HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS FOR MARKET GARDENERS. 



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Grand Rapids Lettuce. 



This does not form compact heads but a large mass of 

 beautiful curly crisp leaves, tender and delicious; it is 

 the best of the loose-leaved sorts. A rapid grower and 

 admirable for field or indoor-culture, its upright habit 

 prevents leaf-rot where grown under glass. A favorite 

 variety for Winter forcing in the middle West. (See cut.) 

 Price, 16c. oz., 40c. \ lb., $1.25 lb. 



HENDERSON'S 



cos or celery lettuce " Trianon." 



Excels all other Lettuces in quality, having a crispness. 

 tenderness and flavor peculiarly its own and unapproached 

 by any other variety. The heads are long and conical. 

 The leaves require to be tied up, when they soon form 

 solid heads and quickly bleach to snowy whiteness, become 

 as stiff, crisp, and sweet as celery stalks, and are delicious 

 when eaten in the same manner or prepared for salad. 

 (See cut.) Price, 15c. oz., 40c. \ lb., $1.20 lb. 



" Your Cos Lettuce was the finest 1 ever saw. Every head was a solid 

 head and sold well." 



C. C. MURPHY & SONS. Uth and B StS- Washington. D. C. 



Netted Gem Musk Melon. 



One of the earliest varieties, generally coming into 

 the New York markets right after Jenny Lind. <>ur 

 stock is unsurpassed in purity and is selected to an 

 oval type which has proved of great advantage. It is 

 very uniform in size, beautifully netted, flesh deep, 

 fairly solid, but deliciously melting in character. The 

 color of flesh is rich green. It is very productive and a 

 grand sort. Price, 10c. oz., 20c. | lb., 65c. lb. 



Eden Gem Musk Melon. 



A very desirable variety for market, its quality as a 

 shipper being in itself a recommendation to truckers. 

 Although not quite so early as the Rocky Ford it is 

 even more productive as the vines bear longer, it is 

 solidly netted, flesh of an attractive green color of 

 declicious sweetness. Price, 10c. oz., 36c. J lb., $1.10 lb. 



THE " HENDERSON " 



= BUSH MUSK MELON. 



The Most Valuable Seed Novelty of the Age. 



The plants grow from 15 to 18 inches in length, which 

 permits the hills to be spaced 3 feet apart or at the 

 rate of 4840 hills to the acre, whereas the vine varieties 

 are usually planted 5 feet apart or 1742 hills to the 

 acre. Allowing as a fair average 5 fruits to a hill the 

 yield would be 24,200 fruits per acre from the Bush 

 Melon and of the Vine Melons at 7 fruits to the hill, 

 12,194 fruits to the acre. This comparison thus shows 

 the " Henderson " Bush Musk Melon will yield prac- 

 tically double the number of fruits that Vine Melons 

 do, on a given area. The fruits are of the popular 

 " Jenny Lind " type, averaging 5 inches in diameter; 

 the ribs are shallow; the surface is dark green, so 

 densely netted that it appears almost russet colored. 

 The flesh is deep, edible almost to the rind and is 

 colored light green flushed with salmon towards the 

 centre. The seed cavity is small. The quality is 

 superb, lusciously sweet and juicy They ripen a little 

 in advance of " Rocky Ford." (See cut.) Price, 15c.Jpkt., 

 4 pkts. 50c, 9 pkts. '$1.00. 



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