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The Favorite Extra Early. 
None More Quick to Mature—None 
Finer—None More Proof Against 
Drought and Blight. None so 
Free From Second Growth. 
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quantities, not more than 8 pounds being sold to ANY Yi 
a single customer. Eureka has certainly been well A\ 
named, for it combines more good qualities than 
any other extra early variety I know of 
As to its origin and history, the originator says 
of it: “Eureka Extra Early was a chance hill 
found growing in a field of Early Morn potatoes, 
season of 1895. In looking over the field a single 
plant was noticed distinct from the rest, which 
died while all the others were still green. 
“Stock has been worked up ever since, and it has 
never failed to produce a large crop of extra early 
potatoes. The plant is dwarf and compact, ma- 
turing in advance of the Early Rose and Bovee. 
It never has had the blight. The tubers areround, } 
slightly flattened. White skin, free from disease. 
Flesh, white and mealy; no cores or black specks. 
Quality unsurpassed. 
“One point alone which makes it valuable is 
that it has never taken second grewth, and resists 
drought better than any other potato I have ever 
grown. Grown side by side with the Bovee it 
produced a third more large tubers, and matured 
ten days in advance of Bovee. The potatoes were 
perfect, while the Bovee took second growth.” 
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North, South, East and West, Eureka the past 
summer came off with flying colors. I again 
‘advise early orders, for while my stock is large, 
the demand for Eureka is simply astonishing, 
jand the chances are that I will be sold out early 
in the season. 
Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, by mail, 
) postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 
1$1.00; half bushel, $1.50; bushel, $2.505 
) barrel, $5.50. 
The Reliance Potato. 
My friend, Mr. O. H. Alexander, of Vermont, some time ago called 
my attention to this new variety, in which he takes special pride. He 
stated that, as the original introducer of the Freeman, I was the only 
proper person to put his new Reliance on the market. I quote as fol- 
lows from Mr. Alexander’s description: ‘‘Alexander’s Reliance potato 
was raised in 1885 from a ball of Old Excelsior, which was one of the 
most prolific varieties in its day. The vines grow to a medium height; 
leaves large; tubers good size and handsome appearance, resembling 
‘somewhat the Snow Flake and the Freeman; they are roundish and 
slightly flattened; eyes small, Somewhat pinkish; skin white; flesh 
white; cooks well, so well indeed, that it is fully equal to the Freeman 
in quality. So far it has proven very hardy in my ground, outyield- 
ing the Green Mountain and maturing about six days earlier than 
that variety. This year has been an unusually hard year in this 
locality for potatoes, and it has given all my new sorts a hard test, 
but the Reliance yields the heaviest of any out of forty varieties.” 
Reliance was first offered.in 1904 by the pound only. This year I am 
glad to be able to offer it in quantity, although naturally the price is 
still high, as this is only the third year for Reliance. 
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Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, by mail, postpaid. 
By express or freight, peck, $1.25; half bushel, $2.00; bushel, 
$3.75; barrel, (234 bushels) $7.50. 
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Noroton Beauty or 
Uncle Gideon’s Quick Lunch Potato. 
It was an unfortunate thing last year that this new potato should have been intro- 
duced by two prominent seedsmen under different names; after thorough trial and 
investigation, there is no question in my mind but that they are one and the same. It 
is claimed by the originator to be the earliest potato ever grown; by far the most 
productive extra early, yielding as heavily as any of the medium early sorts, hand- = 
somer in appearance and more uniform in size and shape than any other variety; 
table quality superb, and it keeps longer than any other sort, early or late, and is the 
best all around potato in existence. Now while on my New Jersey farm, the potato =< 
did fairly well, yet I do not by any means consider it equal to the Eureka, and on light = 
soils I am confident Eureka will outyield it two to one. Furthermore. this potatu 
seems to be more liable to disease than it should be. Still, it is undoubtedly a very 
good variety, and I haye no doubt it will be largely advertised the coming season, so I 
take pleasure in offering my customers headquarters stock at the following prices: 
Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds; $1.00, by mail, postpaid. = SS — 
By express or freight, peck, $1.25; bushel, $3.75; barrel, $7.50. NOROTON BEAUTY POTATO. 
