58 Our 83 rd Year of Seed Specialization — Therefore of Progress 



POTATOES 



FOR CULTURE, Etc.— Send 

 for our pamphlet Garden Cutturt 

 of Root Crops. The sack is 2?4 

 bushels or 165 lbs. net weight 



New Blight- Proof Potatoes 



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 five years b> 

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

 his farm at Wooddin" Lake, N.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, furnish- 

 ing 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 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 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. $2.00 half peck (sufficient for 65 feet of row) . 

 $3.00 peck (sufficient for 130 feet of row); $8.00 bushel of 

 60 lbs. (sufficient for 520 feet of row) ; $16.00 sack of 165 lbs. 

 net weight Purchaser pays transportation charges 



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

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

 production. I bought a peck of them which produced 7 K bushels: 

 many weighing from one to two pounds I thank yuu for such 

 snlendid seed " 



JACOB BERG MA N N. 



Westbrook, Conn. 



Improved Green Mountain 



A reliable medium late potato. It seams to thrive in all soils and in all localities, 

 making heavy, healthy vines, and yielding big crops of large, smooth, whit* 

 skinned tubers of handsome flat tish oval form. It cooks white, dry and mealy 

 and has a desirable flavor exclusively its own. It keeps well, and is not liable 

 to scab or decay. Price. $2.00 per peck: $6.00 per bushel; $11.00 sack of 165 lbs . 

 net weight; 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 loam 

 or sandy soil it is a wonder in yield and quality. The crop averages remarkablj 

 regular in size and shape. Its appearance and superb quality when served 

 satisfy the most fastidious, its flaky, snow-white appearance gaining instam 

 favor. The tubers are oval shaped, with light russet skin, very even in outlim- 

 and with shallow eyes. Price, $2.25 per peck; $6.50 per bushel; $12.00 sack of 

 Itjo lbs net weight: purchaser pays transportation charges 



Henderson's Bovee 



A Marvel in Earliness! Outyielding all of the Ear lies 

 It is not only early, but produces 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 than any 

 other sort, owing to the short and compact growth of the vines, and its habit of setting the entire crop 

 close in the hill. 



Bovee. perhaps more than any other sort, delights in a rich soil, responding more generously to good 

 treatment; given the proper soil conditions, frequent and thorough cultivation and fairly good climatir 

 conditions, it will yield an abundance of medium-sized potatoes of perfect shape and remarkably good 

 quality. (See illustration.) Price, $2.25 per peck: $7.00 per bushel: $14.00 sack of 165 lbs net weight 

 purchaser pays transportation charges 



Irish Cobbler 



A fine, early variety, 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 a 



heavy cropper. (See illustration.) Price. $2.00 per peck; $6.00 per bushel: $11.00 sack of 165 lbs nei 



weight. Purchaser pays transportation charges 



Sir Walter Raleigh 



This is one of the best varieties for a main crop, and is admirably adapted to general cultivation 

 The vines are of average size, but so vigorous that they stand erect long enough to allow necessarv 

 cultivation. It produces an extremely large crop of round, slightly flattened tubers, smooth, whit* 

 skinned, and very attractive in appearance 



Its good quality is greatly improved when stored in a cool, dry cellar. When cooked it breaks up 

 thoroughly, presenting a flaky, snowy appearance, at once appetizing and indicative of its superior 

 flavor. Price, $2.25 peck ; $6.50 bushel : $12.00 sack of 165 lbs. net weight ; purchaser pays transportation 

 charges. 



Early Ohio Potato. Extra-early, maturing about two weeks before the Early Rose: almost round 

 flesh solid, cooks dry and mealy. Price. $2.00 peck; $6.00 bushel; $11.00 sack of 165 lbs. net weight 

 purchaser pays transportation charges 



Early Rose. The popular standard early : noted for earliness. productiveness and fine quality Price, 

 $2.00 peck; $6.50 bushel; $11.00 sack of 165 lbs. net weight; purchaser pays transportation charges 



Spauldin£ Rose No. 4 Potato. Handsome red tuber, somewhat flat, a little later than the regular 

 Early Rose but usually a better yielder. Fit to cook when large enough to dig. Price. $2.00 peck 

 $6.00 bushel: SI 1.00 sack of 165 lbs. net weight : purchaser pays transportation charges 



An ideal Potato Fertilizer - Henderson's Garden Fertilizer offered on pa|£e 201 in rich in potash, phosphoric acid and all of the other 



essential elements required to i£row quality potatoes 



