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The Potato that sold for $3.00 per pound in 
1891. It has more than surpassed 
all claims made for it. 
The Freeman Potato has fully realized the 
glowing predictions which I made for it at the 
time of its introduction, a dozen years ago. It 
proved to be a rival of the famous Early Rose, 
and my customers have made money out of it. 
The Freeman is a strong grower, containing 
fresh, vigorous blood. It is early in reaching 
maturity and enormously productive, and is 
universally admitted to be the finest favored po- 
tatoson the market. People say that when once 
used on the table it is sure to remain there, on 
account of its superlative excellence. 
Mr. W. D. Freeman, the originator, says this 
potato came from true seed of the so-called 
Silver Tip variety, the seedling having been 
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. 
The greatest merits of the variety are its ex- 
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. 
“IT planted some of my Freemans,” says the 
originator, “on June 4th, and on July 13th, thirty- 
nine days from planting, 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 
the cellar August Ist, being then thoroughly ripe 
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and vines dead. They are alsoa first-class yielder. I have frequently 
dug six to nine pounds from a single hill, and in rich ground there are 



THE FREEMAN. 
The testimony of the whole country is now quite similar in effect to 
the claims made by the originator. The Freeman has taken a position 
as one of our greatest standard early potatoes. 
Pound, 30 cents: 3 pounds, 75 cents, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 50 cents; bushel, $1.50; barrel, $3.75. 

BLISS’ RED TRIUMPH. . 
A WEEK EARLIER THAN ROSE. 
Extremely prolific and a full week in ad- 
vanee of Early Rose. (Same as Improved 
Bermuda, Stray Beauty, etc.) Color, a beauti- 
ful light red. Size, medjum. Growth, very 
uniform. Shape, nearly round. The flesh 1s 
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 quanti- 
ties 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- 
tiveness make it highly profitable. 
Pound, 30 cts.; 3 pounds, 75 cts., by mail, 
postpaid. By express or freight, peck, 
50 cts.; bushel, $1.50; barrel, $3.50. 
EARLY OHIO. 
FIRST IN MARKET. 
This well-known trucker’s favorite is a short, 
thick, round-oblong potato, of quite peculiar 
appearance. In color it is dull red. It matures 
a week sooner than Early Rose. It succeeds 
best in a rich loamy soil, and is not recom- 
mended for light or sandy land. The flesh is | 
solid, and of extra good flavor and mealy qual- | 

most profitable early sort. 
postpaid. By express or freight, peck, man. 
50 cts.; bushel, $1.50; barrel, $3.75. 

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EARLY BOVEE. 
This new extra early potato is of finest quality, of vigorous growth and of 
é . igh productiveness. It is smooth and handsome. It is named for Mr. Mar- 
favorite with market gardeners, and fully | tin Bovee, of Michigan, its originator. Itisa pink or fiesh-colored potato, of the shape indicated 
atone for its lack of beauty. It is notremark- by the illustration, though perhaps larger. The shape is very uniform. The skin is well netted. 
able as a heavy bearer, but its character sells | lt matures from early to extra early, and in table quality is white, dry and mealy. Of this po- 
it, and compels many truckers to call it their | tato the Rural New Yorker says: “It would appear that the Bovee is at least twelve days earlier 
than Early Ohio, but even though no earlier, the almost perfect shape of the Bovee would win 
Pound, 30 cts.; 3 pounds, 75 cts., by mail, | the prize every time over the shape of the EarlyOhio.” It is as perfect in shape as the Free- 
A heavy cropping potato, with stocky tops; tubers are bunched close together in the hill. 
Lb., 30c; 3 Ibs., 75c., postpaid. By express or freight, pk., 50c.; bu., $1.50; bbl., $3.50. 


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