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WHAT IS THOUGHT OF 



HENDERSON'S EARLY RUSSET 



POTATO. 



" Your new potato — Early Russet — is by far the best 

 cooking potato that I have ever tasted. * * * in some of 

 the hills there were as many as twenty potatoes. " 



L. S. BEAX, Presque Isle, Maine. 



"Your new Early Russet Potato has created much com- 

 ment in this neighborhood. To sample them I bought 1 

 pound from you and it yielded 35 pounds. We think them 

 a wonderful potato." 



CHARLES TUCKER, Westerly, R. I. 



"Your Russet Potato IS early. The latter part of Feb., 

 as an experiment, I cut some and put them in soil in the 

 greenhouse to sprout and planted them out March 3d; they 

 were ripe and dug May 3d — A fine lot of good eating po- 

 tatoes." JAMES PATTERSON, Bent, Texas. 



" The Early Russet Potatoes did well. We had some 

 baked today for the first time. A r ot in 40 years since I left 

 my boylwod home in Massachusetts have I enjoyed a 

 potato as I did your Early Russet. Words fail to ex-press 

 the glorious taste, so perfectly light and dry. It was a 

 dream. I made a meal of them, not wishing anything 

 else. " CHARLES F. EMER Y, Friday Harbor, Wash. 



HENDERSON'S NEW POTATO. 



EARLY RUSSET. 



IT IS POTATO PERFECTION. 



The Earliest Potato Grown and the Best Extra Early Grown. 



Reliable Yielder of Handsome Potatoes of Super' 



fine C^uality 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 8 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, for the flesh is fine-grained, 

 as white as snow, cooks dry and floury, "sheds its jacket" when boiled, and its 

 flavor is particularly mild and delicious. 



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

 which has so far proven 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 cut.) 



Price, 30c. per lb., 3 lbs. 75c. (postage paid), or if buyer pays expressage or 

 freight, $1.40 peck, $4.00 bushel, $8.00 barrel. 



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