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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL 



Choice Seed Potatoes 



With no other seed is the importance of a change more essential than with the Potato. We offer 

 Fancy Northern Grown Stock, well selected, hand picked and treated for scab. No potatoes grown can 

 compare with Northern grown seed either for VIGOR, EARLY MATURITY, INCREASED YIELD, FREE- 

 DOM FROM DISEASE AND LONG KEEPING QUALITIES. 



We offer only a few varieties which have become standard sorts and have proven to be the best 

 varieties grown. 



We book orders at any time, and fill in rotation just as soon as the weather will permit, except at 

 the risk of purchaser. At prices named we make no charge for bags, boxes, barrels or drayage. 



TO AVOID DELAY, when ordering late in the season, it would be well to mention your second 

 choice provided we should be sold out of variety ordered. 



At the pound price we send by mail prepaid; at peck and bushel rate, they are sent by freight op 

 express at expense of purchaser. < 



POUND PRICES. All varieties at 25 cts. per lb., 3 lbs. for 65 cts., postpaid. 



NEW EXTRA EARLY 

 POTATO 



THE BOVEE 



THE BOVEE. This variety is claimed 

 to be the earliest and greatest cropper of all early 

 potatoes. All reports received proclaim it to be a 

 wonderful introduction among early potatoes. Not 

 only is it the earliest, but it takes a leading place 

 among the cropping varieties, an unusual thing 

 among the first earlies. It is even earlier than 

 Early Ohio. The BOVEE in all competitive trials 

 has outyielded all the early potatoes. The vine ib 

 dwarf and stalky, tubers round and smooth; they 

 grow closely bunched together in the hill. Its 

 eating quality is extra fine. Price per pk. 50 eta., 

 bu. $1.60, 3 bu. $4.00, 



EXTRA EARLY OHIO 



This stardara extra early sort matures aT)OUt two 

 weeks before the Early Rose. It is widely known 

 and deservedly popular in all parts of the country. 

 It has given better satisfaction over a wider range 

 of country than any other variety. The tubers grow 

 corny ct in the hill, are easily dug, very few small 

 ones, nearly all being of marketable size. They 

 keep firm till late in spring and by many preferred 

 for eating in winter. This variety is sold by many 

 as Extra Early Six Weeks. Our choice Northern 

 Grown seed is at least ten days earlier than Southern 

 grown stock, and will out-yield them by far. Exper- 

 ienced gardeners will have no other seed at any 

 price. Per pk. 40 cts., bu. $1.35, 3 bu. $3.75. 



THE BONANZA 



This late variety is growing in popularity here in 

 the middle west. It is undoubtedly the very best 

 potato for a farmer to grow who wants a good yield 

 and is particular as to quality. The Bonanza comes 

 nearer to the old fashioned Peachblow that was 

 famous years ago in the com belt. They are shaped 

 somewhat like the Rural New Yorker, light red skin, 

 fine white flesh, extremely dry and mealy. They are 

 very hardy, making an extra heavy g^rowth of vine, 

 which generally indicates a good yield of potatoes. 

 No other variety but this is saleable here for the 

 home market. Per pk. 40 cts., bu. $1.25, 3 bu. 

 $3.50. 



NEW WHITE OHIO 



The introducer of this variety say^: The Early 

 Ohio has been said to be "the best Potato that 

 grows in the grround." A western grower who has 

 been using this seed found, four years ago, a plant 

 producing pure white Potatoes, identical in every 



way with the best of the old Ohio, except in color, 

 whicu is a fine white. It has given the best of satis- 

 faction the past few seasons, for every locality where 

 a white Potato is the popular market color, this flnt 

 new White Ohio is bound to be the money-making 

 bread winner. Per pk. 50 cts., bu. $1.50, 3 bu. 

 $4.00. 



NEW WHITE OHIO 



CARMAN NO. 3 POTATO* 



GRAND MAIN CROP POTATO 



The fame of this Potato is abroad in the land 

 wherever Editor Carman, of the Rural New Yorker, 

 is known. Without any approach to an exception it 

 is the greatest yielder ever introduced. It may fairly 

 be claimed that it does not yield any small tubers 

 at all. It bears its tubers very close to the plant, a 

 single turn of the fork turning out every potato. It 

 is of the largest size and of the shapeliest form, &a 

 will be seen from our illustration. It is a perfect 

 keeper, that is, it will not sprout up to planting 

 time, unless kept in a warm place. Both skin and 

 flesh are of extreme whiteness. Eyes few and shallow. 

 Late in ripening. The introducer says our claims 

 for "Carman, No. 3" are: 1st. It is the hand- 

 somest large potato ever produced. 2d. It will out- 

 yield any other potato whatever. 8d. Practically 

 every potato is a marketable size. 4th. Its table 

 qualities are fully up to the highest standard, it has 

 no hollow hearts, and no dark parts. We are confi- 

 dent that it will soon be the most popular variety 

 for field culture, on account of its enormous produc- 

 tiveness and great beauty. Per pk. 50 cts., bu. 

 $1.50, 3 bu. $4.00. 



