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Henderson s New Potato. 



EARLY RUSSET. 



THIS NEW SEEDLING IS POTATO PERFECTION. 



Potato Experts 



Think of Hendersons Early Russet : 



"Your new potato — Early Russel — is by far the best 

 cooking potato that I have ever tasted. Had the season here 

 not been so dry, which prevented early potatoes from taking 

 on size, the Early Russets would hare yielded 200 barrels 

 per acre, for in some of the hills there were as many as 

 twenty potatoes.'' 



L. S. BEAN, Presque Isle, Maine. 



"Your Early Russet is the handsomest first early potato 

 that I have ever seen, and I have grown over WOO varieties. 

 Shape excellent and uniform; quality splendid." 



J. R. LAWRENCE, Eden Trial Grounds, 



Raynham, Mass. 



"The Early Russet Potatoes did well. We had some 

 baked today for the first time. Not in 40 years since 1 left 

 my boyhood home in Massachusetts have I enjoyed a 

 potato as I did your Early Russet. Words fail to express 

 the glorious taste, so perfectly light and dry. It was a 

 dream. I made a meal of them, not wishing anything 



CHARLES F. EMERY, Friday Harbor, Wash. 



THE EARLIEST POTATO GROWN AND THE BEST EXTRA 

 EARLY GROWN. :: :: RELIABLE YIELDER OF HANDSOME 

 POTATOES OF SUPERFINE QUALITY, AND A GOOD KEEPER. 



HENDERSON'S Early Russet we believe to be not only the earliest potato 

 grown but the best early potato grown. It is a seedling of 1903, bred from 

 two famous early varieties, and grown in Maine, the "potato paradise," 

 which produces the best seed potatoes in America. 



In earliness Henderson's Early Russet leads the field, usually being large enough 

 for cooking in 8 weeks from planting, and in 9 to 10 weeks is fully matured. 



It is a very handsome potato of rounding, oval form, very uniform in shape 

 and size, averaging 4 to 5 inches in length — sometimes larger, seldom smaller. 

 The eyes are on the surface and very shallow. The skin of creamy-buff is netted 

 golden russet, nature's hall-mark, as all critics know, of potato quality — which 

 axiom is fully sustained in Henderson's Early Russet, for the flesh is fine-grained, 

 as white as snow, cooks dry and floury, "sheds its jacket" when boiled, and its 

 flavor is particularly mild and delicious. 



The vines, while of neat, compact, upright growth, make large, healthy foliage 

 which has so far proven blight proof. The tubers grow bunched compactly in the 

 hill, permitting close planting, rows 2 to 2 J feet apart and hills 9 to 10 inches apart, 

 with only one eye to a hill. Under this method the potatoes will grow as nearly 

 alike as peas in a pod and yield surprisingly large crops. 



Not the least of the merits of Henderson's Early Russet is its wonderful keeping 

 quality. Although it matures so early yet it will keep — properly stored — in prime 

 condition, firm and plump, until June. (See cut.) 



Price, 40c. per lb., 3 lbs. $1.00 (postage paid), or if buyer pays expressage or 

 freight, $1.75 peck, $6.00 bushel, $12.50 barrel. 



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