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



Hendeksons Silver Self^Blanching Celery. 



" / never had such fine Celery as your Silver Self- 

 Blanching. I believe it to be the best celery on 

 earth. It is as early as White Plume and much 

 better." 



GEORGE ENGLE, Sr., Amsterdam. N. Y. 



Combines the grand qualities of the 

 two most popular celeries grown. 



The sturdy, solid habit of 

 Golden Self-Blanching. 



The exquisite color and earliness of 

 White Plume. 



This grand Celery is easily described 

 to Celery experts when we say that it is 

 a Golden Self-Blanching plant with 

 White Plume coloring; it possesses the 

 robust, sturdy, compact habit of Golden 

 Self-Blanching, the stalks being even 

 thicker, more solid and heavy, with 

 immense solid hearts and all brittle, 

 crisp and tender, free from string or 

 pithiness, and of delightfully rich flavor. 

 To these ideal qualities are added 

 the beautiful silvery-white coloring and 

 self-blanching characteristics of White 

 Plume, that is, the foliage is tipped and 

 variegated with white, while the heart, 

 inner stalks and leaves are naturally 

 white, and the plants may be easily and 

 quickly blanched by leaning boards on either side of the row, without the necessity of 

 banking up. This, combined with its extreme earliness, will render Henderson's Silver 

 Self-Blanching perhaps the most valuable Celery for the market ever introduced. (See cut.) 

 Price, 15c. pkt., 60c. oz., $1.75 \ lb., $6.00 lb." 



HENDERSON'S PERFECTED WHITE PLUME CELERY. 



The Earliest Variety — can be Blanched in September. 



White 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 

 founds a very good keeper, which 

 is not generally known. Unfor- 

 tunately, 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, symmetrical ribs. 

 A strain so superior that we feel 

 justified in calling it " Hender- 

 son's Perfected White Plume." 

 (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt. 30c. 

 oz., 90c. \ lb., $3.00 lb. 



" / say with great pleasure, that your White 

 Plume Celery is the best we have ever grown; with 

 it we captured first premium at the Kentucky Stale 

 Fair. We grew it to mammoth size and 3 feet in 

 height." VITTER^BROS., Louisville, Ky. 



" After experience in Celery culture for many years, your 

 White Plume was the best we ever had. The stalks were white 

 from root to leaf, and when prepared for the table measured 23 

 inches. Everybody pronounced it the most beautiful Celery they 

 ever saw." T. B. McILWAIN, Napier, Ontario, Can. 



Our new leaflet, Celery Culture for Home and 

 Market, including winter keeping, combating 

 diseases, etc., free to customers, if asked for. 



