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A SELECT LIST OF KITCHEN & EXHIBITION SEED POTATOES. 
(Solanum Tuheromm.) Sul.vnaC/E. 
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 Eynsford, 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 wlio are well ac(|uainted with the respective sorts 
In the list enumerated below are varieties which we consider the best 
for table, show, and fii-st prize winners. Wo 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. 
C.ULTURE. — Consider the condition of the soil — if rich, pulverize 
it by digging two, three, or four times; if poor, manure it with our Keal 
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. 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 when cooked. 
See Illustration, page 31. Be sure, in planting, thiseud 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 an.swer satisfactorily on the 
Beauty of Uehron — 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. 
NEW POTATOES. 
The Bovee — As a first early it has all desirable features, and combines in 
a wonderful degree extreme earliness, superior flavour, and heavv 
cropping qualities. The vine is short and stocky, and the tubers, which 
are between kidney and pelible shape, are all bunched together close u[> 
to the vine. The skin is a dark flesh colour, and tlie tubers size up to 
edible or merchantable size more quickly and uniformly than any other 
variety. Since introduced it has called forth thousands ol testimonials. 
Per lb., 6d.'; per peck of 14 lbs., (is. 
Pride of Tonbridge— First Class Certificate K.II.S. A very useful 
early white variety, of perfect nebble shape ; an excellent cropper, 
and of splendid quality when boiled ; it promises to make a flue exhi- 
bition kind. Per peck of 14 lbs., 3,v. 
Up-tO-Date— A white elongated oval shape, wonderfully productive, and 
in point of hardiness and quality leaving little to desire. Per peck of 
14 lbs., 3.S. ; 10s. till, for 5(1 lbs. 
EARLY WHITE, ROUND AND PEBBLE- 
SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Per peck of 14 lbs.. Bushel of 50 lbs. Per Per 
50 lbs. 14 lbs. 
*Cannells’ “Come to Stay” — Isa staying favourite d. s. d. 
when well grown, one of the greatest croppers iu 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 go 2 0 
Early Regent — A splendid early sort b 0 2 6 
EARLY WHITE KIDNEY AND OBLONG- 
SHAPED VARIETIES. 
Britannia — The first in — a fortnight earlier than Hyatt’s Ashleaf. E.xcel- 
lent flavour, capital cropper, with short stout haulm. This is the 
very earliest for forcing, and is recommended for growing under glass 
iu beds or iu pots and frames, producing a crop for use at Christmas and 
during the early months of the year, and draw the attoution of garden rs 
to its unique character; it is probably the only kind that will 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. 4.S'. tid. per peck of 14 lbs. 
Early Laxton lo 6 3 o 
Eynsford Mammoth (Cannell) — Early white ; 
kidney-shaped ... . 10 6 3 0 
Myatt’S Ashleaf — A well-known sort, very prolific, and 
of good flavour ; one of the earliest 6 
Rivers’ Royal Ashleaf — Afirst-classearly kidney variety 
‘Early Puritan — The earliest pure, white-skinned Kidney 
Potato in cultivation. Its c.oking qualities are at 
present almost equal to a good m.aoy of oar tirst-class 
table varieties 
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