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^ JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA ^ 



SEED SWEET POTATOES 



We make a specialty of Seed Sweet Potatoes, growing 

 our stock exclusively in New Jersey, about nine miles from 

 our Philadelphia warehouse, where we have unequalled 

 facilities for handling and storing. New Jersey grown sweet 

 potatoes are everywhere acknowledged to be the best in 

 quality, being mueli dryer and sweeter than those grown 

 in the South and West, wliile their keeping and shipping 

 qualities are away ahead. We pack for shipment in boxes 

 and barrels, with greatest care; but as they are very suscep- 

 tible to climatic changes, we cannot hold ourselves resi;ion- 

 sible for their condition after long journeys of several hundred 

 miles, and wish it distinctly understood that customers 

 take ALL, RISKS after we deliver in good Condition to the 

 express or railroad company here. We do not ship until 

 about planting time unless specially ordered to do so. Our 

 barrels contain three bushels — good measure. Full 

 and concise directions for bedding and sprouting the seed, 

 setting out and cultivating sweet potato plants, also harvest- 

 ing and storing for winter, \vi\\ be found in our new Leaflet- 

 Essays on Sweet Potato Culture, which we will send 

 free with all orders when requested to do so. 



Photograph of Section of Field Grown by the Originator for 



us, of the NEW VINELAND BUSH SWEET POTATO. 



Vineland Bush Sweet Potato 



The New Vineland Bush Sweet Potato is bound to 

 revolutionize sweet potato culture. It originated on the 

 farm of John Maytrott, the extensive sweet potato grower of 

 New Jersey, from the well-known Early Nansemond and old 

 Vineland Sweet Potato. It is a perfect bush, with no inclin- 

 ation for spinning, resembling a bean bush very closely. 

 The tubers grow directly under the stalk. They are most 

 abundant bearers, good flavor, handsome rich yellow color 

 and excellent keepers. Customers who have tried then: C2y: 

 " They are simply perfection and a great improvement ovet 

 all other vineless potatoes heretofore sold." 



or LNTEREST TO DAIRYMEN. Mr. Maytrott wrices: 

 " From 2,000 plants I had in one patch I harvested 86 baskets 

 of prime potatoes, 35 seconds and 27 culls, making a total of 

 148J^ bushel baskets. I then had the tops, which average 3 

 pounds each, which made 6,000 pounds of green forage, which 

 was eaten with great relish by my cows. The milk was 

 rich and had a sweet, pleasant flavor. All other stock except 

 horses thrive on it. By plantingin rows, 30 inches wide and 

 15 iiiches apart, one acre will contain about 14,000 plants. 

 With proper care you will have a fine crop of potatoes and 

 about Twenty-one Tons of Green Forage." 



Prices: per lb., 40e.; 3 lbs., $1.00, by mail, postage paid ; 

 peck, 81. .SO; bushel; S.5.00, by express. Plants of the New 

 Vineland Bush Sweet Potstc, ready after May 1st : 50 for 

 60c.; 100 for SI. 00, by mail, postage paid; 75c. per lUO ; 85.00 

 per 1,000, by express. 500 plants at 1,000 rates. 



EX TRA EARLY CAROLINA JERSEY " UP- 

 BIVERS" AND EARLY NANSEMOND. The justly 

 celebrated Philadelphia sweet potatoes, universallv grown 

 for market. Each, per peck, 80c.; bush., $2.50; bbl.,'$5.O0. 



We will make special prices by letter for larger 

 quantities— write us before j ou buy. 



Plants of the above, ready May 1st, ROc. per 100, by 

 mail , postpaid ; by express, 4Uc. per 100; S2.50 per 1,000. 



Our field of King of the Mammoths growing for seed, show- 

 ing their wonderful productiveness. See next page. 



One pound will plant two hundred to two hundred and 

 fifty hills; four to six pounds are required to plant one acre. 



SMALL EARLY SUGAR. A very handsome little 

 pumpkin, with deep orange-colored skin, and flesh of un- 

 usuallv fine sugary flavor — line grained, verv productive and 

 keeps well, Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; ^ lb., 20c.; lb., 60c. 



NANTUCKET SUGAR, or NEGRO. This pumpkin 

 is comparatively unknown outsideof a fewofthe far Eastern 

 States, where it is used exclusively in making the celebrated 

 Yankee Pumpkin Pieg. The skin is very dark green, 

 almost black, flesh thick and of a rich orange yellow. They 

 weigh from twelve to fifteen pounds and will keepfora year. 

 Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; }4, lb., 25c.; lb., 75c. 



CASHAW, or CR00KNT;CK. Most popular; splen- 

 did for tal>le or feeding stock ; skin and flesh light cream 

 color, solid and sweet. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOe.; J4 lb, 20c.; lb., 65c. 



JONATHAN, or LARGE WHITE CASHAW^. This 

 new pumpkin grows larger than the old Cashaw, with 

 creamy white skin. It is a good keeper, very prolific, 

 smootli, even and thick-fleshed ; very sweet and fine for pies 

 or feeding stock. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; }| 'l>i 25c.; lb., 7oc. 



GREEN STRIPED CASHAW. This is a great im- 

 provement on the old white Cashaw, being a distinct mottled 

 green and white striped. The flesh is a rich yellow color, 

 solid, fine grained, very thick, sweet and excellent for pies, 

 and equally good for baking. They are very hardy, bugs 

 seldom bother them, and yield a much heavier crop than 

 most other sorts. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; J4 ll> ■ 25c.; lb., 70c. 



MAMMOTH GOLDEN CASHAW. This variety dif- 

 fers from the white or cream-colored Cashaw in the outside 

 skin being of a rich golden orange color, and grows to a 

 much larger size. In its earl.v stages it is dark green, ripen- 

 ing to a warm rich yellow. The flesh is also much thicker, 

 sweeter and finer grained, and of a deep rich yellow color. 

 For making pies it is superior, while for stock feeding and 

 keeping it has no equal. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; 34 lb., 30c.; lb., 81. 



GOLDEN MARROW. A splendid pie pumpkin. 

 Shape, round oblong, slightly ribbed; skin is of a deep orange 

 color; the flesh fine and of excellent flavor. Cook soft and 

 tender, and are excellent keepers. The vines are very pro- 

 ductive and hardy. Pkt., 5c. ; oz., lOc; 3^4 lb., '2oc.; lb.,70c. 



L.4.KGE CHEESE, OB KENTUCKY FIELD PUMPKIN. 



LARGE SWEET CHEESE, or KENTUCKY FIELD. 



A most popular variety. Fruit flattened, as shown in above 

 photograph; skin mottled light green and yellow, changing 

 to rich cream color as it matures. Flesh yellow, thick, tender, 

 verv nutritious and of excellent quality; a most productive 

 varietv. Pkt., 5c.; oz.,10c.; 341b.,20c.; lb , 60c. 



COMMON YELLOW FIELD. Productive ; grown for 

 feeding stock. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; lb., 35c.; 10 lbs., 82.00. < 



