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



HENDERSON'S 



G OLDEN D WARF C ELERY. 



EXTRA SELECTED STOCK. 

 The Best Winter Keeping Variety. 



HpHIS popular standard long-keeping variety 

 * was introduced by ourselves; it has a 

 large heart with solid, fleshy stalks, 

 first green, then golden, medium 

 tall. The broad, heavy stalks 

 are always solid to the centre 

 and when stored in banks, 

 trenches or Celery houses, the 

 hearts blanch to a beautiful 

 golden hue. In bunching there 

 is very little waste, for the 

 enormous hearts require but little 

 trimming. We confidently recom- 

 mend this variety to those who 

 grow Celery for winter use. 



This variety now constitutes 

 the great bulk of main crop 

 Celery that is produced in all 

 sections. In the great Celery- 

 growing districts of Kalamazoo 

 Mich., this variety is planted almost 

 to the exclusion of all others for main 

 crop. (See cut). Price, 30c. oz .,90c. 

 i lb., $3.00 lb. 



" You cannot speak loo highly of Henderson's Golden Dwarf 

 Celery. I raised the finest Celery I ever saw from your seed 

 of this variety; it is the Celery to grow for quantity; its quality, 

 too. is of tlie highest order." 



SOLON P. POWELL, Findlay, Ohio. 



Ienderson's Perfected WHITE PLUME Celery. 



THE EARLIEST VARIETY— CAN BE BLANCHED IN SEPTEMBER. 



\\fHITE PLUME CELERY was introduced by us years ago, and is now 

 more popular than ever. There is no trouble in blanching White 

 Plume for banking up is not necessary when wanted early. The 

 peculiarity of this variety is that the stalk, portions of inner leaves and heart are 

 white naturally, so that it can be blanched in a few days by simply leaning 

 boards against it. Though one of the most popular early sorts, if grown similar 

 to late varieties it will be found a very good keeper, which is not generally 

 known. Unfortunately, the variety has always had a tendency to revert to the 

 old green type, but persevering selection for years enables us now to offer an 

 almost absolutely pure stock. At the same time we have been selecting for size 

 until we can now justly claim to have the heaviest stock offered, with broad, 

 svmmetrical ribs. A strain so superior that we feel justified in calling it 

 "Henderson's Perfected White Plume." (See cut.) Price, 30c. oz., 90c. J lb., $3.00 lb. 



" After experience in Celery culture for many " I had tlie finest crop of Perfected White Plume 



years, your While Plume was tlie best we ever liad. Celery last fall from your seed that was ever raised 

 The stalks were white from root to leaf, and when 

 prepared for the table measured 23 inches. Every- 

 body pronounced it tlie most beautiful Celery they 

 ever saw." 



T. B. McILWAIN, Napier, Ontario Can. 



GIAiNT PASCAL CELERY. 



TTHIS is now one of the most popular varieties for winter use; properly stored, 

 ' it is perhaps the best keeper outside of the Red C eleries. Giant Pascal is of 

 vigorous, sturdy growth, making immensely thick and heavy stalks and large 

 heavy hearts, all remaining deep green until blanched by earthing up or being 

 stored for winter. It blanches to a cream-yellow, when the stalks are extremely 

 brittle, entirely stringless and exceedingly crisp ; in fact, some truckers complain 

 that it cannot be tied into attractive, marl etable bunches on that account, which, 

 although a disadvantage from their standpoint, indicates its high quality for the 

 private grower ; flavor surpassingly rich and nutty. Price, 20c. oz , 60c. J lb., 

 ^2 00 lb.' 



" Your Giant Pascal Celery took the town — or rather, tlie town took the Celery. It was considered 

 lite best in our market; large, solid, white and crisp.— CA LVIN SMITH, Market Gardener, Norwalk, Cl- 



in this section, and so acknowledged by nery one 

 who saw it; had plenty of stalks, pure white, tuo 

 feet long, crisp and of elegant flavor." 



O. G. BRIAN, Dykemans, N. Y. 



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