- GOOD - EARLY - POTATOES. 
The Polaris Potato. 
North, South, East and West, from the Pa~ 
cific to the Atlantic, the Polaris Potato has df 
made a Name for Itself. - - - é | 
For years the demand has been so great for this su- 
perb potato as to nearly exhaust the supply, my sales | 
annually running into the carloads. The Polaris is of || 
long, oval shape and a creamy white in color, cooking as 
white as the finest flour. It originated by nature’s own 
processes; is hardy, prolific, handsome, early, and a 
good keeper, and as a table variety has no superior. 
With the originator, it has yielded at the rate of 600 bush- 
els peracre. It has certainly made for itself a wonder- 
ful record during the last few years, wherever grown. 
There is no question in my mind but that the Polaris is 
one of the best early potatoes, and not one of my custo- 
mers investing in this variety will regret his purchase. 
My stock came to me direct from the originator in Ver- 
mont, and I would respectfully solicit early_orders. If POLARIS. 
you desire Simon-pure stock of the Polaris Potato, you 
~ should send your order direct to headquarters. 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.00; barrel, $4.00. 
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This excellent new early potato comes 
from Maine, from where during the last eight 
or ten years, it has been sent all over America, 
and given the best of satisfaction to all who 
have planted it. It is certainly a very fine, 
large size early potato, resembling the White 
Elephant and Beauty of Hebron in color and 
shape. In addition to being very early, they 
are of excellent quality, as well as a superior 
¥ yielder. One grower reports that the Queen, 
¥ planted April 13th, were ready to dig June 17th 
65 days after planting, and that, on account of 
their extreme earliness, he was able to sell 
them in the Philadelphia market at $1.50 per 
bushel, when a week or ten days later, on ac- 
count of a tremendous crop all over the coun- 
try potatoes were only bringing about 50 cents 
per bushel. I have a remarkably choice stock 
of The Queen potato this season, which I take 
pleasure in offering my customers at the fol- 
lowing prices: 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, 
by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, 
peck, 75 cents; bu., $2.00; bbl. $4.00. 
Address all orders to WM. HENRY MAULE 
Carman No. 1. CARMAN 
Of superior quality. A’*remarkably good 
keeper, and the best yielding second early; 
hills frequently containing 8 to 15 hand- 
some, marketable tubers. - = 
The Carman No. 1 is a seedling from seedlings raised 
through several generations, with the object of develop- 
ing good and suppressing undesirable qualities. It is 
intermediate in ripening, and resembles the Rural New 
Yorker No. 2in shape, and also in having very few and 
shallow eyes. The fiesh is very white and quality 
perfect. A large grower in New York State reports: 
» The tubers were cut to single eyes, so as to make the 
— seed go as far as possible. They made the most lux- 
uriant growth I ever saw from so little seed. This va- 
riety is proving to be an enormous producer of very 
handsome tubers. They grow very large. In fact, there 
are scarcely any small ones among them this year. In 
my opinion, Carman No. 1 will make a great sensation 
among growers, as soon as its enormous productiveness 
and superior table qualities are known. To illustrate 
this would say that fifteen bushels of tubers planted 
the past season, cut to single eye, gave the remarkable 
yield of over eleven hundred bushels of merchantable 
potatoes under ordinary cultivation. If you want the 
best second early potato known to-day, you should not 
fail to plant Carman No. 1. Offered for the first time in 
1894 at $26.00 per barrel; and willno doubt be quoted at 
a higher price than I offerthem this season .by various 
seedsmen and potato dealers. But having harvested a 
large crop, am prepared to offer them as follows: 
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| if they are forsale. From what I have seen of this potato, and from what friend 
Terry tells me of it, I think it is certainly an acquisition.” 
THE VERY FIRST SALE OF 
I swe above, rrote Mr. R é y d le i ave 
MAULE’S EARLY THOROUGHBRED. |svatreisforsi00. In reply to this, Mr. Root replied. as follows: 
| “T wrote you a card from Penfield, O. yesterday morning, telling you I would 
‘ * 105 ww S take 5 barrels of potatoes for $100.00. I simply send this in confirmation of the card 
Mr. A. I. Root, of Medina, O., under date of Oct. 11th, '95, wrote: of yesterday. Can you tell me briefly something about the quality of the potatc 
“Can you furnish me one pound, more or less, of the potatoes that Mr. T. B, | Terry said he had not tried them, as they were too valuable to cook, even a small 
© Terry describes in THE PRACTICAL FARMER of Oct. 5th? TI visited him yesterday | one. Send by great Western Despatch on through rate to Medina.” 
and saw the potatoes; but, of course, he wouldn't want to either sell or give them For description and illustration of Maule’s Early Thore 
Essay without consulting you, and I thought perhaps I had better buy of you direct,' oughbred Potato, see page 7. 
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