This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yNi.2ACEB/5412 Message Board Post: From Ancestry.com's "Biographies of Notable Americans-1904": HENDERSON, Peter, horticulturist, was born at Pathhead, near Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25, 1823. He was apprenticed to a gardener in 1839 and in 1843 removed to the United States, settling in Jersey City, N.J., as a florist and seedsman and establishing an extensive business house in New York city. He publislied Gardening for Profit (1866), nearly 250,000 copies of which had been sold at the time of his death; Practical Floricultare (1868); Gardening for Pleasure (1875); Handbook of Plants (1881); Garden and Farm Topics (1884); and How the Farm Pays (written in collaboration, 1884). He died in Jersey City, N.J., Jan. 17, 1890. Deloris Williams