H ENDERSON'S Silver Self^Blanching Celery 
EVEKYBODY CAN GROW THIS CELERY AND BLANCH IT TOO 
This Celery can be grown by any one who has ordinarily good soil. Many 
people whose knowledge of gardening is limited to a few vegetables have not 
attempted to grow Celery supposing that it ean be grown only by an expert. 
There was a reason for such a belief when all varieties needed special handling. 
Thirty years ago, we introduced the first Self-Blanching Celery and since then 
the improvement in varieties has been so marvellous that the Celery industry 
has been completely revolutionized. Cultivation by the amateur is now easy 
and sure to produce results. Indeed, there is an element of success even in 
partial failure, for though the plants may be smaller than those grown for market, 
the quality is likely to be better. 
Silver Self-Blanching is a dwarf variety, with few but broad, thick, fleshy 
stalks, and an abundant heart all of which blanch very quickly, either by the 
old process of banking with soil, or by supporting 12 inch boards on edge against 
the row, the object of either method being to exclude the light, which, of course, 
hastens blanching. 
The quality is excellent, and it can be used fully one month earlier than the 
slow blanching sorts. {See cut.) Price, ISc. pkt., 7Sc. oz., $2.00 lb., $7.00 lb. 
“ Your Silver Self-Blanching Celery 1 found last year to be far 
ahead of While Plume, both for earliness and qtialily,'' 
JOHN FRANCE. Cornish, N. J. 
" Your Silver Self-Blanching Celery was fine. I have a few 
stalks in the pit yet {.February I7th) in good order. Some of them 
weighed lYz lbs." GEORGE BRINER, Columbia, Pa. 
"Just a word or two of esteem regarding your Self-Blanching 
Celery. It is the acme of perfection in every particular. I con¬ 
gratulate you on the introduction of such, which surpasses any and 
every kind of Celery in my experience. " 
JOHN F. STEVENS, Paterson, N, J. 
" Your Silver Self-Blanching Celery is the best Celery I ever 
grew. We had some ready for the table by July 2d—and in Sep¬ 
tember it was the finest Celery ever seen. Some of the heads weighed 
SY lbs., and half a dozen Upped the scales at I 4 Y lbs. You cannot 
speak too highly of it." J. HUNT, Odgensburg, N. Y. 
"I enclose you two photographs of your Silver Self-Blanching 
Celery; this Celery has reached a height of 28 inches in 5 weeks. 
The plants are all alike, averaging in weight S lbs. and over, each. 
We have more than we can use ourselves and so supplied some to 
our neighbors, and we all say that it is the best, sweetest and ten- 
derest Celery ever eaten. My gardener, Wm. Storey, has been 
raising Celery 18 years and says Silver Self-Blanching is the best 
he has ever raised or seen.” B. KEC.\N, Frostburg, Md. 
"Celery Culture for Home and Market," Free to Customers, 
