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SEED POTATOES. 
THE ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING A RELIABLE CHANGE OF SEED 
POTATOES. 
It is generally admitted that one of the 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. 
We grow potatoes on the chalk in Kent, on the sand in Bedfordshire, on the 
rich fen-lands in Lincolnshire, and the healthy loams in the Lothians, so that we 
possess the advantages of a distinct change to send every customer. 
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 do not list several of the rank-growing new varieties that are only fit for 
field culture. 
For particulars of the celebrated NORTHERN STAR, see coloured inset facing page 1. 
For hints on cultivation, varieties and prices, see following pages. 
237, 238, & 97, High Holbomm, London.— 1904. 
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