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COUNTERBALANCE 
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 
By Growing Your Own Fresh Vegetables On 
Your Own Plot of Ground 
123 percent 
Increase 
in cost of 
Vegetable Foods 
Tables pre¬ 
pared by the 
N. Y • Journal of 
Commerce a n d 
Market Reports , 
issued in Octo¬ 
ber 1916 , show 
that wholesale 
prices for six 
principal vegetable 
foods , viz.: Beans , 
Turnips, Potatoes, 
Onions , Cabbages 
and Tomatoes , 
feat/e increased on 
an average 123 per 
cent, over last 
year's prices 
Turnips , Cab¬ 
bages and Potatoes 
have increased in 
price fully 200 
per cent, 
[Increase 
In Cost of 
In the year just passed, owing partly to weather conditions, and partly 
to scarcity of labor, garden crops in many sections of the country were 
short and in some sections failures. Consequently, prices for fresh 
vegetables were advanced to a degree that was heavily felt by the con¬ 
sumer and added very materially to the expense account of the family 
table, already swollen by the extravagant prices charged for meats and 
other foodstuffs. 
Fresh vegetables are needed by every member of the familyjevery 
day in the year, and if grown in the family garden instead of being 
purchased at the prevailing high prices at a store, constitute an 
inexpensive and very valuable supply of food. 
Owners or occupiers of garden plots thus have a counterweight 
to the increased cost of food supplies in their own hands. 
We ourselves are mighty pleased to record the fact that we 
have hundreds of thousands of customers scattered all over our 
big country who have been far-seeing enough to adopt this 
method of circumventing the high cost of living. As one of 
our customers aptly puts it in a letter we print on this page, 
“That high cost of living man never worries us.” 
Market reports from various centers, and tables compiled by 
the N. Y. Journal of Commerce show that six of 
the staple vegetables are now fully 123 per cent 
higher in price than a year ago, and during the 
winter and spring will undoubtedly advance 
still further. 
If you are not already enrolled in our ever 
increasing army of customers we invite you 
to purchase a supply now of 
Henderson’s Tested Seeds 
and grow your own fresh vegetables on your own 
plot of ground. 
Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting 
your continued patronage. 
Sincerely yours, 
$125.00 worth 
of Good Food 
for $2.50, plus 
a Little Healthy 
Labor. 
• “Jlenderson's 
Seeds last year 
brought us won¬ 
derful luck. On 
our back lot we 
raised our sum¬ 
mer and whiter 
supply of Toma¬ 
toes, Corn, Let- j 
tlice , Beans, 
Onions, Limas 
and Okra from 
the $ 2.50 worth 
of your seeds. 
Our garden will 
figure in value to 
us$ 125 . 00 . That 
high cost of 
living man 
never worries 
us.” WILLARD i 
DOWNS , 
Fredericksburg, 
Va. 
ders<f 
ested 
table S< edv 
l&C o. 
President 
PETER IIENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK. 
“EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN” FOR 1917 
On the front cover of this, our annual catalogue, we print in colors a view of the garden of General Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage, 
near Nashville, Tenn. 
This is the fifth in our series of famous gardens, and we are sure that a picture of the home of one of the greatest Americans will be 
appreciated. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, “Old Hickory,'’ as his soldiers affectionately dubbed him in allusion to hia 
hardihood in the campaign against the Creek Indians, was noted not only as a soldier but also as a statesman. And truly, for 
hard common sense, courage, foresight and keen judgment of men and things, it would be difficult to find his peer in any period of 
our country’s history. Discussing husbandry and the cultivation of the soil, before Congress, in 1828, he uttered the following opinion: 
“ The agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and superior in importance to them all .” 
There has been but little change in this respect since Jackson’s time, and the successful cultivation of the country’s crops is still the 
real and lasting foundation of national prosperity. 
In presenting this, our annual catalogue to our friends, both old and new, we draw attention to the 32 pages illustrating in colors 
many of our leading specialties, making our “Everything for the Garden” 1917 greater, brighter and handsomer than ever. 
