A potato from your own garden is worth nine from the market 



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Irish Cobbler Potato 



A World Wide Favorite 



It is a most excellent extra early variety, maturing good size tubers 

 seven weeks from time of planting. It has also the remarkable char- 

 acteristic of producing very few, if any, small potatoes, all the tubers 

 being of marketable size. The vines make short, upright growth, so 

 that the hills may be only a short distance apart. The flesh is pure 

 white, with a clean, smooth, white skin; and in quality they are 

 excellent, always cooking dry and mealy. Splendid keepers, and a 

 first-class sort worth the attention of all potato growers. 



Pound, 35 cents; 3 pounds, 90 cents, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, 

 not prepaid, peck, $1.10; bushel, $4.00; barrel (2| bus.) , $10.00. 



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Potato Seed 



Seed From The Flower Ball. 



We have a choice strain of potato seed which is the product of num- 

 erous selections of the best new and old varieties now in cultivation, 

 for those who wish to experiment in the production of new sorts. 

 Packet, 15 cts.; 2 packets, 25 cts.; 10 packets, $1.00, postpaid. 



Maule's 

 Early Thoroughbred 



The Quickest Basket Filler 



Maule's Early Thoroughbred was 

 rst offered to the public in 1896, at 

 00 a barrel, since which time we 

 have received hundreds of reports of 

 (field crops running up to 300 bushels 

 per acre. On account of its earliness it 

 Is not much affected by the usual mid- 

 summer and autumn droughts, while 

 in keeping qualities it is unsurpassed. 

 The illustration does not in any way 

 exaggerate its smooth and handsome 

 appearance. It produces an unus- 

 ually large proportion of merchant- 

 able tubers. The potatoes grow closely 

 in the hill, and are of large and nearly 

 uniform size. On our trial grounds at 

 Newfield, New Jersey, we made a 

 comparative test of Maule's Early 

 Thoroughbred with a potato in favor in 

 our neighborhood, the result being 45 

 to 15 in favor of the former, or at the rale 

 of 240 bushels an acre for Early Thor- 

 oughbred Potato. In every hill there 

 were great large, beautiful potatoes, 

 such as we have never seen since the 

 first year of the old Early Rose. 



Pound, 35 cts.; 3 pounds, 90 cts., postpaid 



MAULE'S EARLY THOROUGHBRED POTATO. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, Sl.10; fon., 84.00; tobl. (3% tons.), $10.00. 



The Freeman 



27 Years of Triumph 



The Freeman is a strong grower, contain- 

 ing fresh, vigorous blood. It is early in 

 reaching maturity; productive, and univer- 

 sally admitted to be the finest flavored 

 potato on the market. 



The tuber is oval in shape and russet in 

 color. The flesh is very white, both raw 

 and when cooked, fine grained and of best 

 flavor. The greatest merits of this variety 

 are its extreme earliness and long keeping 

 qualities. From the time the tubers are as 

 large as hens' eggs until new potatoes come 

 the next year they burst open when boiled 

 with their jackets on, and appear snow 

 white and floury. 



They grow very thickly and ripen sev- 

 eral weeks in advance of Early Rose. We 

 have frequently dug six to nine pounds 

 from a single hill, and in rich ground there 

 the freeman potato. are few small ones. 



Pound, 40 cents; 3 pounds, $1.00, postpr.M, By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, $1.10; bushel, $4.25; barrel (2| bus.), $11.00. 



