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Peter Henderson was born on June 9, 1822, in Pathhead, Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the youngest of the three children of James Henderson, a land-steward, and his wife, Agnes Gilchrist.
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Peter Henderson was born on June 9, 1822, in Pathhead, Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the youngest of the three children of James Henderson, a land-steward, and his wife, Agnes Gilchrist.
Peter was sent at an early age to the parish school, where he showed a dislike for anything not of a strictly utilitarian nature. At the age of fifteen he went to Edinburgh and found employment in a liquor store, but he remained only a few months. He was then indentured as an apprentice in the gardens of Melville Castle, near Dalkeith, which under the direction of the head-gardener, George Stirling, was considered the best garden training-school in Scotland. While still an apprentice, he won the medal offered by the Royal Botanical Society of Edinburgh for the best herbarium of native and exotic plants in a competition open to entrants from the whole of Great Britain.
Emigrating to America in the spring of 1843, Peter Henderson arrived in New York with but three sovereigns in his pocket. He obtained a position with George Thorburn at Astoria, Long Island, and remained with him one year. From there he went to Philadelphia to work for Robert Buist Senior, at that time the leading nurseryman and florist in the United States. After some months with Buist he became private gardener for Charles F. Spang, at Pittsburgh. Henderson remained in Pittsburgh until he had saved $500, then he went into partnership in 1847 with his brother James, who possessed an equal amount of money, in the market-gardening business in Jersey City, New Jersey. After a few years the partnership was dissolved. James Henderson established a new business and concentrated on vegetable growing. Peter continued at the same place, adding to his stock an increasing proportion of ornamental plants until his garden stock was superseded. About 1853 he opened an office in New York City, where during the spring and early summer months he sold greenhouse and vegetable plants.
In 1864 Henderson left the Jersey City establishment and moved into what was then known as South Bergen. Here he erected model greenhouses. He retained the original New York office until 1862, when he moved into a seed store on Nassau Street with two young Scotchmen. In 1871, after buying out the two partners, he established the seed and garden supply house of Peter Henderson & Company.
Henderson was a prolific writer, his first horticultural writings appearing in the Magazine of Horticulture. Later he began to write for the Horticulturist, the Gardener’s Monthly, Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, the Country Gentleman, and similar publications. For some time he wrote on vegetable culture almost exclusively but as he drifted into ornamental horticulture, his articles began to cover that field also. In 1884 he published two books: Garden and Farm Topics, which was a collection of essays containing special agricultural information in condensed form, and How the Farm Pays, which he produced in collaboration with William Crozier. The latter was in the form of a stenographical report of a series of questions put by Crozier and answered by Henderson.
Besides these books and magazine articles he is said to have written many anonymous articles on various controversial matters in horticulture. One of his outstanding papers was that read before the New York Horticultural Society in 1881 entitled “Popular Errors and Scientific Dogmas in Horticulture, ” in which he attacked the grafthybrid theory of the origin of certain species as proposed by Darwin. Scarcely second to the personal influence exerted by his published writings was Henderson's enormous following as a result of his personal correspondence. In the last thirty-five years of his life he was said to have written or dictated at least 175, 000 letters. More than two-thirds of these were written by his own hand.
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Henderson was married to Emily Gibbons, of Bath, England. She died in 1868 and three years later Henderson married Jean H. Reid, the daughter of his friend Andrew Reid.