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Title: Henderson's wholesale catalogue. : seeds, implements, fertilizers, insecticides &c. for market gardeners and truckers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Fertilizers Catalogs Insecticides Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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HENDERSONS COS OR CELERY LETTUCE TRIANON. Excels all other Lettuces in quality, having a crispness,tenderness and flavor peculiarly its own and unap-proached by any other variety. The heads are long andconical. The leaves require to be tied up, when theysoon form solid heads and quickly bleach to snowy white-ness, become as stiff, crisp and sweet as celery stalks,and are delicious when eaten in the same manner or pre-pared for salad. (See cut.) Price, 15c. oz., 40c. \ lb.,$1.20 lb. Your Cos Lettuce was the finest I ever saw. Every head was a solidhead and sold well. C. C. MURPHY & SONS, 9th and B Sts., Washington, D. C. I lake this opportunity of praising Trianon Cos Lettuce. It is superb—one is large enough for a samll family. Dr. J. FITZ-MATHEW, It. Sound. Wash. FOR OUR COMPLETE LIST OF LETTUCES, THIRTY-ONE VARIETIES, SEE PAGES 38 AND 39. 18 PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. (—(eNDERSONS BIG BOSTON LETTUCE rown
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The Best Head Lettuce on Earth. More ExtensivelyGrown than any «other Lettuce. H Praised by l All Users. Enclosed we send you two photos of our Big BostonLettuce field. We had the finest on the market hereand took First Prize at our County Fair held lastmonth. The heads were like Cabbages. A. ZIMLICH & SONS, Mobile, Ala. Your Big Boston Lettuce is fine; sold morethan everthis year. CHARLES RIESS, St. Bernard, Ohio. I bought quite some Big Boston Lettuce Seed fromyou and had a fine crop. I am cutting and shipping itnow. It certainly is a fine lettuce the best in thissection. E. NADLER, Chester, N. Y. Please send me 4 lbs. of your Big Boston Lettuceseed. I had a large acreage of it the past season andit was very fine. W. F. HALLANER, Grower of Fancy Celery and Lettuce, 156 Portland av., Rochester, N. Y. Your Big Boston Lettuce was a grand success—the finest ever seen around here. i H. W. M. DRAKE, Port Gibson, Mich. The lettuce I have raised from your Big Bostonseed created quite

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