last year 
Wt are glad to say, 
we took occasion to dwell 
upon the evident indica¬ 
tions that the country 
was on the threshold of 
an unexampled career of business activity, that prosperity 
was following close upon the heels of peace, and we 
pointed to the part the farmers and gardeners of our broad land were taking in the betterment of the financial condition of the 
entire commonwealth. This year we join in tho general acclaim over the realization of the nation’s hope : North, South, East and 
West, Divine Providence lias blessed our beloved land with bounteous harvests, confidence has been restored, the wheels of industry 
are humming by day and night, labor is employed, capital is on a firm basis, and beyond question tho closing year of the nineteenth 
century will be one of the most prosperous the nation has ever known. 
thanks to our kind friends and patrons, that we have enjoyed our full share of 
returned prosperity and we enter upon the new year with a determination to still 
further merit the generous patronage we enjoy. Never in the history of our house, 
now in its fifty-third year, have we been better equipped for an enlarged business. 
Our seed crops have been uniformly successful; the watchful care which has kept them pure and reliable through ail the years has 
never been relaxed. Wo still maintain and enforce the vigilance and discrimination which discovered or developed Henderson’s 
Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage, Early Snowball Cauliflower, White Plume Celery, Bush Lima Bean, Ponderosa Tomato, Bovee Potato, 
New York Lettuce and Country Gentleman Sweet Corn, as well as the numerous other varieties of vegetables and flowers which are 
tlie accepted standards of excellence. “ As a tree is known by its fruits,” we have a pardonable pride in referring to our work in 
disseminating varieties which have been a boon to millions past and present and will prove a benefit to untold millions yet to be. 
adopted the policy of supplying our seeds, etc., direct to the planter, cutting away the 
middleman ; this was primarily because we were determined to protect the planters, 
who desired to purchase our seeds, etc., and who too frequently had other and very 
inferior seeds foisted upon them as Petek Henderson & Co.’s tested seeds. This 
change of policy has been most satisfactory to our customers and ourselves, and will be continued. The planter, be it understood, 
includes all who sow or plant, the florist, and market gardener as well as the person who grows for the home table. 
the scope of our business. Although most of the goods we offer for sale are to be 
found in our annual catalogues of “Everything for the Garden,” yet we have 
been made aware from time to time that, because of our preeminence as suppliers of 
vegetable and flower seeds, other lines are sometimes overlooked. Our grass seeds 
for lawns (see pages 189 to 191), and pastures (see pages 72 and 73) are unsurpassed; our general stocks of farm seeds arc of the 
same high quality (see pages 71 to 75). These are specialized in our “American Farmers’ Manual,” a book of 32 pages, which 
will be sent freo upon application. Our Implement Department is stocked with the finest selection of new and improved labor- 
saving machines and devices, not only for garden, greenhouse and farm but for household use, dairy and poultry yard. Our Imple¬ 
ment Catalogue of 68 pages will be sent free upon application. Our Book Department is stocked witli the best and most 
authentic works, covering in a practical way the entire field. These are offered in this catalogue and may be had as premiums on 
orders, fSee page 5.) Our Plant Department is stocked with the choicest plants grown specially for a shipping trade. With its 
four and one-half acres solid tinder glass and acres of outlying grounds, we stand unrivaled. (See pages 122 to 175, inclusive, in this 
catalogue ) Our Bulb Department is an important feature; spring and summer bulbs are offered on pages 118 to 121, inclusive, in 
this catalogue. We aro the largest dealers in fall bulbs—Tulips, Hyacinths, etc.—in the country, and send a special catalogue of 
these to all customers annually in September. Tho foregoing array of facts, we believe, justifies us in claiming to be the largest 
and most comprehensive horticultural and agricultural emporium in America, if not in the world, supplying the planter direct. 
JVo years ago we 
TV: 
ow a word about 
35 and 37 Cortlandt S treet > 
J\ew York, January 1st, 1900. 
Peter Henderson & Co. 
CHAS. HENDERSON, Pres. 
