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EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN— Vegetable Seeds 



POTATOES 



FOR CULTURE. Etc.— Send for 



our pamphlet Garden Culture of 



Root Crops. The sack is 2}i bushels 



or 165 lbs. net weight 



NEW BLIGHT-PROOF POTATO 



Northern Spy 



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

 Four Years* Trial by Experts Prove it to Be Blight-Proof. 



NORTHERN SPY has been grown and tested for four vears 

 by H. W. Collingwood, late editor of The Rural New Yorker, 

 on bis farm at Woodcliff Lake, N. J. 



In the issue cff 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 experi- 

 enced, furnishing ideal conditions 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 NORTHERN 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 NORTHERN SPY get its resisting powers? 

 Is it some new arrangement of cells, or is it a great gift from 

 Nature, as some of my neighbors seem to think. I wish I 

 knew!" ' 



NORTHERN SPY is not an early variety, it is Rink- 

 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 leather-like toughness which 

 accounts for its disease resisting and insect resisting qualities 

 to some extent. It boils as 'well as any other potato and is 

 specially good when baked. (See illustration.) 



Price, half peck $2.00 (sufficient for 65 feet of row); 

 peck $3.00 (sufficient for 130 feet of row); bushel of 60 lbs. 

 $8.00 (sufficient for 520 feet of row). Purchaser pays 

 transportation charges. 



"I wish to tell you about the Northern Spy Potatoes that I bought 



rom you last Spring. They are more than wonderful in size and 



production. I bought a peck of them which produced ~i\i bushels: 



many weighing from one to two pounds. I thank you for such 



splendid seed. 



Sept. 



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Improved Green Mountain 



1927. 



JACOB RERGMANN, 



Westbrook, Conn. 



An Ideal Potato Fertilizer- 



■J^ liabfe , medium late Potato. It seems to thrive in all soils and in all 

 whTte Ik™ f' f n i hea T, hea i thy vines ' and yielding big crops of large, smooth, 

 white skinned tubers of handsome flattish oval form. It cooks white, dry and 

 nrTZ'h??? u desirable flavor exclusively its own. It keeps well, and is 

 not liable to scab or decay Price, peck $1.75; bush. $6.00; sack of 165 lbs. 

 net weight $12.00; purchaser pays transportation charges. 



Uncle Sam 



Prodigious Cropper, Quality Perfect, White, Dry and Floury 



We believe Uncle Sam to be the" heaviest yielding variety grown. On a 

 rn^ m ,i r KT n y - 5 ?' 1 '■ ls a wond er in yield and quality. The crop averages 

 remarkably regular in size and shape. Its appearance and superb quality 

 when served satisfy the most fastidious, its flaky show-white appearance 

 gaining instant favor. The tubers are oval shaped, with light russet skin 

 very even in outline and with shallow eyes. Price, peck $1.75; bush. $6.00; 

 charges "^ Weiffht * 1200 : Purchaser pays transportation 



Henderson's Bovee 



A Marvel in Earliness! The Earliest of all. A Marvel in 

 Yield! Outyieldxng all of the Earlies. 



of lilf "?,' ° n ' y ^Y^" 1 Produce its crops in great abundance, and yields a very large percentage 

 of perfectly formed tubers. The cultivator can be used to better advantage on a crop of Bovee thfn 



cropdosetn^he hHl g * "* Sh ° n ^ C ° mPaCt gr ° Wth ° f the vineS ' and itf habi'of slttin^he entfre 

 „J^°r e \ Perh » PSm0re u than any other sort - delights in a rich soil, responding more generously to 

 c^lcTnTtLnsTt ^n P ^ r SOi ' conditions, frequent and thorough cultivation a^d fairly good 

 climatic conditions it will yield an abundance of medium-sized potatoes of perfect shape and re- 



wei^ht L!°r^ qUaht £- {S ° e M**""™-) P "", P~k $2.00; bushel $7.00; P sTck of 165 lb^. net 

 weight $14.00; purchaser pays transportation charges. 



Irish Cobbler 



Th»f?' f? r y y; a " et y- Producing large, handsome tubers, uniform in shape and size. 



The flesh is white, and of excellent quality; the skin very light .brown, with whitish netting It is 



Il 2 1» ' "p^ ^ lllust ; ali ^) P " ce . P~ k $1-75; bush. $6.00; sack of 165 lbs. net weight 

 $12.00. Purchaser pays transportation charges. "■»«* 



, r fc Sir Walter Raleigh 



The vfn^f- «r varieties for a main crop, and is admirably adapted to general cultivation. 



Za£S£ f av f rage s,ze - but *> vigorous that they stand erect long enough to allow necessary 

 sktneUTnd ^^c^T^r^ ^ ° f """*■ SHghtly ^ Ud ^ ^ h ' whi " 



thorof^K^nfiinHnff fl ly J mPr ° Ved WheD St0red in a co ° l drv cellar " Whe " cooked it breaks up 

 flavor g Pr!r£ ^l fi £ t y ' uTL^ 1 ** 1 *?*',* 4 once appetizing and indicative of its superior 

 r^n.portaU^h.fiel?' *"** * 6 °° ; *** ° f 165 lb "- "* Wei * ht * 1200 > P-chaser^y. 



nesU^.F^kT dr^ud £*!£*'"■& malur j"gahout two weeks before the Early Rose; almost round; 

 porlat,™ VwrftV Cal> P ""' PeCl4 *'- 73: bushel **■<*>• «"* S«2-00: Purchaser pays tra^ 



E. S „yi^ t *£,fc tSSfePTSftyaSfc somewh'af "r^^r.-.ur than the regul„ 

 S6.00, sack $12.00; purchaser Pays tr a n> P »" taHon chalet. "'""* *" "* *""' "^ ^^ bU * hcl 



Henderson's Garden Fertilizer offered on page 198 is rich in potash. phosphorous and all of the oth.r 

 •ential elements required to grow quality potatoes. 



