PETER HENDERSON & CO —INTRODUCTORY. 



Uo pVlTJ 0* — ^° charge is made for boxes, baskets or packing, and all goods are delivered at express or 

 J. UiUru.J.i.g,, freight offices in New York free of charge Our system of packing is so complete that we now 

 ship every day, no matter how cold or how hot the weather may be, and during the season of 1882 we averaged 

 only one complaint in about every four hundred orders. 



"W"P (tII fl TR Tl t PP Safe deliver >' of aU Plants or Seeds when sent by mail or express, but all Plants sent 

 \J U UaiUillUDO by freight are entirely at the risk of the purchaser. Complaints, however, must be 

 made at once on receipt of goods. We will not hold to our guarantee if, when a month after, from inattention or 

 other causes, Plants have failed, and complaint is then made. 



All^WPTQ tfi f!m v PPQ"nnTirlP"ntQ — We are in receipt of hundreds of letters annually, asking 

 iLilfcWtflb IU UUll«bpUIiUbIlUb. for in f ormat ion on subjects connected with Horticulture 

 These we shall always be pleased to answer, provided that each question is put clearly by itself, leaving a suffi- 

 cient blank space beneath the question for our answer. This plan not only saves us time, but the answer is more 

 intelligible to the party in want of the information ; and unless inquiries are so put, we shall not consider ourselves 

 required to reply, as we have no time to read long letters. 



Mn"P fJ-PTflPTIQ! ITI TPTOPTT PIlfTT are within forty minutes' time, by Ferry Boat and Horse 

 UU.1 UdlUClib 111 tlClfcCy UlU^ cars from our Seed Stores, 35 and 37 Cortlandt Street, New 

 \ork, where a card with plain directions of " How to reach the Nursery" will be given to any one applying, 



Parties wishing to see Peter Henderson personally will find him at the Greenhouses till 12 M., and at his 

 office in New Yoik from I to 3 P. M. 



About Warranting Seeds -^^s^ \7^*£1tf&&£ga5 « 



do not, and our employees have strict orders never to do so in any case. Though well believing that the seeds we 

 offer are unsurpassed in quality, yet our practical experience of many years as Market Gardeners and Florists has 

 well assured us of the fact that crops may fail, no matter how fresh or pure the seed sown to produce them may 

 be. Failure of germination of Seed may be produced from causes that the utmost care from the most experienced 

 cultivators cannot control, and the maturing of crops also repeatedly fail, so as to be a total loss, from causes that 

 no human power can avert. Hence, to guarantee Seeds to invariably produce a perfect crop would be little short 

 of quackery. 



"PppTTl linTl Q — On a 'l 0I "ders from this catalogue to the amount of $5.00 and upwards (in one order), we 

 J. 1 O 111 i U III Ui w ji] seno > without charge a copy of Peter Henderson's "Horticultural Essays" value 75 

 cents, or when the order is to the extent of $10.00 and upwards, purchasers' choice of any one of Peter Henderson's 

 three books, " Gardening for Profit," " Practical Floriculture," or" Gardening for Pleasure," the 

 retail price of which is $'-50 each, and when the order amounts to $20.00 and upwards, we will send the buyer 

 his choice of any twoof the above three books, or, instead, a copy of our latest work, " Henderson's HANDBOOK 

 OF Plants," the value of which is $3.00, but it is understood that the book or books desired must be selected at 

 the time of ordering ; this last condition is imperative, and under no circumstances can we deviate from it. When 

 books are not wanted, their value may be selected in goods at list rates. 



Of the Books above referred to, Horticultural Essays, written last spring, details our latest experi- 

 ence on the following subjects : 



Greenhouse Structures and Modes of Heating- Hot-beds. Manures and their Modes of Appli- 

 cation. Strawberry Culture. Celery Growing and Storing for Winter. Rose Growing, for 

 Winter and Summer Flowers. Root Crops for Farm Stock. Market Gardens 

 Around New York. Popular Errors and Scientific Dogmas in Horticul- 

 ture. Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting. Humbugs 

 in Horticulture. Draining. 

 Any of the above essays mailed for 10 cents each, or the entire set of eleven {under one cover) mailed on receipt 



of 15 ce " ls - 



Gardening for Profit gives, in comprehensive detail, our twenty-five years' experience in market 

 gardening. 



Practical Floriculture (new edition) gives, up to date, our whole experience in the propagation 

 and growing of PLANTS during the past thirty years. 



Gardening' for Pleasure is a concise compendium, giving plain details for the culture of FRUITS, 

 flowers, and vegetables, and general gardening, for the use of Amateur Cultivators. 



Henderson's Handbook Of Plants is a condensed encyclopedia of 412 pages, giving 

 Botanical Classification, Propagation and Culture of nearly every known plant in cultivation, ornamental or useful, 

 up to the present time. 



"\JlTp Qp"|1 "NT A flnT'fiTlO'Q — Every season we are applied to for cuttings. We sell no cuttings, 

 VV u O011 li U UU.UUlU.gOa ] on g experience having shown us that the plan is a bad one for both 

 buyer and seller. When cuttings are packed they generate a damp that is almost certain to destroy them before 

 they would root ; and to us who sell it would really be more trouble to detach and pack cuttings than to send 

 plants. To such as want small plants at low rates, see Index for Low Price List. 



TVlP "Dpc<"j" T)n7PTI — From both amateur and professional cultivators we have complaints that every- 

 J. IIC JJCu U JJUZiClli w here the practice is to grow too many varieties, so that the selection of the ' ' best " 

 from catalogues is impossible even by those best qualified to do so ; to help such, we have selected what in our 

 judgment are the 12 " best and most distinct " kinds, whether new or old — for many of the sort of ten and even 

 twenty years ago are yet unequaled. " The Best Dozen " embraces Monthly and Hybrid Perpetual Roses, Double 

 and Single Geraniums, Verbenas, Fuchsias, Carnations, Large Flowering and Bouquet Dahlias, Large and 

 Small Flowering Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Crotons, Fancy Caladiums, Dracenas, Coleus, Lantanas, 

 Ferns, etc. See Index. 



