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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK- 
OLDEN ROSE CELERY. (Z2ZSZ# ^ 
Charming combinations of color. 
Beautiful rose=colored stalks, surmounted with golden 
plumes. 
Blanches naturally. 
Remarkably early and a perfect keeper. 
Exquisite in flavor. 
F rom the few packets of seed sent out for trial last season we 
have received MOST FLATTERING REPORTS, a few of 
which we print below. 
“ / am pleased to tell you of the success I have had in growing 
your Golden Hose Celery. 1 have taken great interest in all 
the self-blanching varieties as they have appeared on the market, 
and 1 find that Golden Rose possesses all their good features, par¬ 
ticularly in its blanching habit. The bright rose color of the stalks 
and the beautiful' yellow color of the leaves make a contrast which 
will be sure to make this variety popular. 1 trust you will have 
some seed to offer in 1897.” 
“ I cannot help writing to tell you how much I enjoyed the Golden 
Rose Celery you sent me, for trial last spring. I never saw such a 
fine celery. One often hears that seedsmen are apt, to overdraw their 
descriptions and illustrations. It seems to me no picture could do 
justice to a head of this celery as prepared for table and after having 
been properly blanched.” 
“ Results from the trial packet of your nciv Golden Rose Celery are 
simply grand. It was carefully grown alongside of several standard 
varieties, and for quality it surpassed them all. It has no tendency 
in the least to rust, and in appearance it is most beautiful when pre¬ 
pared for the table. 1 grow for market, and celery is one of my 
specialties. / shall certainly include your new Golden Rose in my 
order for 1897.” 
“ Your Golden Rose Celery is well named, suggestive as it is of 
Golden Self-blanching and your New Rose, and combining the best 
qualities of both. I find it as easy to grow as any other self blanching 
sort, and its Jlavor is superior to any celery l know. For private 
use, it is certain to be popular, and if the public only ‘ catch on ’ to 
the superior favor of red celeries , Golden Rose will soon be the 
leading market variety. '* 
“ Your new Celery was very fine with me this year. Grown along - 
side Golden Self-blanching, it was fully as large, and was as strictly a 
self blanching sort as that already famous variety. Its stalks were 
heavy and of a deep rose color, blanching into a beautiful golden hue, 
thus giving it a handsome appearance. Its favor was excellent. 
Possessing all the richness and crispness of the red, varieties, together 
with its truly self-blanching nature, makes it, l believe, one of the 
finest sorts for the market.. 
I T is exceedingly gratifying to us to be able to offer this Celery, as it 
is a distinct improvement on existing varieties. Its most striking 
feature is its unique color, which to the expert grower means a 
great deal, for it is an admitted fact that the red or rose colored 
Celeries are of far finer quality than the white sorts. Celery is always 
expected to carry beauty of appearance with quality, and to meet this 
demand a combination of color and ilavor is not only desirable but very 
essential. 
Until the introduction of our Pink Plume, this was unknown, and 
now in Golden Bose we have a different type of plant, possessing the 
same qualities that have made Pink Plume so popular. 
Golden Bose is a development of the favorite Golden Self-blanching, 
and shows its parentage in iis strong iiabit of growth, while its self¬ 
blanching character is strongly fixed. The plant is dwarf and heavy, 
the stalks are very broad and solid, and are also entirely free from (hose 
objectionable ridges which generally accompany stringiness; indeed, 
there is so little string that the stalks are positively brittle. The 
general color is about identical with Golden Self-blanching, except 
that the naturally golden-colored stalks are suffused with a warm, rosy 
line, which gradually fades towards the top of the stalks, where it as¬ 
sumes a bright golden color when properly blanched and lit for the table. 
The unique combination of color makes it exquisitely beautiful in appear¬ 
ance, and its self-blanching habit assures its earliness, whilst its hardi¬ 
ness and solidity bespeak its ability to keep for a considerable time. 
