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From PETER SfEMBElRSOH .®, CO., HEW YOIRI
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HENDERSON'S TESTED
VEGETABLE SEEDS.
MOVELTIES JIMD SPECIALTIES
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ABOUT SHIPMENT
VEGETABLE SEEDS Purchased in Packets, Ounces and 1 /4 lbs. are DELIVERED FREE by Parcel
Post, Express or Freight at our Option IN THE UNITED STATES.
Purchaser Pays Carriage on Pints, Quarts, Pecks, and Bushels or over. For Details, See Page l.
A FAMOUS NEW CELEKY
HENDERSON'S
Easy- Blanching Celery
(ILLUSTRATED IN COLORS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE)
THE EASIEST AND SUREST TO GKOW
THE QUICKEST AND EASIEST TO BLANCH
THE SAFEST AND EASIEST TO KEEP
Almost Stringless Sprightly Flavor Superb Quality
We are of the opinion that the introduction of Easy-blanching Celery will mark an
epoch in Celery culture for the home garden. We believe that it will prove to be among
the most valuable additions we have made to the vegetable gardens of the world, fit to
take rank with the most famous varieties of vegetables introduced by us, and with which
our name is associated. We offer it with the greatest confidence in its merits, and feel
assured that eventually it will be more widely planted than any other sort now offered.
The plant is of medium height; extremely vigorous, having thick rather than broad
stalks, with shallow ribs. The leaves are slightly, but densely crumpled, which distin-
guishes it from any other variety. Its quality is superb. The stalks are tender, brittle,
extremely spicy, aromatic in flavor and most attractive in appearance.
By planting Henderson's Easy-blanching Celery, the amateur can now produce Celery
equal in quality to that which formerly could be grown only by skilled men with years
of experience.
Late Celery requires more work, such as handling, banking and trenching to fit it for
use, and is not ready for the table until quite late in the season. The self-blanching sorts
are weaker in constitution and lack in keeping quality, the late sorts slow to grow and
exacting in the work required. Thus each class has deficiencies which are supplied in this
new variety.
Henderson's Easy-blanching Celery should be grown the same as any other variety
until the handling process. For quick blanching, twelve-inch boards may be set on edge
on either side of the row, holding them in place with soil at the base and wiring the tops
together as tightly as practicable. The same result can be secured by banking with soil in-
stead of boards, or by using Celery Blanching Paper as shown on colored plate opposite.
For small gardens, the Ball Celery Bleacher may be used. (For particulars of both see the
Implement portion of this Catalogue, pages 188 and 189.)
To keep Henderson's Easy-blanching Celery for winter, it must be green when trenched,
and if so put away, it will keep longer than any other variety. Price, 20c. pkt, 3 pkts. for 50c.
MARKET GROWERS PRAISE HENDERSON'S EASY-BLANCHING CELERY
" / have been growing Celery for market for forty years, and never knew of any other kind that would blanch
up so quickly as Easy-blanching. It makes a big heart and looks good in the bunch."
Oct. 12, 1914. GEO. DORN, Boulevard, Jersey City, N. J.
" We like your Easy-blanching Celery very much. Will plant lots of it this year. Some of our customers
said it was the best Celery they ever ate." N. P. GUSTAFSON, Batavia, III.
"I purchased some Easy-blanching Celery from you
last year on a trial and am marketing it now. The
gardeners here are all surprised at this variety blanch-
ing so easily and so quickly. It is a fine slock, the best
1 ever saw, and is belter blanched today than the Self-
blanching, and furthermore, has not one hollow or soft
stalk in the whole crop. The name Easy-blanching fits
it very well, and as far as I can see, this variety can
be highly recommended. It is a good seller, and I am
going to plant much more of it next year."
Oct. 6, 1914. W. BRUNSWICK,
Gray Road, Winlon Place, Ohio.
"I grew your Easy-blanching Celery last year, and
found it not only the quickest and easiest to blanch, but
equal to the best later sorts in keeping quality.
"It should be put away in trenches as late as possi-
ble (about November 20th around here) and without
blanching in the field. I just throw enough soil to the
row to give the plants an upright growth, to make it easier
to handle when trenching. In this way it will keep better
than any other sort I ever grew."
Oct. 14, 1914. LOUIS KOELSCH,
West Side Ave., Jersey City, N. J.
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