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The Qpouxn Jeuael Potato. « m m 



The Crown Jewel Still Leads as <he Earliest and Best of all Extra Early Sorts. 



Every claim we have made for it has been fully substantiated by more than five hundred of our largest potato growers 

 and truckers for early market, all of whom vote it as the very earliest and finest they have everseen. It is a seedling of the 

 Early Ohio. The seed-balls were found in a large field of that well-known variety, and it partakes of all the pure and 

 unadulterated qualities of its excellent parent, without any admixture of baser blood. Its skin is white and smooth, eyes 

 shallow, but strong, flesh pure white and floury, cooking evenly throughout. The vines grow vigorously, the roots extend 

 very deeply into the soil, thus resisting drought, and its keeping qualities are equal to the best. Its extreme earliness 

 makes it the most profitable potato tor early market or home consumption. Lb., .30c.; 4 lbs., $1.00, post-paid ; peck, 

 6oc.; bush., $l.T.i; bbl. of 3 bush., W.OO; 5 bbls., $19.00; 10 bbls. and over, $3.75 per bbl. 



Bliss' Tmatnph, OP impttoVedBet^muda Potato. 



This beautiful variety combines the wonderful productiveness of the Peerless with all the good qualities of the Early 

 Rose, is much more productive, and matures its crop at least a week in advance of the Early Rose. Tubers are of medium 

 size, round and uniform in shape, with but a very few small ones; eyes slightly depressed ; color a beautiful light red ; flesh 

 fine grained and excellent flavor. 



The tubers grow compactly in the hill and are easily harvested. It is an excellent keeper, not inclined to sprout early. 

 Its great beauty, productiveness and fine quality will make it one of the best market varieties in cultivation. It is now 

 being planted on the Island of Bermuda to the exclusion of nearly all others, having supplanted almost entirely the old 

 Bermuda potato, and is the first potato to reach our markets from the Bermudas. It has become so popular in some sections 

 of the South that, notwithstanding we grew large crops the past two seasons, the entire stock was exhausted before the 

 selling season was half over, obliging us to return many orders. Lb., 30c.; 4 lbs., $1.00, post-paid; peek, 65c. ; bush., $1.75; 

 bbl., 3bush., $4.00; 10 bbls. and over, $3.75 per bbl. 



tjUPEil ISieo:! Vot^key, ISlo. 2, Potato. 



This, the best intermediate and main crop potato, originated on the experimental grounds of the Rural New 

 Yorker, where more than five hundred varieties have been tested practically during the past twelve years. It has been tried 

 there and elsewhere for several years with much care, and critically watched by its experienced originator for the develop- 

 ment of weak points, any of which would have caused it to be promptly discarded. So far it may well lay claim to being a 

 perfect potato, and is so pronounced by hundredsof our largest potato growers, who are now planting their whole crops with it. 



The "Rural New Yorker, No. 2," is a potafo of most distinct appearance, and could readily be distinguished among a 

 hundred others. It is very large and unusually smooth, witli few and shallow eyes ; in form it is oblong, inclining to round, 

 the skin is white, as is the flesh, which is of superiorquality. 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 unmarketable size. Lb., 30c.; 4 lbs., $1.00, post-paid; peck, 65c.; bush., $1.75; bbl., 3 bush., $3.75; 

 10 bbls. and over, $3.50 per bbl. 



Somefl^inl f^eW— Pofaio G^es by Mail, Postage Paid 



/DrM SaOo f?iiit< riic+i7\morc Mnnoi) Owing to the heavy expense of sending potatoes long distances, by express 

 »| U ^syclV^:r WUl v;^U01Ulll«ia /'VUllt:;^ and freight, we last season adopted a plan of sending out potato eyes by 

 mail to any part of the world, which will enable our customers (no matter how far away) to test the new and choice varieties 

 of northern-grown seed potatoes we oft'er, at trifling cost. The way we do this is to cut out the eye with a piece of the potato 

 attached, and asuflicient depth to insureits vitalityafter being transported thousands of miles. After the eyesarecutoutthey 

 are carefully packed with damp moss in boxes made thin and strong, carefully labelled and sent to their destination. When 

 received they should be carefully removed from the boxes, care being taken to note the labels on dift'erent varieties. If too 

 soon to be planted out-doors, they should be placed with damp earth in a box Tvhere there is no danger of freezing. We 

 send out none but the strongest and best eyes, which will produce crops as good as if the whole tubers were 

 planted. Owing to the amount of labor attached to preparing and packing the eyes for safe shipment, we can only 

 offer the eyes of the newest varieties, described above. For Sl.OO we will send, ail postage paid, 60 good strong 

 eyes of either Crown Jewel, Bliss' Triumph, or Kural New Yorker, No. 2 ; 100 eyes for SI. 50, or 200 for $2.00. For 

 S3.00 we will send 100 eyes each, post-paid, of all three of the new potatoes, Crown Jewel, Bliss' Triumph and Kural 

 New Yorker, No. 3. This collection of three hundred eyes will produce thirty to forty bushels of nice potatoes. 



CROWN JEWELS PLANTED APRIL 7TH, DUG JUNE 



ACRE.' 



14th— 67 DAYS. OVER 200 BUSHELS TO AN 

 JOHN KERNS, CLARKSBORO, N. J. 



