

•PETER HENDERSON A CO., IMEW YORK- 



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HENDERSON'S PERFECTED 



WHITE PLUME CELERY 



The EARLIEST Variety Grown— Can be Blanched 



for the Table in September— "Banlcing 



Up" not Necessary. 



WHITE PLUME CELERY was intro 

 duced by us and is now more popular 

 than ever. The pecuharity of the 

 self-blanching celeries is that they 

 will blanch naturally without the 

 laborious banking up which is 

 essential to ordinary sorts. It 

 is as easy to grow White Plume 

 Celery as any other vegetable. 

 If the stalks are drawn to- 

 gether when the plant is three- 

 fourths grown and the soil 

 drawn to or pressed around the 

 plant it will soon be fit for use. 

 Boards are sometimes placed 

 close up to the plants, but the 

 result is not so satisfactory as by 

 contact with the earth. 



At maturity, the plant is highly 

 ornamental. Its ample white heart 

 and variegated leaves present a beauti- 

 ful appearance. The dehcate flavor of 

 crisp, succulent stalks is unequalled, 

 stock of this grand old vegetable is finer to 

 day than ever and we are fully entitled to 

 name it "Henderson's Perfected White 

 Plume." {See ciU.) Price, 10c, pkt., 40c. oz., 

 $1.25 % lb., $4.00 lb. 



"/ raised your White Plume Celery last year and it 

 was the best celery I ever raised. I began bleaching it in 

 August and it lasted until New Year's — was crisp and 

 sweet."— Mrs. FRED LEUSER, Geneseo, N. Y. 



HENDERSON S PERFECTED WHITE PLUME CELERY. 



"/ 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 

 State Fair. We grew it to mammoth size and S 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. 



" Would say your Perfected White Plume Celery is the finest I have 

 ever grown. I had 400 plants, some of which weighed 5} lbs; the most 

 beautiful sight I ever saw." — W. N. PITTMAN, Pemberton, N. J. 



QOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING .... 



HENDERSON'S 

 SUPERIOR STOCK. 



'T'HIS grand variety of French origin is becoming more 

 popular every year, and is now one of the most ex- 

 tensively grown sorts, both for private use and for market. 

 It is not as early as White Plume, though it possesses the 

 same self-blanching characteristics and is of heavier and 

 more coinpact growth, the stalks being thick, crisp and 

 brittle, while the hearts are large and solid, all blanching 

 a beautiful waxen-yellow; the quality is superb, tender and 

 free from stringiness; flavor rich and delightful. Our 

 seed is grown from a very select strain and pronounced by 

 expert celerv growers as verv superior. (See cut.) 

 Price, 10c. pkt., 50c. oz., $1.50 i lb., $5.00 lb. 



" We can say with pleasure that your Golden Self-Blanching Celery is the 

 best celery we have ever had on our table; its beautiful, crisp, sweet stalks are 

 relished by our whole family. It must be the finest celery grown; at least we 

 do not want a better." Mrs. WM. MORGAN, Springfield, Ohio. 



"I used your Golden Self-Blanching Celery last year and found the crop 

 free from hollow stalks, while my neighbors, who used seed from another 

 source, lost nearly all their crops from hollow celery." 



R. J. DALLINGER, Akron, Ohio. 



"I have your Golden Self-Blanching Celery SO inches high and 6 inches 

 fhrouoh; solid and good. In every instance your celery seed has given me 

 splendid satisfaction." — HARRY KING, Tracyton. Wash. 



For our complete list of ELEVEN VARIETIES OF CELERY, see page 32. 



