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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES 
H gnderson s CORELESS Carrot 
The Finest Early Table Variety Grown 
Handsome, Meltingly Tender and Sweet 
This Carrot, recently introduced by us. has proven one of 
the most universally popular varieties ever sent out. People 
who never liked Carrots before are delighted with the melting 
tenderness and sweet, mild flavor of lienderson s Coreless. 
It is a half-long cylindrical Carrot, blunt-pointed, with a 
small tap-root and small top. They run very uniform in 
shape and size, 6 to 7 inches long, by 13 ^ inches through; 
clean skinned, smooth, easily pulled and keep well. Ihe flesh 
is of fine texture, entirely devoid of stringiness, coarseness 
and woody heart or core. The color of the flesh is the rich 
red-orange so attractive when served. Henderson’s Coreless 
excels all other half-long Carrots in earliness without being 
inferior to them in productiveness. {See cut.) Price, 10c. 
pkt., 30c. oz., 85c. lb., $3.00 lb. 
''Last year's Coreless Carrots I got from you took 1st prize at Alberni District 
Agricultural Exhibit." R. A. PARKER, Alberni, B. C., Can. 
H enderson s Danvers Carrot 
:\ handsome half-long, cylindrical, stump-rooted Carrot of 
good size and of a rich, dark orange color; it grows to a large 
size, is smooth, and the flesh very close in te.xture with very 
little core and a small, tapering tap-root. It is a first-class 
Carrot for all soils; under good cultivation it has yielded 25 
to 30 tons per acre, with the smallest length of root of any 
now grown, and is more easily harvested than the longer 
types. Our selected stock gives the best of satisfaction. 
{See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. oz., 60c. )4, lb., $2.00 lb. 
.. Chantenay Carrot — 
This splendid Carrot belongs to the half-long “stump” or blunt- 
rooted type, but differs from all others of this class by its greater 
girth, bulk and consequent yield. It averages 6 to 7 inches in 
length, is broad at the neck, narrowing gradually to the round, 
blunt base, therefore is easily harvested. The flesh, entirely free 
from core, is of rich orange-red and of the finest table quality, 
fine-grained, tender, juicy and delicately flavored. Price, 10c. pkt., 
20 c. oz., 60c. lb., $2.00 lb. 
Henderson's Intermediate Carrot 
A large and handsome main-crop variety, sometimes called the 
“Pointed Danvers." It is the connecting link between hall 
and long Carrots, with a yielding capacity in deep soils 
to any of the longs. The root, 10 or 12 inches in length, is very 
broad at the neck, 2 to 3 inches through, and tapers evenly to 
the small tap-root. It grows smoothly and uniformly and combines 
with its other merits rich reddish-orange flesh, tender, sweet and 
•entirely free from woody coarseness even at maturity. 
As a table Carrot it is unsurpassed; for truckers its fine color and 
appearance render it salable, while as a field Carrot its great yield 
makes it valuable. Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. oz., 60c. ]4, lb., $2.00 lb. 
“Today 1 have been digsing some of your Intermediate Carrots, and they were the 
finest lot I ever saw; they averaged uniform and large." 
E. J. irCi’r, Oberlin, Ohio. 
Improved Long Orange Carrot 
An improved strain of this popular variety for either garden or 
field culture, roots averaging 12 inches in length and 3 inches in 
diameter at the top; an enormous yielder and a good keeper. Price, 
Sc. pkt., ISc. oz., 50c. lb., $1.75 lb. 
For our Complete List of Table Carrots, see Page 60. 
For Field Carrots, see Page 75 
