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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. 



SEED POTATOES, 



with no other seed is the Importance of a change more necessary than with the potato. 

 We offer a few selected and of the choicest of the newer varieties, which are worthy of a 

 thorou^rh trial by all progressive farmers and potato growers. 



With the potato old varieties seem to run out, and it has been found absolutely necessary 

 to plant new varieties with new blood and vigor to insure large crops of potatoes, and they wlli 

 prove far superior to old stock in EARLY MATURITY, INCREASED YIELD, and VIGOR- 

 OUS GROWTH. Our stock has been grown in the North expressly for seed purposes, well 

 selected, hand-picked tubers. 



Would advise potato growers to secure and test the leading new varieties. 



We book orders at any time, and fill in rotation just as soon as the weather will permit, 

 except at the risk of purchaser. At prices named we make no charges for bags, boxes, bar- 

 rels or drayage. 



TO AVOID DELAY, when ordering late in the season, it would be well to mention your 

 second choice provided we should be sold out of variety ordered. 



At the pound price we send by mail prepaid; at peck, bushel and barrel rate, they are sent by freigk 

 or express at expense of purchaser. 



POUND PRICES. All varieties at 30 cts. per lb., 3 lbs. for 75 cts.. prepaid. 



New Extra Early Potato. 

 The Bovee. 



THE BOVEE. This variety is claimed to be 

 the earliest and greatest cropper of all earlv 

 potatoes. The introducers, Peter Henderson 

 & Co., describe it as follows: "All reports 

 received proclaim it to be a wonderful intro- 

 duction among early potatoes. Not only is 

 it the best earliest, but it takes a leadinir 

 place among the cropping varieties, an 

 unusual thing among the first earlies. It is 

 even earlier than Early Ohio, and compare.*; 

 favorably with the Triumph, a light cropping 

 variety that has only extreme earliness to 

 recommend it, while the BOVEE in all com- 

 petitive trials has outyielded all the early 

 potatoes, and it has even outyielded many 

 of tlie late varieties. The vine is dwarf and 

 stalky, tubers round and smooth; they grow 

 closely bunched together in the hill. Thev 

 size up to a marketable size more evenly 

 than any potato we ever saw; practically tho 

 whole crop being merchantable. Its eating 

 quality is extra fine. Price per i/o pk. 35 cts.. 

 pk. GO cts., bu. ?1.50, 3 bu. 5;4.00. 



EXTRA EARLY OHIO. This standard extra 

 early sort matures about two weeks before 

 the Early Rose. It is widely known and 

 deservedly popular in all parts of the countr.>. 

 It has given better satisfaction over a wider 

 range of country than any other variety. 

 Our choice Northern grown seed is at least 

 ten days earlier than Southern grown stock, 

 and will out-yield them by far. Experienced 

 gardeners wUl have no other seed at any 

 price. Per pk. 40 cts., bu. $1.25, 3 bu. $3.25. 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



Sir Walter Raleigh Potato. 



A GRAND NEW MAIN CROP POTATO. 

 Mr. Carman's best introduction, the only 

 seedling of the well-known Rural New Yorker 

 that is better than its parent. It resembles 

 its parent but is more uniform and yieias 

 practically no small tubers, every one being 

 marketable. It is from four to six days later 

 than the Rural New Yorker; the color of the 

 skin is the same, but the flesh is whiter and 

 of better quality; in fact, it is the whitest- 

 fleshed and finest-grained Potato, excelling 

 even the Snowflake. It is unquestionably 

 the best of its type and will soon become one 

 of our best main crop varieties. At the Rural 

 Grounds it proved the best and heaviest 

 cropper of 49 varieties, and at farms of three 

 potato experts in New Jersey, New York a"nd 

 Connecticut, it proved the most remarkable 

 of many varieties grown. Per V> pk. 35 cts 

 pk. 60 cts., bu. $1.50. 



