COLE'S VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



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[SEED POTATOES. 



Of the many new Potatoes sent out every ~year, and 

 that we have been testing, we select a few of the very 

 best varieties. This section of Iowa is famous for 

 growing fine Potatoes; and immense quantities are 

 shipped to all parts of the country every season. We 

 catalogue some new varieties and hope our customers 

 will give them a trial. It has been proven beyond dis- 

 pute that it pays farmers well to plant these new varie- 

 ties. It is no more labor io raise them than the older, 

 run-out varieties and they often yield fully double in 

 quantity and far better in quality. We have the Pota- 

 toes we offer all in store, and at prices below we shall 

 sell as long as our stock lasts. At the pound price we 

 prepay postage. At peck, bushel and barrel rates pur- 

 chasers have to pay express or freight charges ; no 

 charges for bags, barrels or packing. All orders 

 will be booked, and filled in rotation as received. We 

 commence shippiog as soon as danger from freezing 

 on the way is over, except at the risk of purchaser. 



POLARIS POTATO. 



POLARIS. This new early Potato seems to have cre- 

 ated quite a sensation, and there seems to be no 

 question, that the Polaris is the coming early Potato. 

 While the originator of this remarkable Potato does 

 not claim for it perfection, he does, however, insist 

 that it combines more essential qualities of a first-class 

 Potato than any other variety It is of long, oval shape, 

 creamy white in color, cooking white as finest flour. 

 Is hardy, prolific, handsome, early, a good keeper, 

 and as a table potato has no superior. With the orig- 

 inator it has yielded at the rate of 600 bushels per 

 acre. It has made for itself a wonderful record since 

 its first introduction, which is set forth in the reports 

 and testimonials of those who have tested it. Per 

 lb., 30 cts., 3 lbs., 75 cts., pk., 50 cts., bush., $1.25, 

 bbl., $2.50. 



EAKLT PUiSITAN POTATO. 



EARLY PURITAN. This magnificent new variety 

 originated with Mr. E. L. Coy, of Washington County, 

 New York, who is widely known and recognized as 

 one of the foremost authorities on potatoes in this 

 country. The skin and flesh are very white, it coi,L8 

 dry and floury, and is equal in quality to that of the 

 .^nowflake, than which there can be no higher standard 

 too compare by. But the chief value of the Early 

 Puritan Potato Ues in its great productiveness; 

 planted under exactly the same conditions, it has thus 

 far yielded nearly double that of the Early Rose and 

 the Beauty of He ir.m. It ripens as early as the Early 

 Rose, but, unlike that variety, the tubers when half 

 grown are wouderf n ly dry and fit for the table. The 

 vi-QfVJ also are more vi,(Torou« ^han those of any earlv 

 variety we are acquainted with, and are of an upright 

 growth. Per lb.. 30 cts., 3 lb., 75 cts., pk., 50 cts. 

 bush., $1.25, bbl., $2.50. 



SUPEBIOB POTATO. 



BURPEE'S SUPERIOR. Decidedly one of the best 

 for Main Crop. This handsome and valuable new 

 SeedUng Potato, originated in Washington Co., N. 

 Y., from a seed ball found in a field of White Star. 

 In shape it somewhat resembles its parent, but is 

 more compact in form. It is usually covered with a 

 fine netting, which always denotes a fine cooking 

 quality. Its vigorous habit of growth enables it to 

 withstand disease to a remarkable degree. The eyes 

 lie very even with the surface. Both skin and flesh 

 are very white. The tubers grow so compactly in the 

 hill that they are easily harvested byhand or machine. 

 They are medium late and are the inost profitable 

 for main crop of all varieties. They cook easily and 

 quickly all through, having no hard or grainy core. 

 Its texture is mealy, its flavor delicious and peculiarly/ 

 rich and delicate. Vines are strong and stand firm. 

 Foliage heavy, and, as a northern Vermont testimonial 

 shows, this enables it to withstand the ravages of 

 bugs, — much better than forty other varieties growing- 

 in same field Per lb., 30 cts., 3 lbs., 75 cts., pk., 5» 

 cts , bush., SI. 25, bbl., $2.50. 



DEliAWARK POTATO. 



THE DELAWARE. A valuable new Potato; sent out 

 by Mr. Gregory, who says : Among the scores of new 

 varieties of potatoes which I receive for trial every 

 year of their originators, while I find many possess 

 some excellent characteristics, yet I rarely find one 

 so far surpassing the varieties already before the 

 public as to deserve an introduction; last season, 

 however, in my large trial plat, I found one new seed- 

 ling so superior in yield and size, and, when tested 

 by cooking, in quality, to the other varieties growing- 

 there, that I purchased it of the originator, and now 

 Introduce it to my customers. 



The average form is shown in the engraving ; it is 

 medium early ; in size it is large, being above the 

 average; the skin and flesh are white; in yield it is a 

 remarkable cropper., while in quality is first-rate, 

 being dry and mealy. Per lb., 30 cts., 3 lbs., 75 cts., 

 pk., 50 cts., bush., $1.25, bbl., $2.50. 



RURAL NEW YORKER No. 2. This new potato, 

 which originated on the experimental grounds of the 

 Rural New Yorker, is described as follows : "It is 

 a potato of most distinct appearance, and could readily 

 be distinguished among a hundred others. It is very 

 large, and unusually smooth, with few and shallow 

 eyes; in form it is oblong, inclining to round, and 

 rather flattened ; the skin is white, as is the flesh, which 

 is of a superior quality. In maturity the variety is 

 intermediate, and its solidity and vigor are such that 

 it has rotted less in very wet seasons than any of the 

 numerous sorts grown with it. The vines are heavy 

 and strong, and the yield of handsome tubers of great 

 uniformity of size is unusually large— less than ten 

 per cent of the potatoes dug have been of unmarket- 

 able si2;e." Per lb., 35 cts., 3 lb., 90 els., pk., 75. cts., 

 bush., $2. 



