Camiell & Sons’ Complete Seed Gnide. 
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OUR POTATO FIELDS, JUNE, JULY, & AUGUST. 
A SELECT LIST OF KITCHEN & EXHIBITION SEED POTATOES, 
(Solatium Tuberosum.) Solanac.®. 
Those marked with a * are good Exhibition varieties. 
We grow, at our farm at Eynsford, many acres all for seed on calcareous 
soil, and a.s change of seed off different soil is so essential for heavy and 
heallhy crops, our seed potatoes will be found to give undoubted satisfaction 
both for exhibiting and table purjioses. Great attention and care is bestowed 
upon each variety to keep them perfectly true. All samples are hand 
picked by e.''perienced men who are well acciuainted with the respective 
sorts. 
Our collection consists of about 100 varieties. In the list enumerated 
below are some 40 to 50 varieties, which we consider the best for table, 
show, and first prize winners. We are offering our seed potatoes very cheap, 
in order that change of seed can be within the reach of all ; for after our 
practical experience and observations, we publicly and confidently assert 
it is money well spent. 
CULTURE . — Consider the condition of the soil — if rich, pulverize 
it by digging two, three, or four times; if poor, manure it with our Real 
Manure, which always doubles the croj). Plant early, before the strong eyes 
at the ijrincipal end start growing. Do everything possible so that the 
foliage is in no way injured. Always feel a pride in seeing the tops die 
down a golden yellow. Take up early. Never clamp up tight until frosts 
set in — this prevents premature growth. Peel with a proper peeling knife. 
Do this every evening, nnd let them lay in water all night, and yon certainly 
cannot fail to have mealy, beautiful eating Potatoes. 
A SIMPLE AND CHEAP PREVENTIVE 
OF DISEASE. 
We have tried this method, and found it answer satisfactory, on the 
Beauty of llehron — and that is double earthing. Earth up the potatoes as 
usual, and about a mouth after earth them up again. Always plant vour 
sets deep. Be sure to make the top of the baulk as pointed ns possible, 
resembling a \J upside down. Any hollowness on the top of the baulk is 
setting a trap to catch the germs of the disease wliich are washed down by 
the rain on the tubers, hence commences the disease. Pat both sides of 
baulk well with a spade or shovel, we found it prevented the disease and 
the crop heavier. 
EARLY WHITE, ROUND AND PEBBLE- 
SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Per peck of 14 lbs.. Bushel of oG lbs. p^. p^^ 
*CanneIIs’ “Come to Stay.” — Many laughed and 56 lbs. 14 lbs. 
ridiculed this engraving when itwas first seen in England. s. d. s. d. 
It has not exceeded the quantity of tubers shown, but it is 
a staying favourite when well grown and the greatest 
cropper in existence. Even if the croj) is half diseased, it 
is then equal to the Beauty of Hebron, which it resembles 
in eating nnd other qnalities. In a dry, hot season it 
would be by far the most preferable Potato in cultivation ; 
ready to dig very early GO 2 0 
EAPLT rUEITAN. 
Early Regent — A splendid early 
sort ; good cropper ; useful for 
general purposes 12 0 3 6 
* Harbinger — A new early, large 
handsome fiattish-round tubers; 
foliage dwarf, glossy, and liroml ; 
fine flavour — 4 0 
‘Snowball — A first early variety, 
very dwarf top, tabors very hand- 
some, and of first-rate quality ... 8 6 2 
EARLY WHITE KIDNEY AND 
OBLONG-SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Belle de Fontenay.— An imjirove- 
ment on Myalf’s Ashlenf; cooks 
white ... ... ... ... — 
Early Laxton — Habit dwarf, very 
short top, large even-sized tubers; 
a useful early sort, both for the 
garden, frame, or market work — 
Myatt’s Ashleaf — A well-known 
sort, very prolific, and of good 
flavour ; one of the earliest ... 6 0 
Ringleader— Flavour ami quality 
good — 
Rivers’ Royal Ashleaf— A first- 
class early kidney variety ... 10 6 
4 0 
4 0 
2 0 
5 6 
3 0 
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