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HENDERSON, Peter, gardener, born in Pathhead, near Edinburgh, Scotland, 25 June, 1823. He was educated at the parish school of Pathhead, studied botany while serving an apprenticeship as a gardener, and in 1840 obtained the medal given by the experimental gardeners of Edinburgh for the best collection of dried specimens of plants. He afterward came to the United States, engaged in greenhouse horticulture in Jersey City, also as seedsman in New York, and his business in both departments is now the largest in the United States. He is the author of "Gardening for Profit," which has attained a sale of over 100,000 copies (New York, 1866); "Practical Floriculture" (1868); "Gardening for Pleasure " (1875); "Henderson's Handbook of Plants" (1881);" Garden and Farm Topics" (1884); and " How the Farm Pays" (1884).
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