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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE 



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It will pay you to change your seed. We 

 have the right kind to make the change with. 

 All our stocks are specially grown for Seed 

 Purposes in Eastern Wisconsin. 



German, ffavtoffel. French, Pomme de Terre. 



Ten bushels cut tubers to the acre. 



The Potato may be grown with varying success on soils of 

 all kinds, but the soil best suited to it is sandy loam. But 

 little manure is required if the soil is good. 



We deliver all Potatoes f. o. b. cars, no extra charge being 

 made for barrels. All Potatoes are shipped at purchaser's 

 risk. Prices of all Potatoes subject to variation. 



THE MILWAUKEE. 



By far the best early Potato we have ever seen. It re- 

 sembles Crown Jewel in appearance, but of larger size 

 and very much superior quality. It is a strong grower 

 with very strong tops, conies into use fully as early as 

 Early Sunrise, yielding, however, a much larger crop 

 than that variety, and has the further merit of being a 

 first-class keeper, and may be depended upon to remain 

 in good condition without sprouting until very late in 

 the season. If grown in rich, black loam it will produce 

 a very heavy crop of handsome, large tubers of very 

 fine quality. And not the least of its good qualities is 

 the fact that it is almost entirely Rust Proof. Peck, 50 

 CIS.; bushel, S1.50; barrel S4.00 



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THE MILWAUKEE. 



FOR 75 CENTS 

 we will mail you 1 lb. each 

 of the four grand Pota» 

 toes: 



SNOWFLAKE JUNIOR. 



THE MILWAUKEE. 



CARMAN No. 3. 



ACME. 



SPECIAL OFFER FOR 



$2.50. 

 In order to give our 

 customers a chance to try 

 our varieties of Potatoes, 

 we offer the eight separate 

 sorts, 1 PECK OF EACH, 

 2 BUSHELS IN ALL, FOR 

 $2.50. 



CARMAN NO. 3. 



Pride of Wisconsin- 



SNOWFLAKE JUNIOR. 



The nearest Bug=proof Potato 

 known. By far the largest crop- 

 per, with clean shallow eyes. 

 Cooks very dry and mealy. 



Resembles the old favorite 

 Snowflake very much in appear- 

 ance and in cooking qualities. It 

 is, however, much more prolific 

 and has the further merit of be- 

 ing the nearest to BUQ-PROOP 

 of any Potato we have ever 

 grown, the bugs only attacking 

 it after all other varieties in sight 

 had been disposed of, and then 

 only in very small numbers, so 

 that they could easily be taken 

 care of. As an all round family 

 or market Potato, in size and 

 shape, we consider this one per- 

 fect. It is handsome in appear- 

 ance, grows to a large size, clear 

 white, cooks evenly and mealy, 

 and possessing that desirable 

 flavor peculiar to the Snowflake. 

 The tops are remarkably strong, 

 growing upright, color dark 

 green. Peck, 60 cts.; bushel, 

 81.50; barrel, $4 00. 



Mr. Carman in his potato trials 

 on the Rural New Yorker trial 

 grounds in 1896, found it by far 

 the largest yielder of any variety 

 grown, yielding at the rate of 

 645)4 bushels to the acre. 

 ■A variety of very superior merit, 



SNOWFLAKE JUNIOR. 



Early Ohio— The most popular extra early Potato known, and a great favorite with 

 market growers. We can offer this year a selected stock of True Early Ohio 

 specially grown for seed purposes. Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, $1.25; barrel $8.00 



remarkable in size and beauty of the tubers, which are 

 oblong, round and smooth, of a beautiful rose color; very 

 productive. For good keeping qualities it has no su- 

 perior. Peck, 40 cts. ; bushel, $1.25; barrel $3.00 



Lakeside Champion-A late white variety, matur- 

 ing alorg with Burbank and resembling in appearance 

 the well-known Beauty of Hebron. It is, however, longer 

 and larger than that variety, very productive and re- 

 markably fine grained, possessing the finest keeping 

 qualities. When cooked they are nice flavored, dry and 

 mealy. It i« a strong bug-resister, and does remarkably 

 well on thin, poor land. Peck, 40 cts.; bushel,$1.25; barrel,3.00 



The Bovee— An extra early Potato of morethanordina- 

 ary merit. It Is a large yielder and remarkably vigorous. 

 The vines are dwarf and stocky, and the tubers grow 

 close together in a bunch close up to the vine, all being 

 of good marketable size. It is earlier than Early Ohio. 

 Its cooking qualities are equal to the best; always white, 

 dry and mealy. Peck, 40 cts. ; bushel, $1.25; barrel 3.00 



Acme— A popular extra early Potato of the Ohio type, 

 maturing about ten days earlier than Early Ohio, and 

 vielding a much larger crop than that popular variety. 

 The tubers are uniformly large, smooth and shallow 

 eyed. Not the least of its good points is its excellent 

 keeping qualities— notwithstanding its earliness— re. 

 maining solid in the cellar without sprouting until early 

 the following summer. Its cooking qualities are the 

 best, always mealy and of fine flavor. Peck, 40 cts.; 

 bushel. $1.25; barrel •„•:.—••£ 



Carman No. 3— A seedling raised by Mr. Carman, 

 which in manv respects resembles the well-known and 

 popular Rural New Yorker No. 2, but is destined to su- 

 persede that well-known variety. It is of perfect form, 

 even in dry seasons, almost every Potato being of uni- 

 form size and shape. It has very shallow eyes, which are 

 few in number. The skin and flesh aieextremly white, 

 with no hollow or dark parts; a handsome Potato and 

 enormously prolific : cooking qualities very fine. Peck, 

 40 cts.; bushel, $1.25; barrel 3 - w 



