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VEGETABLE SEEDS 
INTRODUCED INTO CULTIVATION 
* K 1/ / /C ...... 
A]OW MORE LAROELY GROWN 
1 V THAN ALL OTHER CELERIES 
COMBINED . 
IT HAS ATTAINED THE PINNACLE 
1 OF PERFECTION FOR GROWTH, 
EARLINESS, BEAUTY, FLAVOR 
AND TEXTURE . 
nr HOSE WHO NEVER COULD 
1 GROW CELERY BEFORE CAN 
SUCCEED WITH WHITE PLUME 
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“ PERFKCTED 
White Plume 
—CELERY-W 
is the EARLIEST ^ 
variety grown, and can 
be blanched for the table 
In September. 
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’ 1893 
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HENDERSON’S 
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“I took first prize in 
Toronto with your White 
Plume Celery ; also in Watford at 
the East Lambton Show, and at West Middlesex Show held at Strathroy. In 1894 I 
took first prize wherever I went. I got seed from another house in 1895 and was 
not so successful as with your stock." 
•• Your White Plume Celery last year was the best I ever had. Not a single head 
areverted to the old green type." 
“Perfected White Plume” Celery. 
Introduced by us years ago; time has proved it to be one of our most 
valuable contributions to horticulture. It is now more popular and 
more largely grown than all other varieties of celery combined. 
People who never grew celery before havo no more trouble in growing 
and blanching Henderson’s White Plume Celery ready for the table 
than in growing ordinary garden vegetables, for no “banking up ” is 
necessary. The peculiarity of this variety is that the stalk, portions of 
inner leaves and heart are white naturally, so that by simply tying the 
plant together, or by drawing the soil against it, pressing it with the 
hands and then repeating the operation to hold the soil already placed 
against the plant in position, the work of blanching is completed. 
Henderson’s White Plume Celery presents a highly ornamental ap¬ 
pearance on the dinner table, and its crisp, succulent stalks and 
delicious flavor are unequaled by any vegetable grown. Unfortunately 
the variety has always had a tendency to revert to the old green type, 
and it has always produced a proportion of green plants, but per¬ 
severing selection for years enables us now to offer an almost abso¬ 
lutely pure stock, so superior that we feel justified in calling it 
“ Henderson’s Perfected White Plume.” (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 
35c. oz., $1.00 y. 
lb., $3.50 lb. 
J$i^ iPER — TED ^ 
We bought Borne Celery seed. White 
Plume, of you last year, which was A No. 1, and 
the parties desire to plant again, and they want the same 
seed, or rather of the same year. Can you furnish same to us ?** 
“ Your White Plume seed is the purest and the plants blanch the easiest of any 
I have tried.’* 
“ I will occupy the space left by my wife to say a few words in praise of my 
Perfected White Plume Celery. I have been using your seed many years, but I 
havo never had such success as I have this year with the above seed. After a long 
experience in celery culture, I find nothing comparable to your White Plume.’* 
“You may be interested in knowing that your White Plume Celery took first 
premium at the Maryland State Fair. My bed is certainly the handsomest thing 
in celery I ever saw. Some of the feathered hearts measure twenty inches in length 
when trimmed and bunched for market.” 
“ Your White Plume is the finest celery we have ever seen. At a special dinner 
of 14 covers, it received the highest encomiums of the guests.”— Hoffman House, 
New York. 
DO NOT FORGET that you are entitled to your own selection of PREMIUMS as offered on page 5. 
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