and for this reason can be planted quite closely under 



glass — from six to seven inches apart. It is the variety 



so largely used in our hot beds and forcing pits, and in 



greenhouses. 5c. per pkt.; 15c. peroz.; 35c. per i lb. ; 



$1.00 per lb. 



REICHNER'S EARLY WHITE 



BUTTER LETTUCE.— The introducer's des- 

 cribe it as follows — This very excellent new variety is the 



result of several years' selection from the Philadelphia 



Early White Cabbage, made by the Reichners, who are 



among the best market gardeners around Philadelphia It 



is a splendid forcing lettuce; also for sowing in the fall in 



open ground, and for planting on ridges, being entirely 



hardy in the South, and requiring only a slight protection 



in the North; produces fine, large, white, solid heads, of 



superb quality, and is remarkably early. Southern ship- 

 pers will find this variety much superior to the Old Royal 



Summer Cabbage for their purpose. No market grower, 



either North or South, can afford to be without this valu- 

 able variety. 5c. pkt ; 20c. oz. ; 50c. J lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



BIG BOSTON LETTUCE. 



