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EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN— Vegetable Seeds 



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m^ I # # ** M I J #^ ^ Root Crops. The sack is 2% bushels 



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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 years 

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

 on his farm at Woodcliff 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 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 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, 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. 



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

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

 production. I bought a peck of them which produced l\i bushels; 

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

 splendid seed.' 



JACOB BERGMANN, 

 Sept. 14, 1927. Westbrook, Conn. 



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Improved Green Mountain 



A reliable medium late Potato. It seems to thrive in all soils and in all 

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

 white skinned tubers of handsome flattish 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, peck $1.50; bush. $5.00; sack of 165 lbs. 

 net weight $10.00; 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 

 loam or sandy soil it is a wonder 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 snow-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. $5.50; 

 sack of 165 lbs. net weight $11.00; purchaser pays transportation 

 charges. 



Henderson's Bovee 



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

 Yield! Outyielding all of the Earlies. 



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 

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

 markably good quality. (See illustration.) Price, peck $1.75; bushel $6.00; sack of 165 lbs. net 

 weight $12.00; 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, peck $1.50; bush. $5.00; sack of 165 lbs. net weight 

 $10.00. 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 necessary 

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

 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, peck $1.50; bushel $5.00; sack of 165 lbs. net weight $10.00; purchaser pays 

 transportation charges. 



Early Ohio Potato. Exlra-earlv, maturing about two weeks before the Early Rose; almost round; 

 flesh solid, cooks dry and mealy. Price, peck $1.50; bushel $5.00; sack of 165 lbs. net weight $10.00; 

 purchaser pays transportation charges. 



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

 peck $1.50; bushel $5.00; sack of 165 lbs. net weight $10.00; purchaser pays transportation charges. 



Spaulding 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, peck $1.50: bushel 

 S5.00: sack of 16S lbs. net weight $10.00; purchaser pays transportation charges. 



An Ideal Potato Fertilizer — Henderson's Garden Fertilizer offered on page aei is rich in potash, phosphoric acid and all of the 



other essential elements required to grow quality potatoes. 



