POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



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New Potato, The Crown Jewel. 



We have been growing this valuable new potato for four years, and feel we cannot say too much in its praise, as every 

 claim we have made for it lias been fully substantiated by every one who has given it a trial. It is a seedling' of tlie Early 

 Ohio. The seed-balls were found in a large field of that well-known variety, and it partakes of all the pure and unadulter- 

 ated qualities of its excellent parent, without any admixture of baser blood. Hundreds of our customers who have tried it 

 the past two seasons say it is the earliest and finest they have ever seen. Grown in competition with the Early Oliio, Early 

 Rose and Sunrise, it more than doubled the yield of any of them ; under precisely the same conditions, they were ready 

 to dig fully a week earlier, and were pronounced by competent judges of the finest table quality, both baked and boiled. 

 The Crown Je^vel is a strikingly beautiful potato, the shape is well depicted in our illustration, skin is white and smooth, 

 eyes shallow but strong, flesh pure T\'hite and floury, cooking evenly throughout. The vines grow vigorously, the roots 

 extend very deeply into the soil, thus resisting drought, and its keeping qualities are equal to the best. The Crown 

 Jewel has come to stay at the very top round of the ladder, and there will be a demand for seed in 1890 of all that 

 can he grown in 1889. Lb., 40c.; 3 lbs., Sl.OO, post-paid by mail; peck, $1.00; bush., S3.00; bbl., $7.00, by freight or 

 express. 



THE CROWN JEWEL— A JEWEL INDEED. WHAT OTHERS SAY. 



"RtTRAIi NE-W YOEKEE." 



That well-known agricultural paper, the Rural New 

 Yorker, thought so highly of this new potato that they had a 

 large engraving made of it which appeared in a recent num- 

 ber. The editorial notice published stated that the yield on 

 their grounds was "at the rate of 726 bushels to the 

 acre, and proved earlier than the Early Beauty of Heb- 

 ron." Such a statement made by as conservative a paper as 

 the Rural Neio Yorker, "who annually test hundreds of new 

 potatoes, proves conclusively its great value and distinctive 

 good qualities. 



FIKST SHIPMENT IN THE STATE. 



Dr. J. Zack T.wlor, Deal's Island, Md., an extensive 

 trucker for New York and Philadelphiamarkets, Sept. 15, 1888, 

 writes : "A ' jewel ' indeed I find in the Crown Jewel Potato, 

 which was fit to eat ten days ahead of any other variety, and 

 yielded beyond anything I ever saw ; tops short ; ■will grow in 

 poorest of sandy soil. I am an experienced trucker, and kno^v 

 of what I am talking. My first shipment was ahead of any 

 in the state, and brought seventy-five cents more per barrel." 



T"WO "WEEKS AHEAD OF EARLY OHIO. 



H. B. Miner, Mediapolis, Iowa, Sept. 29, 1888, writes: 

 "I bought of you last spring one-half peck of Crown Jewel 

 Potato, from which I dug, in seventy-six days from the time 

 I planted, twelve bushels of as fine potatoes as I ever saw. 

 They beat the Early Ohio more than double and two weeks 

 quicker in growth. The ground was not manured at all; 

 after laying the potatoes it became very hard and needed 

 rain, but at this time it was very dry or I would have had far 

 more." 



StrPERIOK TO EIGHT OTHER VARIETIES. 

 L. F. BiENSiNGBB, Slatington, Pa., writes: "I planted 

 the Crown Jewel Potato by the side of eight other varieties; 

 find it, far superior in yield, earliness, size and quality." 



EARLIEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE EVER 

 GROMTN. 



D. J. Coleman, Great Barrington, Mass., writes: "The 

 rapid growth and early maturity of your Crown .Jewel Potato, 

 was the subject of remark among all my neighbors. I pro- 

 nounce them decidedly the earliest and best yielding potato 

 I have ever grown." 



