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PETER HENDERSON & CO.. NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



HENDERSON'S NEW POTATO 



EARLY RUSSE 



This NEW SEEDLING is POTATO PERFECTION. The EarHest 



Grown and the Best Early Grown. Big, Rehable Yielder, 



Handsome, Heahhy, of Superfine Quality, and a Good 



Keeper. 



Henderson's early Russet we believe to be not only the earliest 

 potato grown but the best early potato grown. It is a seedling 

 of 1903, bred from two famous early varieties, and grown in 

 Maine, the " potato paradise," which produces the best seed 

 potatoes in America. 



In earliness Henderson's Early Russet leads the field, usually 

 being large enough for cooking in eight weeks from planting, 

 and in 9 to 10 weeks is fully matured. 



It is a very handsome potato of rounding, oval form, very 

 uniform, in shape and size averaging 4 to 5 inches in length — 

 sometimes larger, seldom smaller. The eyes are on the surface 

 and very shallow. The skin of creamy-buff is netted golden 

 russet, nature's hall-mark, as all critics know, of potato quality 

 — which axiom is fully sustained in Henderson's Early Russet 

 lor the flesh is fine-grained, as white as snow, cooks dry and flourj' 

 " sheds its jacket " when boiled, and its flavor is particular!}' 

 mild and delicious. 



The vines, while of neat, compact, upright growth, make large, 

 healthy foliage which has so far proved to be blight proof. The 

 tubers grow bunched compactly in the hill, permitting close 

 planting, rows 2 to 2^ feet apart and hills 9 to 10 inches apart, 

 with only one eye to a hill. Under this method the potatoes 

 will grow as nearly alike as peas in a pod and yield surprisingly 

 large crops. 



Not the least of the merits of Henderson's Early Russet is its 

 wonderful keeping quality. Although it matures so early yet 

 it will keep — properly stored — in prime condition, firm and 

 plump, until June. (See ciit.^ 



Price, buyer pays expressage or freight, $1.00 peck, $3.00 

 bushel, $6.00 bbl. of 165 lbs. net weight (net cash.) 



" This season has been the driest I ever sauj. Xo rain whatever -juhile early 

 potatoes were growing, yet your Early Russet beat all other early kinds, such as 

 Irish Cobbler. Bliss. Beauty of Hebron, Queen. Dewdrop, etc.. hardly any of these 

 being of salable size." W. E. JOHNSON, Leominster. Mass. 



" Your Russet Potato IS early. The latter part of February, as an experiment, 

 I cut som^ and put them in soil in the greenhouse to sprout and planted them ottt 

 March 3d. thev were ripe and dug May 3d — A fine lot of good eating potatoes." 



JAMES PATTERSON, Bent. Texas. 



HENDERSON'S 



EARLY BOVEE POTATO 



HENDERSON'S BO'VEE is not only an extra early potato, but 

 it takes a leading place among the heavy cropping varieties, 

 an unusual thing among first earlies. It is even earlier than 

 Early Ohio, while in all competitive trials, " Bovee " lias ont- 

 yielded all the early Potatoes, and in many of the tests it has 

 outyieldcd even the late varieties. The vine is dwarf and stocky, 

 enabling it to be planted six inches closer than nearly all other 

 varieties, which results in a much larger return per acre, and is 

 a feature of great importance where land is valuable. The 

 tubers grow remarkably close, all bunched together in the hill 

 close up to the vine. They size up to marketable tubers more 

 evenly than any Potato we ever saw; none too large or too small; 

 practically the whole crop being merchantable and the quality- 

 is perfect. We have only one warning — it is apt to prove dis- 

 appointing on poor soil or with poor cultivation, as it sets so 

 freely the tubers are apt to be small. But on good Potato 

 ground, well fertilized and cultivated, no other early Potato 

 surpasses it. {See cut.) 



Price, 70c. pk., $2.50 bush., $5.00 bbl. of 165 lbs., net weight 

 (net cash.) By express or freight at purchaser's expense. 



" / wish to say that your Bon)?e Potato is the best early that I ever raised. I 

 have grown it for two years now and find it very early producing a large crop even 

 in poor land." A. ELY, Rutherford N. J. 



" Your Bovee is the best early potato we liavi ever had. They yield well, are dry 

 and mealy, and their flavor is excellent." J. E. A. GIBBS, Raphine, Va 



IRISH COBBLER POTATO. 



A very fine early variety extensively grown for market m 

 some localities. The tubers are very handsome, almost round 

 averaging very uniform in shape and size. Flesh white and of 

 excellent quality, skin, cream and buff with whitish netting 

 This is a ven,- reliable variety and heavy cropper. 



Price, 65c. pk., $2.25 bush., $4.50 bbl. of 165 lbs. net weight 

 (net cash.) By express or freight at purchaser's expense. 



SIR Walter Raleigh Potato 



A grand main crop potato, forming tubers of uniform large 

 size — oval in form and of the finest quality, the flesh being fine 

 grained, white — cooking dry and mealy. It is very productive 

 and a splendid keeper. 



Price, 65c. pk., $2.25 bush., $4.50 per bbl. of 165 lbs., net 

 weight (net cash. ) By express or freight at purchaser's expense. 



FOR OUR COMPLETE LINE OF SEED POTATOES, 15 VARIETIES, SEE PAGE 43. 



