IMP. MAMMOTH PEARL — One of my customers in Iowa, for the past 

 6 or 7 years, has bred up the Mammoth Pearl potatoes until he has secured a 

 potato that for its general good qualities is hard to surpass. He writes : 



" We obtained the original Mammoth Pearl Potato from the introducer, they 

 were then rather long and very smooth and of large size. The first season they 

 assumed a rather different shape, being oblong rather than long, and some were 

 russeted. We exhibited at the Davenport Fair, which was then as great a fair as 

 our State Fair, and received first premium We then conceived the idea that if 

 the potatoes were properly managed, that instead of " running out." as is the 

 universal habit, they would improve in both quality and yield. With this idea 

 in mind we began by selecting our seed from the very finest, largest and most 

 perfectly formed. We have practiced this at diguing time, and have given 

 great care in their culture throughout. The result has been that a marked 

 improvement has been realized each season ; so that it has been the universal 

 experience that we have been awarded the first premium at every Fair where 

 they have been on exhibition, including County, District and National Fairs, 

 without a single exception. This season they were grown alongside of Early 

 Sunrise, Early Ohio and Lee's Favorite, and yielded about five or six times as 

 much as these varieties. Grown also this season along with the " Rural Blush " 

 Mammoth Prolific (which is a very fine laxse potato) Viek's Gem, Empire State, 

 the Improved Mammoth Pearl outyielded all of them. And while the form and 

 general appearance is the very best, having a yellowish golden russeted outside, 

 they are very white and flowery inside, and a tine table variety. They will take 

 more first and Sweepstake Prizes than other sorts generally known. Of the 

 principles of •' High Breeding." pure success in the live stock department, they 

 are equally applicable to vegetables, and it has been demonstrated in the 

 Improved Mammoth Pearl by nigh breeding, the habit of running out has been 

 avoided, and this fact alone gives great value to this potato." 



Every friend of the Mammoth Pearl— and their names are legion — should not 

 fail to plant this improved strain in '90, Lb. 40 cents ; 3 lbs., 8L00 postpaid. By 

 express or freight, peck, 75 cents ; bus. $2.2-3 ; bbl., S4.50. 



THE NEW Q.XJEEN -This new extra c-arly is a most excellent cropper, 

 and yields fine, large handsome tubers, one-half of which, without culling, would 

 be good enough to exhibit at any Agricultural Fair. In color and shape it very 



known variety, is THE PEOPLE'S POTATO. 

 Sow First Offered.— This new seedling comes 

 to me from one of the largest potato growers in 

 Illinois, a man who has experimented and tried 

 every new variety introduced in the last twenty 

 years. It is a cross between the Minnesota Seedling, 

 and Pearl of Savoy. The Minnesota Seedling is 

 Burbank crossed with the good old Ohio, 

 "ence the parents and ancestors of People's 

 are a grand union of the very best blood in 

 the country. The originator in describing 

 it, writes me as follows: 



"In shape the People's is a beautiful, oval, 

 oblong to round; skin a russet white or tan color, 

 some being splashed with pink eyes shallow, 

 flesh white, of fine pure flavor: cooking perfectly 

 dry and meally through, not falling to waste. 

 The vines are heavy, and strong, and the yield 

 of handsome tubers of great uniformity of size 

 is unusually large. Tubers in size are from large 

 to very large, and growing mostly under the hill 

 vine. It was originated m 18S5. and is the best 

 keeper I know of A number being kept in the 

 past season until June without showing any 

 signs of sprouting. Last yearplanted in June on 

 old unmanured land, a coating of ashes only 

 being used, they produced a good fair crop, 

 when all others planted at that time with only 

 one exception failed almost entirely ; and this 

 splendid showing was made with a dry, hot July 

 and August. In the season of '88 they averaged 

 8 to 10 large to very large tubers to the hill, 

 showing but very few small ones, and the last 

 two seasons in Minnesota and Illinois they have 

 surpassed all the novelties. Their season is 

 medium and I regard them as the most 

 valuable potato in existence. In Minnesota, where nearly everything failed 

 the past season, on account of drought, the People's made a good fair crop, and id 

 Illinois where we had a hot, dry July and August, they produced a beautiful crop, 

 nearly all being of marketable size, as high as 17 marketable tubers being taken 

 from one hill." 



I send the People's ont this jrear with the full conviction that 

 it will take the same position among the late varieties as the 

 Polaris has already secured, among the early sorts, namely, 

 the very head of the list. With Polaris for early and the 

 People's for late, you will have the two most profitable varieties 

 in America to-day. Lb., 75 cents; 3 lbs., jl.50 postpaid. By express or 

 freight, peck $2.00, bus. $6.00, bbl. 512.00, 2 bbls. $20.00. 



OCT. 1ST IS90 WILL BE PAID FOR THE SIX 

 HEAVIEST PEOPLE'S POTATOES RAISED BY 

 ONE OF MY CUSTOMERS THE COMING SEASON 

 AND SENT IN TO ME ON OR BEFORE THAT DATE. 



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much resembles its parent, the Beauty of Hebron, it being a seedling raised from 

 a seed ball of this .variety. In quality it is most excellent ; flesh being pure 

 white and of that sparkling mealy texture that we all like so well 

 in a potato when brought on the table. Under high cultivation, there 

 are almost no small ones. One planter says : " They yielded in excess of anything 

 I ever saw." Another writes : " The potato is a beauty as it comes out of the'earth, 

 there are so many large ones, and almost no small ones." In the words of the in- 

 troducer, "To put the whole matter in a single sentence, the New 

 Queen is a very early potato, a good cropper of large tubers that 

 are remarkably and exceptionally handsome, and of a quality 

 that is unsurpassed. Pound, 40 cents ; 3 pounds, $1.00, by mail postpaid. 

 By express or freight, peck, $1.00; bushel, $2.50 ; barre], $5.00. 



SUPERIOR — (Coy's Seedling, Xo. 88,) First introduced in 18S9, origin- 

 ated from a seed ball found in a fieldof White Star. In shape it somewhat re- 

 sembles its parent, but is more compact in form. Pound 40 cents; 3 pounds, 

 SL by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, peck, SI ; bushel S2.25 ; barrel, $4.50. 



