Peter Henderson, Gardener, Author, Merchant : a Memoir
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While person- ally most of his time was taken up at the greenhouses, he still was able to throw an enormous amount of energy into this department, which, from its very nature, is capable of a much greater expansion than that of plants, articles almost exclusively a luxury. His fertility in devising schemes for its development was something phenomenal, even to those most familiar with his works and ways. Scarcely a day passed but what practical and valuable suggestions were thrown off from his b...usy brain. He it was who first conceived, as early as 1872, the idea of offering to the horticultural public, the oppor- tunity of procuring all their supplies from one firm. This idea was quickly perfected in its details and found its expression in a phrase of his own coinage " Every- thing for the Garden," a term in a business sense, almost S5monomous with the name of Peter Henderson. His long experience as a market gardener probably made him realize more than most seedsmen, the necessity of testing seeds before offering them for sale, bht what- ever the cause, the fact remains, that he was the first in this country to initiate the true and natural way of prov- A MEMOIR.
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