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BLISS EARLY TRI- 

 UMPH OR IMPROVED 

 BERMUDA. — One of the 

 best early potatoes, 

 combining' the produc- 

 tiveness of the Peerless 

 with the excellent quali- 

 ties of Early Rose. It 

 is more prolific than the 

 former, and much earli- 

 er than the latter. 

 Tubers are medium in 

 size, round and very uni- 

 form in shape; eyes 

 slightly depressed and 

 color of a beautiful light 

 red and is a standard 

 variety. 



GREEN MOUNTAIN. 

 This potato is of great 

 merit; oval in shape, 

 white skin and white 

 flesh; one of the largest 

 yielders; of fine keeping 

 qualities; very dry and 

 delicious flavor. We 

 recommend it highly. 



CARMAN No. 1.— This 

 most valuable potato 

 was introduced in 1894,. 

 and it is now a recog- 

 nized high-class sort the 

 world over. It is in 

 every respect the finest second early potato ever offered; enormous yielder; handsome 

 and uniformly large; peculiarly white skin and flesh; perfect in quality and very dry. 



IRISH COBBLER. — A comparatively new and very early variety, extensively grown 

 for market and shipping purposes. The tubers are very handsome, almost uniform in 

 shape and size. Flesh white and excellent, skin cream with buff and white netting. It is 

 a heavy cropper and has been extensively planted in the East and West and is going to 

 be largely planted in Louisiana. Mississippi and Texas. We recommend it highly. 



WHITE ELEPHANT. — A fine late variety of 

 excellent quality, fine flavor, wonderfully produc- 

 tive; of great beauty and a fine keeper. Tubers 

 large and solid, growing closely together in the 

 hills. 



THE GEM SEED POTATO CUTTER. — TTas all 

 the essential features necessary to a (irst-class 

 tool. It will cut any size potato in pieces uni- 

 form in size, thereby insuring more accurate 

 planting when power planting is used. The 

 operator, to get the best results, will pick up the 

 tuber, look for the seed or blossom end, passing 

 it over the knife on upper side of pressure lever, 

 thus removing the cause of so many empty 

 potato hills in your potato patch. Then, accord- 

 ing to size of potato, place it on knives so that 

 ^ hen lever is pushed down it will be cut into 

 either two. four or six: or. if a very large one, 

 split it. and cut each half into as many pieces as 

 its size will require. From six to eight bushels 



saving in time alone will more than pay for this 



ce $2.50. 



Bliss Early Triumph or Improved Bermuda. 



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can be 

 cutter the 



FORMULA FOR SCALY POTATOES. — One pint of formaldehyde to 30 gallons of 

 water, soaking the seed potatoes in the solution two hours before planting, allowing 

 them to dry thoroughly before cutting. As the formaldehyde solution does not lose its 

 strength, keep on using the same solution as long as there are potatoes to be planted. 

 This is very effective. 



SWEET POTATOES. 



For Price List See Red Pages in Back of Book. 



Convolvulus Batatas. 



CULTURE. — The Sweet Potato is. next to corn, the most important food crop in the 

 South. They are a wholesome and nutritious diet, good for man and beast. Though cul- 

 tivated to a limited extent on the sandy lands of New Jersey and some of the Middle 

 States, it thri\es best on the light rich lauds of the South, which bring their red and 

 golden fruits to greatest perfection under the benign rays of a Southern sun. It is a 



Largest Wholesale and Retail House In the South. 



