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Camiell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
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POTATOES. 
A SELECT LIST OF KITCHEN & EXHIBITION SEED POTATOES. 
(Solarium Tuberosum.) Solanac.®. 
SPECIALLY GROWN AND SELECTED FOR SEED, AND TRUE TO NAME. 
Those marked with a * are good Exhibition varieties. 
It is absolutely necessary that full Rail Address should accompany all orders for Potatoes. 
We grow, at our farm at Eyusford, many acres all for seed on calcareous 
soil, and as change of seed off different soil is so essential for heavy and 
healthy crops, 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 acquainted with the respective sorts. 
Our collection consists of about 100 varieties. In the list enumerated 
below are varieties which we consider the beat 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 
oliservEMtions, 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 crop. Riant 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. Reel 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, page 31. Be 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. 
A SIMPLE AND CHEAP PREVENTIVE 
OF DISEASE. 
We have tried this method, and found it answer satisfactorily on the 
Beauty of Hebron— aai that is treble earthing. Earth up the potatoes as 
usual, and about a month after earth them up again and again . Always p'ant 
your sets deep. Be sure to make the top of the baulk as pointed ns 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. 
NEW POTATOES. 
Britannia— The first in — a fortnight earlier than Myatt’s Ashleaf. The 
new first early Kidney Potato. Excellent flavour, capital cropper, 
with shot* stout haulm. This is the very earliest for forcing, and 
is recommended for growing under glass in beds or in pots and 
frames, producing a crop for use at Christmas and during the early 
months of the year. We have great pleasure in offering this new 
variety of Potato, and would especially draw the attention of 
gardeners to its unique character; it is probably tbe only kind that 
wilt succeed in ordinary -sized flower pots, bearing a crop of new 
Potatoes with but little trouble and expense, and at a time when they 
are esteemed a luxury. 6rf. per lb. ; 6.s. per peck of H lbs. 
Flourball — A red round variety, handsome, and of nice uniform size ; g( od 
table quality, a great cropper, and one of the best disease resisting 
kinds yet introduced ; haulm vigorous, and of a very dark green colour. 
Per 14 lbs., 3s. 
Goldflnder— Main-crop, white oval; a grand Potato for Winter and 
Spring use, hand.some in shape, absolutely no eyes ; flesh fine in 
texture, floury white, and quality superb ; strougly recommended. 
Per 14 lbs., 3s. 
EARLY WHITE, ROUND AND PEBBLE- 
SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Per peck of 14 lbs., Bushel of o6 lbs. Per I’er 
56Ibs. Ulhs. 
*Cannells’ “Come to Stay” — Isa staying favourite s. d. 
when W'ell 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 Hammersmith— Handsome tubers; 
skin 
clear white 
10 
0 
3 
0 
Early Regent-A splendid early sort 
10 
0 
3 
0 
‘Harbinger — Handsome flattish-round tubers 
— 
3 
0 
‘Snowball— A first early variety 
10 
0 
3 
0 
EARLY WHITE KIDNEY AND OBLONG- 
SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Belle de Fontenay— Animprovementond/yoft’sA.^A/en/’.- 
cookswhite ... ••• • ••• ••• - b 
Early Laxton o 3 « 
Eynsford Mammoth (Cannell) — Early white; 
kidney-shaped ... ••• •• ••• 10 fi 3 0 
Myatt’s Ashleaf— A well-known sort, very prolific, and 
of good flavour ; one of the earliest 6 0 2 0 
Ringleader • • ~ ® 
Rivers’ Royal Ashleaf— A first-class early kidney variety 8 6 2 6 
‘Early Puritan— The earliest pure, white-skinned Kidney 
Potato in cultivation. Its cotking qualities are at 
present almost equal to a good miny of our first-class 
table varieties ** 2 0 
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