








up to a marketable size. Packet, 15 cents. 

Note order half pecks of potatoes at peck 
| ® rates; half bushels at bushel rates. 
WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Seed Potatoes—89 


Main Crop or Late Potatoes. 


GREEN MOUNTAIN 
Green Mountain Spee. 
Potato. 
An Improved State of Maine Potato. i 
This is a most excellent late potato; it does remark- 

ably well on poor soils, and is very free from disease; 
it resists drought wonderfully well, and produces 
tubers of large size and attractive appearance; flesh 
white. It is a good keeper, and when put away in 
the fall will keep in good condition until time for the 
new crop. Wk 
Lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., by mail, postpaid. By express 
or fgt., not prepaid, pk., 75 cts.; bu., $2.25; bbl., $4.50. 
POTATO SBEBD. : 
Seed from the Flower Ball. \ 
I have choice potato seed from the flower ball, for a ; 
those who wish to experiment in the production of ( 
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THE GHAMPION 
LATE SORT. 
A white-skin, main crop or late potato; the best 
of Mr. Carman’s introductions. It is a magnifi- 
cent new potato, much resembling Rural New 
Yorker No. 2, of which it is aseedling. It is decid- 
edly better than its parent, the tubers being quite 
uniform in size, with but few small ones among 
them. It is from four to six days later than the 
parent stock. The color is the same, the skin and. 
| flesh being white. In fact, it can be justly claimed 
for Sir Walter Raleigh that it is the whitest 
fleshed and finest grained potato on the whole list 
\) of main-crop varieties, not even excepting the 
Snowflake; and it promises to supersede all other 
sorts of its class on account of its sterling excel- 
lence. On the trial grounds of the Rural New Yorker 
it proved the best and heaviest cropper of 49 va- 
rieties. It does wonderfully well on my trial 
grounds at Briar Crest and Panmure. It will take 
the place of Carman No. 3, which it equals in all 
respects, and which it excels in table qualities. It 
was given to the world as late as 1897, under the 
claim of being Mr. Carman’s best. That claim has 
been sustained. In field culture it has gone above 
450 bushels to the acre. Its record in all respects 
= entitles it to rank with the very best late potatoes 
= now grown upon American soil, and no progres- 
sive cultivator should fail to give it a trial. 
Lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., by mail, postpaid. 
= > = By express or freight, not prepaid, 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH POTATO. peck, 75 cts.; bushel, $2.25; barrel, $4.75. 
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There are some small people in the seed business, | 
as well as in other lines of life. There are some business houses that if any of their competitors introduced the best 
thing on earth, and they knew it was the best variety, they would not list it under any circumstances. I have known | 
certain houses to wait ten years before listing varieties of seeds of particular merit, and then they only did it because their 
trade absolutely demanded it. Henderson’s Bush Lima Bean was first offered to the public in 1888; in the fall of 1887, 
being in New York, I called on my old friend, the late Peter Henderson, and then for the first time learned of their bush 
lima, the first one of its class. When I went out of the office I had given them an order for 20,000 packets of this bean at 
their regular price, and in 1888, the same year as they first offered it to the public, I was glad to be able to offer Henderson’s | 
Bush Lima Beans in my seed book to my customers. This is what I consider good fellowship; it did not hurt me at all, 
_and it is unnecessary to say P. H. & Co. were pleased to book among their first orders, 20,000 packets of this bean for 
Wm. Henry Maule, of Philadelphia. This is one of many similar instances, and whenever a good thing comes along, } 
which Henderson’s Bush Lima certainly is, I am glad when I can offer it to my customers the same year as the 
introducer, or at least the year following. 




