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For Illustrations and Descriptions, see iNovelties, page 13. 



A NEW MAIN CROP POTATO— The Best one Yet. 



TABLE KING. 



THE TABLE KING, first in- 

 troduced and named by us last spring, 

 is a new seedling originated in Wash- 

 ington County, the banner potato 

 county of New York State. Tested 

 the past season in different States by 

 some of our largest potato growers, it 

 has outyielded all other potatoes nearly 

 two to one, and is destined to become 

 the best and most popular all- 

 around potato on the market. 

 The skin is a light russet color, with 

 few and shallow eyes The flesh is 

 snow-white, remarkably dry, smooth 

 and floury when either baked or boiled. 

 Their flavor as a table potato is not 

 exceeded by any variety that grows. 

 The vines are unusually strong and 

 healthy. The tubers lie compact in 

 the hill, ripen medium early, and are 

 entirely free from scab, rot or disease 



AN AVERAGE TTJBEB OF TABLE KING, THE HANDSOMEST POTATO GROWN. q£ ^jjy Jjind. There wlll be a dcmaud 



for seed in 1898, at good prices, for all that can be grown in 1897. Price, tubers, lb. , 40c. ; 3 lbs., ^i.oo, 

 post paid ; peck, 75c.; bush., I2.25 ; bbl., $5.00 ; 5 bbls. and over, $4.75 per bbl., by freight. 



THE- CARMAN No. 1. f^nt^e^^^e'^falkTo^^to. 



Originated by the celebrated editor of the Rural New Yorker, who produced the " Rural New 

 Yorker No 2." It is a seedling from other seedlings raised through several generations, always retaining 

 those with best qualities. It is medium in season, shaped like the Rural No. 2, and has very few shallow 

 eyes. The flesh is unusually white and the quality perfect. It is considered by many of the best potato 

 growers in the country the most promising second early variety recently introduced. Lb., 40c.; 3 lbs., 

 ^i.oo, post-paid ; peck, 6dc. ; bush., I1.50 ; bbl., I3.50 ; 5 bbls. and over, I3.25 per barrel, by freight. 



THE PENN MANOR POTATO. 



This variety was originated from a seed-ball of the Early Rose by one of the largest growers of that 

 historic country, a few miles north of Philadelphia, known as Penn's Manor. It has been critically 

 tested and planted by some of the most extensive potato growers, who all agree in saying they have 

 never found a hardier or more productive variety, doubling the Early Rose in yield It is fuller at the 

 ends, and has a skin in color a lighter pink than Early Rose, ripening a few days earlier, and with 

 heavier foliage, which 

 -withstands the beetle to a 

 remarkable extent. It 

 also withstands severe 

 drought better than any 

 variety we have ever 

 grown. Avariety destined 

 to supersede Early Rose. 

 Price, per lb., 40c. ; 3 lbs. , 

 fi.oo, post-paid; peck, 

 60c.; bush., $1.50; bbl., 

 $3- 50; 5 bbls. and over, 

 $3.25 per bbl., by freight 

 or express. 



William C. Durliam, Mount 

 Kiseo, N. Y., April 9, 1896, 

 ^vrites: "The new potatoes 

 obtained from you for our 

 experimental plot yielded 

 largely and were exhibited 

 ■with credit to you for seed at 

 Bedford Farmers' Club. The 

 Penn Manor yielded at tlie 

 rate of 304 bushels per acre, 92 

 per cent, marketable; quality 

 excellent, the choice for our 

 table." 



POTATO EYES OF THE NEW VARIETIES BY MAIL. 



For $1.00 we will send, all postage paid, 50 good strong eyes of either Early Tliorouglibred, 

 Pride of the South, Table King, Penn Manor or Carman No. 1 Potatoes, or for $3.00, 



250 eyes, 50 of each variety, separate and carefully labelled and packed in damp moss. These eyes 

 will produce as good crops as if the whole tubers were planted, and enable customers residing at long 

 distances to get these valuable new varieties at a trifling expense. 



PHOTOGRAPH OF AN AVERAGE TUBER OP THE NEW PENN MANOR POTATO. 



