IEMAN POTATO 



^95E NEW r^-ANY OTHEI, 



SINCE THE InTroDiTcTION 

 of the EARLY 'ROSE:^ 



All I had for sale sold at 

 $3.00 per pound in 1801. 



All I had for sale sold at 

 $7.50 per bushel, $15.00 

 per barrel in 1892. 



All I had for sale sold at 

 $4.00 per bushel, $7.50 

 per barrel in 1893. 



HISTORY Repeats ITSELF. 



I N 1894 I sold every Freeman I had for 

 sale at '93 prices, and money had to 

 be refunded customers late in sending in 

 their orders. Such a record was never before 

 made for any potato. Not only have I sold out 

 r of every Freeman I had on hand, but thousands 

 dollars had to be returned to disappointed custo- 

 mers. Tens of thousands of dollars have been made 

 my friends, who followed my advice and planted 

 largely of the Freeman variety during the last four years. 

 Freeman has not only equaled but surpassed all claims 

 'made for it, and is unanimously pronounced by 50,000 American 

 potato growers a perfect wonder. No potato was ever before so gratuitously advertised in the Agricultural Press or by the 

 praises of the thousands who have planted it, I really believe more enthusiastic testimonials have been written concerning 

 Freeman in the last four years, than were ever before written of any other variety. There is no gainsaying the fact that the 

 Freeman Potato is unquestionably the strongest grower, and contains more new, fresh blood than any other sort; it has also 

 shown unusual developments both as to early ripening, enormous productiveness, etc., etc. It is admitted by all to be the 

 finest flavored potato on the market, and when once tried it will be used for the table to the exclusion of all other varieties. 

 In some sections of the country it is not quite as early as the Early Ohio, but taking the country over it is the best early 

 ever put in the hands of the American potato grower. In introducing the Freeman Potato to the American public, I did 

 so with the belief that it was destined in the next few years to create as great a furore and to sell at as high prices as the 

 Early Rose in the first few years of its introduction, twenty-five years ago. While my ideas were extremely high, to tell the 

 truth I hardly expected the result that has come to pass. 



Every one I know of who has tested the Freeman Potato is equally 

 as enthusiastic as I am, among these is my friend, Mr. T. Greiner, of 

 La Salle, N. Y. This is what he thinks about it : 



" What 1 know about the Freeman Potato is soon told. In the Au- 

 tumn of 1889 1 received from Mr. Freeman, of Minn., samples of the 

 new seedling for testing. Undoubtedly these tubers were a selection, 

 for I do not remember ever having seen a lot of tubers equaling these in 

 color, size and shape, and in beauty. Skin white, russet; shape oblong, 

 slightly flattened ; eyes almost even with the surface, and very incon- 

 spicuous. These potatoes were placed in an ordinary cellar, and when 

 taken out to be planted on May 17th, were almost as fresh and plump as 

 when first received. The growth was so early, so strikingly bushy and 

 wonderfully strong and altogether in so pleasing and favorable contrast 

 with any of the 50 or (R) other varieties in the lot (among them the most 

 renowned of the newest sorts, and a number of my own seedlings), that 

 I was templed to write to the originator for prico of his whole stock. 

 The. Freeman is none of your weakly dwarfish tilings. We have in it 

 vigor, strength and health such as I have not seen elsewhere in many 

 years. The crop ripened about with Ohio, or Burpee's Extra early, i. e.t 

 little, if any, later than the Early Ohio, which, heretofore I have always 

 considered to be our best first early potato, and the yield was far 

 lurger than that of any other early sort; the tubers of fine shape 

 and large sine. Of course this is the test of but a single seasou ; but 



if this potato does as well elsewhere as it did with me this year 

 it is the coming early potato, and the most valuable recently brought 

 out. I am so sure of this that I feel like throwing all my own seedlings 

 away, and begin with the Freeman, raising seedlings from it Just as 

 soon as I can get seed balls of the variety. As to table quality, I 

 know of no reliable market potato that is better." 



The originator, Mr. Freeman, gives the following history and 

 description of this variety: 



"The Freeman Potato came from true seed of what is here called 

 the 'Silver Tip' Potato, the seedling being grown In 1885. The 

 tuber is oval in shape, russet in color; flesh very white, both raw and 

 when cooked, very fine grain and of very best flavor. The greatest 

 merits of the variety are its extreme earliness, and long-keeping 

 qualities. From the time they are as large as hen's eggs until new 

 potatoes come in the next year, they burst open when boiled with their 

 jackets on, and appear snow-white and floury. Last year (1889) I planted 

 some of my Freemans on June -1th, and on July 13th— thirty-nine days 

 from planting- I dug the first mess of tine potatoes for dinner. They 

 grow very quickly, and ripen here several weeks in advance of Early 

 Rose. My first general planting this year was ready to be put into t he 

 cellar August 1st, being then thoroughly ripe, and vines dead. They are 

 also a first-class yielder; I have frequent ly. dug six to nine pounds from 

 a single hill, and'iu rich ground there are few small ones." 



nR. T. B. TERRY'S three years experience on the opposite page describes what can be accoinplisbed with the Freeman 

 Potato better than any words I can use. I have only this to add : I would advise all my friends to exercise caution 

 from whom they purchase their supply of Freemans. For three years now I have sold Freemans by the barrel, so cannot be 

 said to control the entire supply; still I would advise all intending purchasers, if they do not send their orders to headquar- 

 ters, to be sure they secure Freeman Potatoes that are guaranteed to be raised from seed purchased from Wm. Henry Maule. 



Prices of Freemans for 1895: 



Pound, 50 ccntug 3 pounds, SUM), postpaid. By express or 

 freight, peck, Sl.OOt bushel, 92.50) barrel, 95.50] a barrels, 

 $10.00; 10 barrels, $15.00. 



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