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HENDERSON’S TESTED 
vegetable SEEDS. 
NOVELTIES NMD SPECIALTIES 
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ABOUT SHIPMENT 
VEGETABLE SEEDS Purchased in Packets, Ounces and V4 lbs. are DELIVERED FREE by Parcel 
Post, Express or Freight at our Option IN THE UNITED STATES. 
Purchaser Pays Carriage on Pints, Quarts, Pecks, and Bushels or over. For Details, See Page 1. 
A FAMOUS NEW CELERY 
HENDERSON'S 
Easy-Blanching Celery 
(ILLUSTRATED IN COLORS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE) 
THE EASIEST AND SUIAEST TO GITOW 
THE QUICKEST AND EASIEST TO BLANCH 
THE SAFEST AND EASIEST TO KEEP 
Almost Stringless Sprightly Flavor Superb Quality 
We are of the opinion that the introduction of Easy-blanching Celery will mark an 
epoch in Celery culture for the home garden. We believe that it will prove to be among 
the most valuable additions we have made to the vegetable gardens of the world, fit to 
take rank with the most famous varieties of vegetables introduced by us, and with which 
our name is associated. We offer it with the greatest confidence in its merits, and feel 
assured that eventually it will be more widely planted than any other sort now offered. 
The plant is of medium height; extremely vigorous, having thick rather than broad 
stalks, with shallow ribs. The leaves are slightly, but densely crumpled, which .distin¬ 
guishes it from any other variety. Its quality is superb. The stalks are tender, brittle, 
extremely spicy, aromatic in flavor and most attractive in appearance. 
By planting Henderson’s Easy-blanching Celery, the amateur can now produce Celery 
equal in quality to that which formerly could be grown only by skilled men with years 
of experience. 
Late Celery requires more work, such as handling, banking and trenching to fit it for 
use, and is not ready for the table until quite late in the season. The self-blanching sorts 
are weaker in constitution and lack in keeping quality, the late sorts slow to grow and 
exacting in the work required. Thus each class has deficiencies which are supplied in this 
new variety. 
Henderson’s Easy-blanching Celery should be grown the same as any other variety 
until the handling process. For quick blanching, twelve-inch boards may be set on edge 
on either side of the row, holding them in place with soil at the base and wiring the tops 
together as tightly as practicable. The same result can be secured by banking with soil in¬ 
stead of boards, or by using Celery Blanching Paper as shown on colored plate opposite. 
For small gardens, the Ball Celery Bleacher may be used. (For particulars of both see the 
Implement portion of this Catalogue, pages 188 and 189.) 
To keep Henderson’s Easy-blanching Celery for winter, it must be green when trenched, 
and if so put away, it will keep longer than any other variety. Price, 20c. pkt., 3 pkts. for 50c. 
MARKET GROWERS PRAISE HENDERSON'S EASY-BLANCHING CELERY 
“7 have been growing Celery for market for forty years, and never knew of any other kind that, would blanch 
up so quickly as Easy-blanching. It makes a big heart and looks good in the bunch.” 
Oct. 12, 1914- GEO. DORN, Boulevard, Jersey City, N. J. 
11 We like your Easy-blanching Celery very much. Will plant lots of it this year. Sortie of our customers 
said it was the best Celery they ever ate.” N. P. GUSTAFSON, Batavia, III. 
“7 purchased some Easy-blanching Celery from you 
last year on a trial and am marketing it now. The 
gardeners here are all surprised at this variety blanch¬ 
ing so easily and so quickly. It is a fine slock, the best 
I ever saw, and is belter blanched today than the Self- 
blanching, and furthermore, has not one hollow or soft 
stalk in the whole crop. The name Easy-blanching fits 
it very well, and as far as I can see. this variety can 
be highly recommended. It is a good seller, and I am 
going to plant much more of it next year.” 
Oct. 6, 191/,. W. BRUNSWICK, . 
Gray Road, Winlon Place, Ohio. 
“7 grew your Easy-blanching Celery last year, and 
found it not only the quickest and easiest to blanch, but 
equal to the best later sorts in keeping quality. 
“ It should be pul away in trenches as late as possi¬ 
ble (about November 20th around here) and without 
blanching in the field. I just throw enough soil to the 
row to give the plants an upright growth, to tnake it easier 
to handle when trenching. In this way it will keep better 
than any other sort I ever grew.” 
Oct. 14. 1914■ LOUIS KOELSCH, 
West Side Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 
‘founded’bT Peter Henderson in 1847 13 TJTTm 0,1 Charles Henderson 
by his son 
* grandsons Peter and Howard M. Henderson 
