THE "BOVEE" POTATO 



The Earliest of all, and a great Cropper. Of Unsurpassed Quality. 



Though offered for the first 

 time this year, tliis Potato 

 has had a considerable dis- 

 tribution in small quantities, 

 and the reports received pro- 

 claim it to be a -wonderful 

 introduction among early 

 Potatoes. Not only is it the 

 earliest, but it takes a lead- 

 ing place among the heavy 

 cropping varieties, an un- 

 usual thing among first 

 earlies. It is even earlier 

 than Early Ohio, and com- 

 pares favorably with Tri- 

 umph, a light cropping 



variet}' that has only extreme 

 earliness to recommend it. 

 while the "Bovee" in all 

 competitive trials has out- 

 yielded all the early Po- 

 tatoes, and in many of the- 

 tests conducted by Experi- 

 ment Stations and private- • 

 growers, it has outyielded 

 even the late varieties, in- 

 cluding such heavy-cropping- 

 kinds as Carman No. 1, Em- 

 pire State, Kural New-Yorker 

 No. 2, Irish Daisy, ^rown- 

 ell's Winner, Maggie Murphy, 

 Great Divide and others. 



THE MOST MARVELOUS RESULTS WERE OBTAINED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA EXPERIMENT STATION, 



■where it ripened ten days ahead of Early Ohio| and other varie- 

 ties, and in an average yield for two years was fifty bushels 

 per acre more than any other varieties under test, most of 

 which were late and admittedly heavy-cropping varieties, including 

 Irish Daisy, Delaware, Maggie Murphy, Great Divide, Carman No. 



1 and Carman No. 3. The vine is dwarf and stocky, and the tubers 

 grow remarkably close, all bunched together in the hill close up to 

 the vine. (See cut.) They size up to a marketable sise more 

 evenly than any Potato we ever saw ; none too large or too small ; 

 practically the whole crop being merchantable. 



THE PENNSYLVANIA EXPERIMENT STATION GIVES THE FOLLOWING REPORT: 



YIELD OF VARIETIES IN 1895. 



Order 

 of merit. 



NAME OF VARIETY. 



* The Bovee 



Early Everett 



New Queen 



Freeman 



Pennsylvania Best. 

 Carman No. 1 



Total 



yield 



per acre, 



bushels. 



403 

 350 

 338 

 329 

 327 

 322 



Date of 

 ripening. 



Aug. 22 



Sept. 6 



6 



Aug.. 30 



" 22 



Sept. 10 



Percent 

 of mer- 

 chantable 

 tubers. 



94 

 86 

 90 

 86 

 86 

 92 



AVERAGE YIELD FOR TWO YEARS, 1895-1896. 



Order 

 of merit. 



NAME OF VARIETY. 



The Bovee 



Carman No. 1 



Delaware 



Late Puritan 



Eose of Erin 



Brownell's Winner. 

 Irish Daisy 



Total 



yield 



per acre, 



bushels. 



356 

 312 

 305 

 306 

 296 

 277 

 255 



Date of 

 ripening. 



Aug. 14 



Sept. 2 



2 



2 



Aug. 25 



Sept. 2 



2 



t The Early Ohio stands No. 18 in order of merit in this report, with a. total yield per acre of 204 bushels, or about half the yield of The Bovee. 



Per cent. 



of mer- 

 chantable 



tubers. 



94 

 95 

 94 

 96 

 97 

 94 

 92 



* The Bovee was the only variety that was up on May 13th, the night of the heavy frost (31 degrees F.), and was frozen off level with the ground. 

 31st it had completely recovered and was considerably in the lead of the other varieties. 



By .May 



Those who have tried the "BOVEE" POTATO write; 



"From our small trial, it would appear that The 

 ' Bovee ' is at least twelve days earlier 

 than Early Ohio, but, even though no earlier, 

 the almost perfect shape of the ' Bovee ' 

 wonld win the prize every time over the 

 poorly shaped Early Ohio. It is as perfect in 

 shape as the well - advertised Freeman and less 

 variable. It is probably three weeks earlier, and will 

 yield more per acre, with a smaller proportion of 

 unmarketable tubers." The Rural New-Yoekkr. 



Wickatunk, N. J. 

 "The 'Bovee' Potato was planted at the same 

 time alongside Early Ohio, Early Acme, Quick Crop 

 and Triumph, and, though the vines matured no 

 earlier than Triumph and Early Ohio, the tubers 

 sized up more quickly and could be mar- 

 keted ten days ahead of any of the above. 

 The ' Bovee ' also yielded one-third to one- 

 half more than Early Ohio and Quick Crop, 

 and more than double the Triumph and 

 Early Acme, growing' along-side." 



.John L. Conovek. 



Aquebogue, L. I.. October 16, 1896. 

 "I think The ' Bovee ' is the best early 

 Potato we have both for yield, g-ood quality 

 and earliness. It was the best and earliest among 

 ten varieties." S. O. Benjamin. 



Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster. 



"Because of the blight which has been unusually 

 prevalent here, we have not been able to determine 

 the relative earliness of The * Bovee,' but there is 

 no doubt that it is quite early. 



" It seems to be quite as early as Early Ohio, 

 and there is no doubt but it is more prolific. 

 We regard it as very promising, and think that we 

 have had a chance to test it quite thoroughly, as we 

 hadthree plantings. It has uniformly given good re- 

 sults, hence we confidently recommend it. Below we 

 give the comparative yields of several early varieties : 

 The ' Bovee ' bushels per acre, 503 



Early Harvest. 



" Norther 



" Thoroughbred 



" Ohio 



" Rose 



W. J. Gbeen, 



449 



" ■• 415 



" 378 



•' 294 



" 263 



Horticulturist.' 



Miltord, Conn. 

 "The 'Bovee' is the best early Potato Z 

 know of. 1 have grown all the new kinds of Pota- 

 toes, and was one of the first to grow the Early Rose 

 and the Early Goodrich when they came out. For 

 eating purposes it is first-class, very dry and fine 

 grain, and I think better than the Early Kose 

 ever was in its best days. I believe it is at least a 

 week earlier than any variety I know of. It turned out 

 over 3uO bushels to the acre." C. W. Beaedsley. 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., October 10, 189B. 

 "The ' Bovee ' seems to be exceptionally prom- 

 ising." Agbiculturai, Experiment Station. 



Wooster, Ohio. 

 ' Uncommonly prolific for snch an early variety." 

 The Ohio Agricultural Experimeni Station. 



Rural Experiment Grounds, Bergen County, N. J. 

 "You know that one of my trials was to find out 

 what varieties (new) are really earlier than Early 

 Ohio. Well, I found that The ' Bovee ' is at 

 least ten days earlier. Furthermore, it is 

 as good in shape as the Freeman and more- 

 uniformly so ; the quality is fine." 



E. S. Carman, 

 Editor of the Rural New-Yorker. 



Amherst, Mass. 

 " The • Bovee ' yielded at a rate above any other 

 in trial, and we consider it to be a very promising 

 new variety." The Hatch Experiment Station. 



Dubuque, Iowa, October 12, 1896. 

 " The ' Bovee ' is far more prolific than the 

 Early Ohio, which was tried alongside." 



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