From PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 



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The Horticultural World is Hungry for a Blight-Proof Potato 

 We Have Great Pleasure in ANNOUNCING 



That We Have Now Accumulated Enough Stock to Offer The 



NORTHERN SPY 



NEW BLIGHT- 

 PROOF POTATO 



A Medium Sized Pink-Skinned, White Fleshed Potato. A Good Keeper. Four 



Years' Trial by Experts Prove it to Be Blight-Proof 



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ROWING CONO.T.o 

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When we introduced Henderson's Eovee Potato in 1896, it created a gTeat sen- 

 sation in the horticultural world on account of its extreme earliness, which was 

 its most valuable characteristic. 



There were then some sceptics who doubted the genuineness of the claims ad- 

 vanced for Bovee, but they, along with others, were finally convinced by actual trial. 



Thirty years have elapsed since we introduced Bovee and it is still the earliest 

 potato grown in the United States. Moreover, its fame increases as the years roll by. 



Now, then, tlii-* year 1927, we offer another epoch-making: variety — long awaited 

 by the gardening fraternity— A BLIGHT-PROOF POTATO— NORTHERN SPY. 

 The stock we offer is derived from a "sport" of an old blight-proof English variety 

 and was grown in Nova Scotia. 



XORTHERX SPT has also been grown and tested for four years past by H. W. 

 Collingwood, editor of The Rural New Yorker, on his farm at \Voodcliff Lake, X. J. 



In the issue of that paper for September 25th, 1926, Mr. Collingwood writes: 

 "This year, 1926, has been the worst for blight I have ever known on my farm. 

 My men used certified seed, and the vines were properly dusted: yet when August 

 came with the worst blight weather I ever experienced, furnishing ideal condi- 

 tions for the blight germs, these certified vines began to fade away. The dark 

 green turned through all shades of light green to yellow, and then to brown, in 

 spite of all that we could do. 



"There could not be a harder test for a 'blight-proof variety; yet our XORTH- 

 ERX SPY Potatoes have stood up to it and here in the middle of September the 

 vines are still green and fresh in a field where certified Green Mountain and other 

 varieties are dead as pine stakes." 



"Where does XORTHERX SPY get its resisting powers? Is it some new ar- 

 rangement of cells, or is it a great gift from Xature, as some of my neighbors 

 seem to think. I wish I knew!" 



XORTHERX SPY is not an early variety, it is pink-skinned, white fleshed, a 

 wonderful cropper, a good keeper, and will stand up under heavy fertilizing. The 

 vines are long, the 



leaves small and have a ^SA §JfcSi P f ice , S2 " 5 ?. fo . r - ha,f 



leather-like toughness /% : -%*v peck (sufficient tor 6o feet of 



... f.f i..*- row). 54.00 per peck (suf- 



which accounts for its m v;> ficient for 130 feet of row), 



disease resisting and JR Bfc>. S12.00 per bushel of 60 



insect resisting quali- 

 ties to some extent. 

 It boils as well as any 

 other potato and is 

 specially good when 

 baked. 



(See engraving.) 



lbs. (.sufficient for 520 feet 

 of row). 



Purchaser 



pays transporta- 

 tion. 



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For other Varieties of Seed Potatoes see page 7 1 



