Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
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OUR POTATO FIELDS, JUNE, JULY, & AUGUST. 1 
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SELECT LIST OF KITCHEN & EXHIBITION SEED POTATOES. 
(Soktnum Tuhirosum.) Solvnac-®. 
Those marked with a * are good Exhibition varieties. 
It is absolutely necessary that full Rail Address should accompany ail orders for Potatoes. 
We grow, at our farm at Eynsford, many acres all for seed on calcareous 
soil, and as change of seed off different soil is so essential for heavy and 
healthy crogs, our seed potatoes will be found to give undoubted satisfaction 
both for exhibiting and table purposes. Great attention and care is bestowed 
upon each variety to keep them perfectly true All samples are hand-picked 
by experienced men who are well acciuainted with the respective sorts. 
Onr collection consists of about 100 varieties. In the list enumerated 
below are 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 onr 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 Ileal 
Manure, which always doubles the crop. Plant early, before the strong eyes 
at the principal 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, and let them lay in water all night, and you certainly 
» cannot fail to have mealy, beautiful eating Potatoes. 
See Illustration below, lie sure, in planting, this end is upwards, and 
these eyes should be reduced to the crown or, at most, two Only. By this 
means the crop would be considerably increased. 
lARLV Pl'RIT.tJf, 
A SIMPLE AND CHEAP PREVENTIVE 
OF DISEASE. 
We have tried this method, and found it answer satisfactory, oa the 
Beauty of Hebron — and that is treble earthing. Earth up the potatoes as 
usual, and about a month after earth them up again and again. Always plant 
your sets deep. Be sure to make the top of the baulk as pointed as possible, 
resembling a V upside down. Any hollowness on the top of the baulk is 
setting a trap to catch the germs of the disease which 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 1+ lbs.. Bushel of 56 lbs. Per Per 
56 lbs. 14 Iba. 
*Cannells’ “Come to Stay” — Is a staying favourite s. d. s. d. 
when well grown and the greatest cropper in existence. 
Even if the crop is half diseased, it is then equal to the 
Beauty of Hebron, which it resembles in eating and 
other qualities. In a dry, hot season it would be by 
far the most preferable Potato in cultivation ; ready to dig 
very early 6 0 2 0 
Early Regent— A splendid early sort; good cropper; 
useful for general purposes 10 0 3 0 
‘Harbinger — A new early; large handsome flattish-round 
tubers; foliage dwarf, glossy, and broad ; fine flavour ... — 3 6 
‘Snowball — A first early variety, very dwarf top, tubers 
very handsome, and of first-rate quality 8 (» 2 6 
EARLY WHITE KIDNEY AND OBLONG- 
SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Belle de Fontenay — An improvement on J/yatt’sAsA/eq/’,- 
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 12 0 
Myatt’S Ashleaf— A well-known sort, very prolific, and 
of good flavour ; one of the earliest 
Ringleader — Flavour and quality good ... / 
Rivers’ Royal Ashleaf — A first-class early kitjney variety 
‘Early Puritan — The earliest pure, white-skinfled Kidney 
Potato in cultivation. Like most of the American kinds, 
when first introduced the Early Puritan is a prodigious 
cropper ; but it is unlike most of the other varieties from 
that country, in that we shall not be obliged to grow it 
several seasons before it loses its waxy nature and 
becomes fit for table use, as its cooking qualities are at 
present almost equal to a good many of our first-class 
table varieties.. 
6 0 
8 6 
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