SEED POTATOES. 
Grown Expressly for Seed. 
PoMME DE Terre. Patdtas. i^artoffeln. 
Culture. — In order to have the best success in growing Potatoes, it is necessary to plant as early as the 
ground can be made ready. Select a rich soil, and plant in rows 3 feet apart, and the sets 1 foot in the rows. If 
wood ashes and plaster 
can be procured, sow a 
good dressing over the 
field after the Potatoes 
are up. If a very earhj 
crop is desired, it will 
be necessary to sprout 
the Potatoes before 
planting. Cut the Pota- 
toes into pieces of any 
size desirable, and place 
in a wann, light room 
for four to six weeks be- 
fore required for plant- 
ing in the open ground. 
During this time shoots 
will start out strong and 
vigorous, so that, as soon 
as planted, they will 
send out roots and grow 
much more rapidly than those treated in the ordinary way. Another method is to place the sets in a hotbed two 
weeks before they are wanted, and then lift carefully and set out on fresh horso-dung, so that the heat will cause 
them to start at once. If the Colorado potato-beetle makcs~its appearance, the vines mixst be dusted with Paris 
green mixed with about 80 j)arts of plaster ; or, what is better, mix the Paris green in water, one small table- 
spoonful to a pail, and apply with a small brush or broom. Take care to stir the mixture often, or else the Paris 
green will settle to the bottom. Two or three applications during the season will usually suffice to clean off all 
tlie beetles. Three to 4 barrels to the acre. 
HEg"" These, are tlie prices ruJiuf/ in Jaunary ; later on tlwy iiiai/ he higlter. 
v.m 
1350 
1351 
1352 
i:!5'l 
1363 
EARLY VARIETIES. ^ , ™ 
Per >2pk. Pk. 
The Thorburn. We recommend it as positively the best f(n- first crop. It is the 
earliest of all, and the best in gitalilij ; is also very productive and of good size 
and form $0 50 $0 85 
Thorburn's Beauty of Hebron. Sliglitly flesh-colored skin, with pure white flesh. 
Very productive and of the iinest quality ; a flrst-class early variety 40 70 
Early Norther. Extra-early, very prolific ; sh;ipc of the Early Rose ; fine table 
quality 
Early Puritan. Very early; white skin and flesh, finest quality 
Bovee. Extra-early, very ])roduetive, of hue quality; flesh white and very dry 
True Early Rose. The popular market sort; very early, fine quality; very pro- 
ductive 
40 
40 
50 
40 
70 
70 
85 
Bus. Bbl. 
$2 50 $i 50 
2 00 3 50 
2 00 3 75 
2 25 4 25 
2 50 5 50 
70 2 00 3 50 
INTERMEDIATE AND LATE VARIETIES. 
13C7 Thorburn New White Peach-blow. The flesh and skin are pure white and very 
di-y. One of the best toi- keopiny I'or winter use 50 85 2 50 4 50 
1308 Carman No. I. This most valuable Potato was introduced by us in 1894, and it is 
now a recognized high-class standard sort the world over. It is in every respect 
the fiue.st second-early Potato ever offered ; enormous yielder, handsome and uni- 
formly large; peculiarly white skin and flesh ; perfect in quality and via-y dry 40 70 2 00 3 50 
1309 Carman No. 3. One of the best late Potatoes ; the greatest yielder ever introduced ; 
very large tiiljcrs; of liaudsomc form and few and shallow eyes 40 70 2 00 3 50 
l:ii0 Sir Walter Raleigh. Aline new variety for main cr(q); very produci i ve and uni- 
form, all the l.ul)ers being of marketable size. Flesh white and of best quality. . . 50 85 2 50 4 50 
1372 Late Puritan. Besembles the Early Ihiritari in appearance and quality, but is more 
productive , 40 70 2 25 4 25 
1384 State of Maine. Very productive; white skin and ilesh; free from rot and of su- 
perior qualify; a fine late variety 40 70 2 00 4 00 
394 Delaware. Largo, and of fine ciuality; in color white; an immense yielder 40 70 2 00 4 00 
