Has not only equalled but 



surpassed all claims 



made for it last 



year. 



Unanimously pronounced by 



all who planted it a 



perfect wonder. 



[N 1892, I made the statement that the boom for Free- § 



e 

 man's had only just commenced; I flattered my self's 



then that I knew exactly what I was talking about, 1 



and so it has proven. £ 



Last year, although I went into the season with £ 



thousands of bushels of these potatoes, much to my g 



regret and to the regret of hundreds of my customers, § 



more than $1800 had to be returned to friends whose | 



orders it was impossible to fill, from the fact that I was | 



entirely sold out ; and this money was sent me notwith- 1 



standing the fact that I advertised in all the leading JJ 



agricultural papers stating I was sold out, and could I 



furnish no more Freeman's at any price. I 



Is there a potato since the introduction of the Early * 



Rose that has made such a record ? I think not, and * 



what is more, the record made for the Freeman in | 



1893, is certain to eclipse any previously made by this 



wonderful variety. 



Last 3^ear I devoted five pages of my catalogue to c 



the Freeman, and gave it a colored plate. This year I "i 



do the same, which is something unheard of in the § 



American seed trade. In this connection I cannot do £ 



better than quote as follows from last year's Seed Catalogue : I 



c 



' ' I have never before given half so much space to any one variety of seed, plants or small fruits, for the simple reason 2 

 that I have never had anything to which I felt that I could afford to devote so much space. 3 



But the Freeman has not been equalled since the introduction of the Early Rose, and that explains it. 3 



Where there are to-day hundreds extolling the Freeman as 'the best of all,' this time next year there will be thous- * 

 ands, and in 1893 the friends of Freeman will be numbered by the tens of thousands, every one of whom I think will be I 

 carefully saving every tuber to sell for seed. B 



It takes a long while in a country with a population of over sixty millions for any one thing to become thoroughly a 

 introduced, no matter what its merits, but if given time, Freeman is bound to get there. A new variety like the Freeman, \ 

 appears at intervals of a quarter of a century, and is not an everyday occurrence, but something so unusual that every s 

 dollar invested in Freeman this year, should next year readily make a money return to every purchaser of over 1000 per > 



cent. How many of my customers are going to let this opportunity slip through their fingers ? " t 



B 



The Freeman Potato is as much of a novelty to-day as it was a year ago, and every dollar | 

 invested in the Freeman in 1893 is sure to make as big return, as every dollar invested last year!; 

 will make this season. ' \ 



Notwithstanding the season was unusually poor in every section of the country, Freeman I 

 passed through the ordeal all right. My own crops amount to about 5000 bushels. 



While I have no doubt that every potato could be sold at last year's prices, still it will be f 

 noticed I have reduced the price considerably ; but reserve the right to decline all ten barrel \ 

 orders at any time, as I very much doubt if I will be able to furnish Freeman in ten barrel lots 1 

 for any length of time. _ | 



Prices of ft eemafi for 1893 : ££&.* 



cts., 3 pounds, $1.00, postpaid; half peck, $1.00 ; 

 half bushel, $2.50; bushel, $4.00; barrel, $7.50; 

 : 2 barrels, $12.50 ; 10 barrels, $55.00. 



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