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



HENDERSON'S EASYJ3LANCHING CELERY. 



A Distinct and Valuable New Celery. 

 The Quickest and Easiest to Blanch. 



Makes a Most Attractive Bunch. 

 Thick Solid Stalks of Perfect Quality. 



(Also illustrated in colors on the back 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. 



offered it for the first time five years ago, claiming that it would prove 



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 blanch- 

 ing character without weakness, and good keeping quality after trenching. 



In the field the plant looks like Golden Dwarf; the only apparent 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 con- 

 dition, thus enabling 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 

 bettercondition 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 Celery 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., 60c, $2.25 oz., $8.00 J lb., $30.00 per lb. 



Oo i l i- 1.1 1 T^» 1 r\,,~f\Ui ,>**-. By only supplying the Planter direct we protect many customers 



Ur oeeClS are no longer Supplied thrOUgh UealerS. UUr WDjeCI. . wn0 have had other seeds foisted upon them as "Henderson's" 



