90 THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1906 
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THE FREEMAN. 
(Potato Seed. Seed from the Flower Ball. | 1 have choice potato seed 
——$—$—$— from the flower ball, for those 
~who wish to experiment in the production of new sorts. 
three years to bring seedlings up to a marketable size. 
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: THE FREEMAN POTATO. 
~ The Potato that sold for $3.00 per pound in | 
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1891. iIthas more than surpassed 
all claims made for it. 
The Freeman is a strong grower, containing 
fresh, vigorous blood. It is early in reaching 
maturity, productive, and universally admitted 
to be the finest flavored potato on the market. 
Mr. W. D. Freeman, the originator, says this 
grown in 1885. The tuber is oval in shape and 
russet in color. The flesh is very white, both raw 
and when cooked, fine grained and of best flavor. { 
/ treme earliness and long keeping qualities. 
/ From the time the tubers are as large as hens’ 
eggs until new potatoes come the next year they | 
burst open when boiled with their jackets on, 
and appear snow white and floury. 
“I planted some of my Freemans,” says the 
originator, ‘on June 4th, and on July 28th, I dug | 
the first mess of fine potatoes for dinner. | 
“They grow very quickly, and ripen here sey- 
eral weeks in advance of Early Rose. My first 
= general planting this year was ready to be put in 
It requires 
Packet, 15 cts. 
nine pounds from a single hill, and in rich | 
ground there are few small ones.” } 
Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1,00, postpaid. 
By express or freight, peck, $1.00; bushel, $3.00; barrel, $6.00. 
Irish Cobbler. 
I have never listed this variety until this 
season, but the last year or two, so many of 
my customers have inquired about it, that last 
-year I raised a crop. It is a most excellent 
-extra early variety, maturing good size tubers 
‘seven weeks from time of planting. It has 
also the remarkable characteristic of producing 
~very few, if any, small potatoes, all the tubers 
being of marketable size. The vines make 
short, upright growth, so that the hills may be 
~only a short distance apart. The flesh is pure 
white, with a clean, smooth skin; and in qual- / 
‘ity they are excellent, always cooking dry and 
mealy, ‘They are splendid keepers, and taking 
it all in all, it is a first-class sort and worth the 
the attention of all potato growers. Pound, 
-30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mail, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, 75 cts.; 
bushel, $2.50; barrel, 35.00. 
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Last year I had to give away 
Bye hundreds of barrels of Seed 
Potatoes when the bottom fell out of 
‘the market; but this year Seed Pota= 
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Bliss’ Red Triumph. 
A WEEK EARLIER THAN ROSE. 
Extremely prolific and a full week in advance of Early Rose. (Same as | F 
Improved Bermuda, Stray Beauty, etc.) Color, a beautiful light red. Size, 
medium. Growth, very uniform. Shape, nearly round. The flesh is white; very 
, mealy when cooked. This potato is in exceedingly high favor with Southern | 
market gardeners and truckers, and is shipped to the Northern markets in |}, 
enormous quantities in the early spring. It grows well at the North. The eyes |. 
|| are Slightly depressed and the skin is smooth, making a handsome early potato 
in barrel or basket. Its beauty, good quality, extreme earliness and great produc- re 
tiveness make it highly profitable. 
Pound, 30 cents, 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mail, postpaid. By express 
or freight, not prepaid, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.50; barrel, $4.75. 
Improved Green Mountain. 
This is a most excellent late potato, it does remarkably well on poor soils, and is _ | 1 
very free from disease; it resists drought wonderfully well, and produces tubers of |} ” 
large size and attractive appearance; flesh white. It is a good keeper, and when | 
put away in the fall will keep in good condition until time for the new crop. 
Pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mail, postpaid. By express 
or freight, not prepaid, peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.50; barrel, $4.75. 
potato came from true seed of the so-called 4) 
Silver Tip variety, the seedling having been 4) 
Hiiiy The greatest merits of the variety are its ex- { 
the cellar August Ist, being then thoroughly ripe | 
and vines dead. I have frequently dug six to | 
