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



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. 



(ILLUSTRATED IN COLOKS ON THE FRONT COVEPO 



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. 



We offered it for the first time two years ago, claiming that it 

 would prove to be the 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 

 blanching character without weakness, and keeping longer and 

 better than any after trenching. 



In the field the plant looks like Golden Dwarf; the only appar- 

 ent 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 condition, thus en- 

 abling 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 

 condition 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 colored plate front cover of this catalogue.) Price, 20c. pkt., 3 pkts., 

 50c, $2.00 oz., $7.00 \ lb., $25.00 per lb. 



MAKKET GROWERS GIVE ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE 

 TO HENDERSON'S EASY^BLANCHING CELERY. 



" / consider Henderson's Easy Blanching 

 Celery the best of all Celeries ever introduced." 



E. H. TAPPEN, 

 February 1st, 1915. New Brunswick, N. J. 



" To-day I have put my Easy Blanching 

 Celery in the trench. I never had finer slalks. 

 Instead of setting up a 12-inch board as you 

 advised, I will have to set up two 11-inch boards 

 to reach to the top of my plants, and they are 

 in a shallow trench besides." 



CHARLES W. RUSH, 

 November 3, 1915. Lincoln, Neb. 



" I grew your Easy-blanching Celery last year 

 and found it not only the quickest and easiest to 

 blanch, but equal to the best later sorts in keeping 

 quality. 



"It should be put away in trenches as lale as 



possible (about November 20th' around here) and 



without 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." 



LOUIS KOELSCH, 



Oct. 14. 1914. West SideAve., Jersey City, N. J. 



" I 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 thebunch". 



GEO. DORN, 



Oct. 12. 1914. Boulevard, Jersey City, N. J. 



" Your Easy Blanching Celery is certainly 

 fine. Please send me 2 oz. more." 



G.G. POTTS, 

 August 6th, 1915. Kalamazoo, Mich. 



" The Celery I grew from Henderson's Easy 

 Blanching Celery seed is simply grand. Every 

 one that has looked it over, has almost gone 

 crazy over it." 



WM. S. BLACK, 



October 2, 1915. Fairfield, Ala. 



" / have pleasure in sending you photo of 



Henderson's Easy Blanching Celery taken on 



August 13th, 1915. The stalks trimmed weighed 



2\ and 3 lbs. apiece. This Celery fills a long 



fell want." 



HAMILTON BINDER, 



August 30th, 1915. Harrisburg, Pa. 



" I 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 recom- 

 mended. It is a good seller, and I am going to 

 plant much more of it next year." 



W. BRUNSWICK. 

 Oct. 6, 1914. Gray Road, Winton Place, Ohio 



FOR OTHER VARIETIES OF CELERY SEE PAGES 9 AND 26. 