As the original introducers of the Golden Dwarf, White Plume, New 
Bose and Piuk Plume Celeries, wo claim to be more than an ordinary 
authority on the subject of Celery, and we would candidly say that, 
in our opinion, the Golden Bose is likely to prove one of the grandest 
varieties for private use ever introduced. The colored plate opposite 
does not do it justice. Its appearance is simply superb—a blending of 
rich golden and deep rose in its heavy wax-like stalks. Give it a good 
rich spot in your garden and you will not regret your investment in the 
Golden Bose. 
3?i*ioe, J25e. plit., ."» pkts. Tor $1.00. 
—A Grand New Main Crop POTATO, 
“SIR WALTER RALEIGH.” 
The only seedling of the well-known Rural New-Yorker No. 2 that is better than its parent. 
Though offered this year for the first time, we have grown it for 
three years, and are convinced that it is the best of Mr. Carman’s 
introductions, and Mr. Carman lias raised some of the best and 
most popular varieties, notably the great pairs, Rural Blush and 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2, and the Carman No. 1 and No. 3. In 
most respects it closely resembles Rural New-Yorker No. 2, but is 
more uniform and yields practically no small tubers, every one 
being marketable. It is from four to six days later than the Rural 
New-Yorker; tho color of the skin is the same, but the tlesh is 
whiter and of better quality; in fact, it is the whitest-fleshed and 
finest-grained Potato, excelling even the Snowflake. It is un¬ 
questionably the best of its type, and will soon supersede all others 
of this class. 
At the Rural Grounds it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 
forty-nine varieties, and on our own trial farm and on the farms of 
throe potato experts in New Jersey, Now York and Connecticut, it 
proved tho most remarkable of many varieties grown. 
We have named it “ Sir Walter Raleigh,” because of the great 
exhibition of Potatoes being held in Ireland this year, the tricen¬ 
tennial year of the introduction of the so-called Irish Potato into 
Great Britain by Sir Walter Raleigh, who, it is claimed, got the 
tubers in Virginia. Combining as it does three centuries of im¬ 
provement, and representing the highest type of Potato known 
to-day, we believe it to be a fitting tribute to the original intro¬ 
ducer of the Potato into commerce, to have iiis name attached to 
the best production of Mr. Carman, who lias in recent years done 
so much for the improvement of the Potato. 
PRICE. 50c. lb., 3 lbs. for $1 00, 5 lbs. for $1.50, 10 lbs. 
for $2.50, postpaid. If by express or freight, deduct 8c. 
per lb. 
Those who have tried our “ SIR WALTER RALEIGH ” 
Wickatunk, Monmouth County, N. J. 
*‘I am of a decided opinion that ‘Sir Walter 
Raleig'li ’ will he the coming Potato for main crop. 
It lias certainly far exceeded my expectations. I have 
grown all of Mr. Carman's Potatoes, and believe that 
in ‘Sir Walter Raleig'li,’ Mr. Carman has ex¬ 
celled all his previous efforts. The quality is equal 
to Rural Blush and Snowflake : and the flavor 
much finer than either. It is a heavy cropper and 
produces no small Potatoes.” 
J. L. Conover. 
Milford, Conn. 
“The ‘ Sir Walter Raleig'li ’ is a great >ielder; 
POTATO write: 
all large Potatoes, no small ones; vines grow strong 
and upright.” C. W. Beardsley. 
Aquebogue, Long Island, N Y. 
“ ‘ Sir Walter Raleig'li ’ is an immense yielder, 
of fine quality and very few small ones.” 
S. 0. Benjamin. 
POST OR FXPRESS PAID. If by express or 
freight, at purchasers’ expense, deduct 8c. per lb. 
PRICE, 50G. lb.; 3 IDs., $1.00; 5 IDS., $1.50; 10 IDS., $2.50, 
SPECIAL 
OFFER 
1 lb. each of the three grand New Potatoes. The “ Bovee,” “ 
for $1.00; 3 lbs. each for $2.25. If by express or freig'ht, at 
Sir Walter Raleig'li” and “Uncle Sam,” delivered free 
purchasers expense, deduct 8c. per lb. 
