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F. W. BOLGIANO & CO., INC., Washington, D. C 



MAINE SEED POTATOES 



See Inclosed Pink Sheet for Latest Prices on Seed Potatoes 



The HOULTON (MAINE) SEED POTA- 

 TOES are universally acknowledged to be the 

 best; grown in the cold North, where Nature 

 conspires against all but the strongest, we get 

 our best seed. For earliness and productive- 

 ness we are convinced that Maine-grown seed 

 are the best, and, in the long run, cheapest. 

 Why not take the same care in selecting your 

 seed potatoes as you would your cabbage ? Our 

 stocks have been grown for seed purposes, 

 and are carefully selected for yield and purity. 

 Get our prices before you buy. Several have 

 told us that seed gotten from our house yields 

 from 20% to 25% more than seed saved by 

 themselves. 



If shipments are requested during severe 

 cold weather, the tubers travel solely at pur- 

 chaser's risk. 



Trust Buster. (Bolgiano's new extra 

 early seed potato). The great success of this 

 new potato is assured from the wonderful re- 

 ports we have received the last few years. 

 It is not only early, but it is a heavy pro- 

 ducer of potatoes of the very finest texture 

 and quality. These potatoes are uniform 

 in size, color, and fine flavor. They are quickly 

 prepared for cooking, as the skin peals readily 

 and they cook dry and mealy. 



Irish Cobbler. The most popular of the 

 early varieties. Of handsome cream white 

 color and of excellent quality, making it most 

 desirable for the best trade. It is a vigorous 

 grower, ripens uniformly, and is a good keeper. 



SWEET POTATO ROOTS 



CULTURE. Don't wait for a rain or a 'season" to 



set out sweet potato plants. Harrow your ground well 



before laying it off, then throw up the ridges higher 



than you want them, and if the soil is very dry allow 



2 or 3 days for the moisture to rise ; then knock off the 



top of the ridge just ahead of planting ; make a mud hatter with water 



and clay loam, or, better, with the addition of fresh cow dung, about as 



thick as cream ; dip the plants, in hands of about 20, into this, so that a 



large Quantity of the mud clings to them. 



Big Stem Sweet Potatoes. They are of fine size, and 

 the yield has astonished our most critical trade. They make 

 only a very few, and in some cases no small roots. The 

 quality is first class. 



Jersey Sweet Potatoes. Are too well known to require 

 any description. We get these from reliable growers in 

 New Jersey. 



Sweet Potato Plants. Rooted slips ready in May. The 

 young plants should be set in May and June. 



Trust Busier Potatoes 



Prosperity" (the best second early and main crop 

 potato). Yields great crops of even, fine, smooth, large pota- 

 toes, even under the most unfavorable circumstances, and 

 can be relied upon to bring in good money. The flesh is as 

 white as snow, and cooks dry and mealy. The eyes are 

 even with the surface, the skin white, with rich, yellowish- 

 creamy cast, and considerably ruffled or netted. 



Green Mountain, or State of Maine. The best main 

 crop potato now on the market; fine yielder; fine flavor; fine 

 appearance. Free from blight and rot. Keeps well, and is 

 always ready for the table. 



Spalding'. Earliest Rose White in the world; good crop- 

 per; fine appearance. 



McCormick. Should be planted in July and early in 

 August. It is one of the heaviest yielders. 



Early Round Six Weeks. Ready for table in six 

 weeks. 



Ensign Bagley, or White Rose. An excellent crop- 

 per, smooth, not susceptible to disease. 



Red Bliss Triumph, or Improved Red Bermuda. 



One of the earliest varieties grown; its great productiveness, 

 handsome color and resistance to disease make it most popu- 

 lar. 



Houlton Early Rose. This is a popular potato; very 

 early; fine quality, and very productive. 



XX Early, or Early Ohio. This is a potato that 

 comes to us very highly recommended — one of the finest, 

 practically free from blight; rose color; productive. 



Treat Seed Potatoes 

 Semesan Bel 



With 



Semesan Bel is the new instantaneous disinfectant 

 for treating both white and sweet potatoes. In addi- 

 tion to controlling the common potato diseases, such 

 as scab, rhizoctonia, black rot, scurf, black leg, etc., 

 Semesan Bel is harmless to cut, whole or sprouted seed 

 pieces; actually preserves the seed piece against soil- 

 borne organisms; promotes earlier and more profuse 

 sprouting; improves the quality of the produce and in- 

 creases the yield by much larger percentages as to 

 make the cost of treatment a very profitable invest- 

 ment. Price, 4 ozs. 50 cts.; 1 lb. $1.75; 5 lbs. $8.00; 25 

 lbs. $31.25. Full directions for using Semesan Bel, as 

 well as a summary of the results obtained by promi- 

 nent potato growers and Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tions will be found in the Semesan Bel Potato Booklet 

 which we will mail free to your address on request. 



See Inclosed Pink Sheet for Latest Prices on Seed Potatoes. 



