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THE CROWN JEWEL POTATO. 
STILL IN THE LEAD AS THE EARLIEST AND BEST OF ALL EXTRA EARLY SORTS. 
We have been growing this valuable new potato for six years, and feel we cannot say too much in 
its praise, as every claim we have made for it has been fully substantiated by more than five hundred of 
our largest potato growers and truckers for early market, all of whom vote it as the very earliest and finest 
they have ever seen. See Sample Testimonials, page 62. Itis a seedling of the Early Ohio. 
The seed-balls were found in a large field of that well-known variety, and it partakes of all the pure and 
unadulterated qualities of its excellent parent, without any admixture of baser blood. Grown in competi- 
tion with the Early Ohio, Early Beauty of Hebron, Early Rose and Sunrise, it more than doubled 
the yield of any of them; under precisely the same conditions, they were ready to dig ten days 
earlier. The Crown Jewel is a strikingly beautiful potato, the shape is well depicted in ourillustration, 
skin is white and smooth, eyes shallow but strong, flesh pure white and floury, cooking evenly through- 
The vines grow vigorously, the roots extend very deeply into the soil, thus resisting drought, and 
its keeping qualities are equal to the best. Its extreme earliness makes it by far the most profitable 
variety for early market or home consumption. Lb., 40c.; 3 lbs., $1.00, post-paid by mail; peck, 90ce.; 
bush., $2.50; bbl., 234 bush., $5.00, by freight or express. 
: BLISS’ TRIUZAKPH, 
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IMPROVED BERMUDA POTATO. 
This beautiful variety combines the wonderful 
productiveness of the Peerless with all the good 
qualities of the Early Rose, is much more productive 
and matures its crop at least a week in advance of 
the Early Rose. Tubers are of medium size, round 
and uniform in shape, with but avery few small 
ones; eyes slightly depressed; color a_ beautiful 
light red; flesh fine grained and excellent flavor. 
The tubers grow compactly in the hill and are 
easily harvested. It is an excellent keeper, not 
inclined to sprout early. Its great beauty, produc- 
tiveness and fine quality will make it one of the best 
market warieties in cultivation. It is now being 
planted on the Island of Bermuda to the exclusion 
of nearly all others, having supplanted almost entire— 
ly the old Bermuda potato, and is the first potato to 
reach our markets from the Bermudas. It has 
become so popular in some sections of the South 
that, notwithstanding we grew avery large crop last. 
season, our entire stock was exhausted before the 
selling season was half over, obliging us to returm 
many orders. It is one of the few varieties that is 
steadily improving instead of deteriorating by age. 
E - Lb. 40e.; 3 Ibs., $1.00, post-paid ; ek, 90e.; bush. 
Bliss’ Triumph, or Improved Bermuda. $9.50 Gil 234 Rae Gat by freight. % 
Something New.—FPotato Eyes Hy Mail, Postage Paid. 
TO SAVE OUR CUSTOMERS MONEY. Owing to the heavy expense of sending potatoes long distances, by Express: 
- and Freight, we have this season adopted a plan of sending out Potato Eyes: 
by mail to any part of the world, which will enable our customers (no matter how faraway) to test the new and choice varieties 
of Northern-grown seed potatoes we offer, at trifling cost. The way we do this is to cut out the eye with a piece of the potato 
attached,-and a suflicient depth to insure its vitality after being transported thousands of miles. Aiter the eyes are cut out they 
are carefully packed with damp moss in boxes made thin and strong, carefully labelled and mailed to their destination. When 
received they should be carefully removed from the boxes, care being taken to note the labels on different varieties. If too soon 
to be planted out-doors, they should be placed with damp earth in a box where there is no danger of freezing. We send out 
none but the strongest and best eyes, which will produce crops as good as if the whole tubers were planted. 
Owing to the amount of labor attached to preparing and packing the eyes for safe shipment, we can only offer the eyes of the 
newest varieties. For $1.00 we will send all, postage paid, 60 good strong eyes of either Crown Jewel, Bliss? — 
2; 100 eyes for $1.50, or 200 for $2.00. For $3.00 we will send 100 eyes each, — 
Triumph, or Rural New Yorker, No. 2 
post-paid, of allthree of the new potatoes, Crown Jewel, Bliss’ Triumph and Rural New Yorker, No. 2. This collection of 
300 hundred eyes, if properly planted and cultivated, will produce 30 to 40 bushels of nice potatoes. 
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