PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK. 



Flat Cabbage fit for Market. 

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 Will Average about 

 FORTY to the Crate. 



"^•OENDERSON'S "EARLY SPRING." 



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A ROUND FLAT-HEADED EXTRA EARLY. 



Coming in with the Wakefield and yielding one-third more than any other 



Extra Early. 

 Every head as uniform as if moulded, and remarkably solid even when young. 

 Few and small outside leaves. Small veins. Fine texture and delicate flavor. 



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In our catalogue for 1893 we illustrated " Our Honor Arch." composed of our valuable introductions. The keystone to this arch was that 

 well-known specialty, Hendebson's Early Summer Cabbaoe. We then cherished no idea that so soon as 1."95 we should have a variety which 

 would not only equal, but even exceed it in value. Such, however, is the claim we make for Henderson's Early Spring Cabbage. 

 Our patrons, remembering that we have introduced such peerless varieties as Early Jersey Wakefield, Early Summer. Succession, and 

 Autumn King, will agree that we have done much to improve this valuable vegetable. As twenty years ago we introduced Henderson's 

 Early Summer Cabbage, fully convinced that it would achieve the immediate and permanent popularity it deserved, so now. with no 

 less confidence, we call attention to this variety, being just as fully assured that it will prove the most valuable early Cabbage ever 

 introduced We say it advisedly and confidently, our opinion having been formed after unusuallv careful, patient and critical tests. The 

 variety is of early Summer type but about one-fifth smaller, having only four or five outside leaves, and these so small, and growing 

 so near to the head, that it may be successfully planted twenty inches apart, about fourteen thousand plants to the acre, as close as 

 any variety we know of. But it's great value lies in the fact that it is the only first Early FLAT Cabbage. It possesses wonderful 

 uniformity in shape, being round, slightly flattened at top of head. The veining of the leaves is particularly fine, in which respect it shows its 

 finely bred character, being entirely free from any coarseness whatever. There is no Cabbage we know of having a more solid head; but added 

 to this, it has the peculiarity of heading firmly at an early stage in its growth, so that the finest Cabbage, though small, can be obtained long 

 before it has attained its mature size. It is entirely free from any rankness of flavorsuch as spoils many well-known Cabbages. (See cut.) Price, 

 15c. per pkt. ; $1.00 per oz. ; $3.0U per i lb. ; $10.U0 per lb. 



Those who have Grown ^ ir -^j- 



HENDERSON'S EARLY SPRING CABBAGE O A 1 I 



"We have finished cutting the new Early Spring Cabbage and must say that it is the 

 earliest of al 1 flat cabbages known to us Rvery plant made a oertect head and a good 

 size. averaging ihiny-two heads to the cra'e. We set th - cabbage th- same d star.ee 

 apart as the Early Summer. This was wrong, for it has very 1-ttle foliage and can be 

 grown as close as the (narleston Wakefield / <?., about h.soo pi ints 10 the acre It 

 will make cue-thiid more ot a crop and be jusc as early as the Wakefield. It has a 

 double advantage for ihis section, being early and flat." 



Marin's Point. S. C. GERATY & TOWI.ES. 



"Your Early Spring Cabbage is all you cairn, the verv best verv early cabbage 1 

 have planted i i twenty vears, every one heading fine, notwithstanding 'hey were cut 

 down with the late frost. All ray customers say. 'bring me some more earlv spring 

 cabbage.' " Gait, Ont., THUS. EGERTON, 



At our Experimental Farm at Hackensack, N. J., we are favred by the visi's of 

 many of our Hortcultural friends; all who saw our Early Spring Cabbage during its 

 season, pronounced it as the finest eaKy variety lhev had ever seen. A icpresentative 

 from the house of Messrs. W. W. Rawson & Co , lloslon (which by the way isnot the 

 lioston Seed House referred to in connection with liig lioston Lettuce, page 61. re- 

 cently visited our trial grounds and informed us that Mr. W.W. Rawson. after gro«i~g 

 it. Cons dered this the finest and best introduction in rabba*e in recent yeais. and 

 remarked that he will piant his entire first crop of this variety, no matter how high the 

 price may be. 



