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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. 



HENDERSON'S new potato EARLY RUSSET. 



This NEW SEEDLING is POTATO PERFECTION. The Earliest Grown 



and the Best Early Grown. Big, Reliable Yielder, Handsome, 



Healthy, of Superfine Quality, and a Good Keeper. 



Henderson's early Russet we believe to be not only 'the earliest 

 potato grown but the best early potato grown. It is a -seedling 

 of 1903, bred from two famous early varieties, and grown in 

 Maine, the " potato paradise," which produces the best seed 

 potatoes in America. 



In earliness Henderson's Early Russet leads the field, usually 

 being large enough for cooking in eight weeks from planting, 

 and in 9 to 10 weeks is fully matured. 



It is a very handsome potato of rounding, oval form, very 

 uniform, in shape and size averaging 4 to 5 inches in length — 

 sometimes larger, seldom smaller. The eyes are on the surface 

 and very shallow. The skin of creamy-buff is netted golden 

 russet, nature's hall-mark, as all critics know, of potato quality 

 — which axiom is fully sustained in Henderson's Early Russet, 

 for the flesh is fine-grained, as white as snow, cooks dry and floury, 

 " sheds its jacket " when boiled, and its flavor is particularly mild 

 and delicious. 



The vines, while of neat, compact, upright growth, make large 

 healthy foliage which has so far proved to be blight proof. The tubers grow 

 bunched compactly in the hill, permitting close planting, rows 2 to 2i feet 

 apart and hills 9 to 10 inches apart, with only one eye to a hill. Under this 

 method the potatoes will grow as nearly alike as peas in a pod and yield sur- 

 prisingly large crops. 



Not the least of the merits of Henderson's Early Russet is its wonderful 



keeping quality. Although it matures so early yet it will keep properly 



stored — in prime condition, firm and plump, until June. (See cut.) 



Price, buyer pays expressage or freight, $1.50 peck, $5.00 bushel $10.00 bbl. 

 of 165 lbs. net weight (net cash.) 



This season has been the driest I ever saw. No rain whatever while early 

 potatoes were growing, yet your Early Russet beat all other early kinds, such 

 as Irish Cobbler, Bliss, Beauty of Hebron, Queen, De^'drop, etc., hardly any 

 of these being of silab'e size." W. E. JOHNSON, Leominster, Mass. 



Henderson's Early Kusse*. 



Henderson's Early Bovee Potato. 



HENDERSON'S BOVEE is not only an extra early potato, but it takes 

 a leading place among the heavy cropping varieties, an unusual thing 

 among first earlies. It is even earlier than Early Ohio, while in all com- 

 petitive trials. " Bovee " has outyielded all the early Potatoes, and in many 

 of the tests it has outyielded even the late varieties. The vine is dwarf 

 rind stocky, enabling it to be planted six inches closer than nearly all 

 other varieties, which results in a much larger return per acre, and is a 

 feature of great importance where land is valuable. The tubers grow re- 

 markably close, all bunched together in the hill close up to the vine. 

 They size up to marketable tubers more evenly than any Potato we 

 ever saw; none too large or too small; practically the whole crop being 

 merchantable and the quality is perfect. We have only one warning — 

 it is apt to prove disappointing on poor soil or with poor cultivation, as it 

 sets so freely the tubers are apt to be small. But on good Potato ground, 

 well fertilized and cultivated, no other early Potato surpasses it. (See cut.) 



Price, 65c. pk., $2.25 bush., $4.75 bbl. of 165 lbs., net weight (net cash.) 

 By express or freight at purchaser's expense. 



They yield well, are dry and mealy. 



" Your Bovee is the best early potato we have ever had. 

 md their flavor is excellent." 



J. E. A. GIBBS, Raphine, Va. 



Irish Cobbler Potato. 



A very fine early variety extensively grown for market in some lo- 

 calities. The tubers are very handsome, almost round, averaging very 

 uniform in shape and size. Flesh white and of excellent quality, skin, 

 cream and buff with whitish netting. This is a very reliable variety 

 and heavy cropper. 



Price, 60c. pk., $2.00 bush., $4.25 bbl. of 165 lbs. net weight (net 

 cash.) By express or freight at purchaser's expense. 



Sir Walter Kaleigh Potato. 



A grand main crop potato, forming tubers of uniform large size — oval 

 in form and of the finest quality, the flesh being fine grained, white — 

 cooking dry and mealy. It is very productive and a splendid keeper. 



Price, 60c. pk., $2.00 bush., $4.25 per bbl. of 165 lbs., net weight (net 

 cash.) By express or freight at purchaser's expense. 



FOR OUR COMPLETE LINE OF SEED POTATOES, SEE PAGE 43. 



