SEED POTATOES. 
THE ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING A RELIABLE CHANGE. 
It is generally admitted that one of tlie most fruitful elements of the potato 
disease is supplied by a repeated growth year after year of the same stock of potatoes 
on the same land. 
Another danger frequently recurring is the gradual undermining of the 
constitution of the potato by injudicious selection, alternately resulting in a weakly 
impoverished stock that too readily succumbs to the earliest attacks of the potato 
murrain. 
Too much importance cannot be attached to this subject, and a change of seed 
is positively essential if a thoroughly reliable and superior crop is expected. 
Our stocks have been grown and selected with the utmost vigilance, and under 
normal conditions of soil and situation will produce first-class crops. 
Our crops are especially grown for seed purposes, that is to say, they are not 
over-fed for the sake of producing enormous tubers. They are kept true to name and 
description, and are not lifted until thoroughly ripe. We go to this trouble and 
expense with a view to make our potatoes as disease-resisting as the season will permit. 
We grow potatoes in England and Scotland, so that we possess the 
advantages of supplying a distinct change of seed to every customer. 
The Potato boom has come and gone, and what is the outcome of it ? Hundreds 
of .so-called new varieties which .spring up like mushrooms have died away with equal 
suddenness. The few that have survived are mostly those that were originated by 
Mr. Findlay, and the standard types that we catalogue year after year. Now and then a 
good thing turns up, and our customers may be sure of due prominence being given to 
it as soon as we have proved its merits. We grow trial plots each year of every variety 
we can find, and our list is based upon the experience gained therefrom. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE. 
It is necessary that Seed Potatoes procured during winter and not required for planting for several months 
should be taken out of the i>ag or package in which they are received and laid out in an airy shed protected 
from frost, or the eyes will begin to sprout and a weakly growth follows. It is the custom with professional 
gardeners who require early crops in frames or on sheltered borders to lay out the tubers in bo.'tcs to induce 
sturdy sprouts, and each Potato is carefully planted with the strongest of these growths on it. 
During March and April our season’s supplies become much reduced, and we are often quite sold out of 
particular varieties. It is always our endeavour to send something likely to give satisfaction in place of any we 
may not have available. 
For varieties and prices, see folbiving pages, 
*38, & 97, High HoLaoKN» London. — 1907. 
