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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 

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

 compare with Northern grown seed either for VIGOR. EAKLY 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^he risk of purchaser. At prices named we mak? 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 variet}' ordered. 



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

 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 

 \-ine is dwarf and stalky, tubers round and smooth; 

 they grow closely bunched together in the hill. 

 Its eating quality is extra fine. Price per pk. 

 cts.. bn .$1.00. .S hu. S2.7.5. 



EXTRA EARLY OHIO. This standard 



extra early sort matures about two weeks before 

 the Early Rose. It is widely known and deserv- 

 edly 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 

 compact 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 daj's earlier than 

 Southern grown stock, and will out-yield them by 

 far. Experienced gardeners will have no other seed 

 at any price. Per pk. 35 cts., bu. $1.00, 3 bu. 

 $2.75. 



HUnPHREV'S POTATO 

 KNIFE 



With the Concave Potato Knife, seed potatoes can 

 be cut better, and $2.00 to $.3.00 an acre saved in 

 seed and time by its use. The blade is very thin and 

 just the right shape to divide the potatoes into one, 

 two or three eye pieces very rapidly without cracking 

 the tuber or injtiring the vitality of the germs as 

 the punch cuttirs will do. We sell the Knife on its 

 merits, and will refund the money to nny one who 

 is not satisfled. A circular is put up in each box 

 with the Knife. Price, 25 cts. each, six, $1.40, by 

 mail. 



BLISS' TRIUMPH 



THE EARLIEST POTATO IN 

 EXISTENCE 



This is the variety grown in the south and shipped 

 to the northern markets early in the summer. It has 

 been grown in Wisconsin and Minnesota for several 

 years with great success. It is a handsome round 

 variety, of a beautiful red color, maturing a week 

 before the Early Ohio. It is a .vigorous grower and 

 very productive for so early a variety. The Triumph 

 has come to stay for first early market or family 

 use, and will undoubtedly bring more money than 

 any other potato for that purpose, but it is not so 

 desirable for main crop. Price per pk. 35 cts., bu. 

 $1.10, 3 bu. $3.00. 



VIQOROSA 



This is a new Potato that is pleasing everyone. 

 It is not so early as the Ohio, but equal in quality 

 and far ahead in 3deld, and is claimed to be the best 

 yielder among all the earlies. It was named Vigor- 

 osa, because of its very strong, \igorous growth. 

 While other early varieties may blight, Vigorosa 

 keeps right on with its magnificent growth of large 

 spreading tops, and when it comes to harvesting 

 time, the way the handsome tubers roll is enough to 

 gladden every farmer's heart. It is alwaj's of the 

 finest quality, with handsome flesh-colored skin and 

 always sells. Price per pk. 35 cts., bu. $1.10. 



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, as 

 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 

 fiesh 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. 3d. Practically 

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

 quaiiti;-s 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 iind great beauty. Per pk. 40 cts., bu. $1.25, 

 3 bu. $3.5U. \ 



