10 PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 
HENDERSONS EASY-BLANCHING CELERY. 
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HENDERSON'S 
EASY-BLANCHING 
CELERY 
A DISTINCT AND VALUABLE NEW CELERY. 
THE QUICKEST AND EASIEST TO BLANCH. 
THE SUREST AND LONGEST TO KEEP. 
Thick Solid Stalks of Perfect Quality. Makes a Most Attractive Bunch. 
We offered this variety for the first time last year, claiming that it would 
prove to be the pioneer of anewclass. 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 inithe 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 blanching character without 
weakness, and keeping longer and better than any 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. Itis only when the blanching process is begun that its ‘‘Easy-Blanching”’ 
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 comer 
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 better condi- 
tion 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 
has been grown with remarkable success, producing just as good crops as ever, while 
right alongside, the Self-Blanching sorts have failed almost completely. 
(See cut.) Price, 20c. pkt., 3 pkts:, 50c., $2.25 oz., $8.00 14 lb. 
MARKET GROWERS PRAISE HENDERSON’S EASY-BLANCHING CELERY. 
““T have been growing Celery for market for forty years, and never knew of any other kind that would 
blanch up so quickly as Easy-blanching. It makes a big heart and looks good in the bunch.’ 
Oct. 12, 1914. GEO. DORN, Boulevard, Jersey City, N. J. 
“We like your Easy-blanching Celery very much. Will plont. Tors of it this year. Some of our 
customers said it was the best Celery they ever ate.’ . GUSTAFSON, Batavia, Ill. 
““T purchased some Easy-blanching Celery from you last year on a trial and am marketing it now. 
The gardeners here are all surprised at this variety blanching so easily and so quickly. It is a fine 
stock, the best I ever saw, and is better blanched to-day than the Self-blanching , and furthermore, has 
not one hollow or soft stalk in the whole crop. The name Easy-blanching fits it very well, and as far 
as I can see, this variety can be highly recommended. It is a good seller, and I am going to plant much 
more of it next year.” 
Oct. 6, 1914. W. BRUNSWICK, Gray Road, Winton Place, Ohto 
“TI grew your Easy-blanching Celery last year, and found it not only the quickest and eastest to 
blanch, but equal to the best later sorts in keeping quality. 
“It should be put away in trenches as late as possible (about November 20th around here) and with- 
out blanching in the field. I just throw enough soil to the row to give the plants an upright growth, to 
make it easier to handle when trenching. In this way it will keep better than any other sort I ever grew.” 
Oct. 14, 1914. LOUIS KOELSCH, West Side Ave., Jersey City, N.J. 
FOR OTHER VARIETIES OF CELERY SEE PAGES 9 AND 26. 
