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SEED POTATOES. 
THE ADVANTAGES OF PLANTING A RELIABLE CHANGE. 
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. 
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, on the chalk in Kent, on the 
sand in Bedfordshire, on the rich warp-lands in Lincolnshire, and we are appointed agents for 
Mr. Archibald Findlay’s celebrated new Scotch seedlings raised in the best potato districts of 
Fifesbire (see next page), so that we possess the advantages of supplying a distinct change of 
seed to every customer. 
We do not list several of the rank-growing new varieties which need too much space 
in ordinary gardens, neither do we catalogue others in which we can find no merits. We grow 
trial plots each year of every variety we can find, and our list is based upon the experience 
gained therefrom. 
It is necessary that Seed Potatoes procured during Winter and not required for planting 
for several months should be taken out of the bag 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 boxes 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. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE 
For varieties and prices, see following pages. 
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