RUTA BAGA OR SWEDISH TURNIP — Continued 
Carter’s Improved American Purple Top. — This variety is, without a doubt, the most popular Swede, 
grown by Market Gardeners and in kitchen gardens, in the United States. It also possesses the 
advantages of a high feeding value, and its qualities of keeping are of the best. The flesh is very 
firm and a rich yellow in colour, with a most delicious flavour when used on the table. In size it is 
second to none. 
Price, .10 per plct.; .15 per oz.; .25 per lb.; .75 per lb. 
Sweet German. — A pure-white fleshed variety, very solid in structure, sweet, mild, and well flavoured. 
It is a good keeper. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .25 per J4 lb.; .75 per lb. 
White French or Rock. — This Swede is a grand keeper, and of the white varieties is unsurpassed for 
table or stock. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .25 per ^ lb.; .75 per lb. 
Carter’s Crimson-Top Table Swede. — A choice stock of Swede Turnip, with delicate orange flesh, and 
specially adapted for growing as a winter table vegetable. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz.; .25 per J4 lb.; .75 per lb. 
Skirving’s Purple Top. — A well-known, very large yellow turnip, with good keeping qualities. The 
flesh is firm and sweet. 
Price, .10 per pkt.; .15 per oz. ; .25 per 34 lb.; .75 per lb. 
POTATOES 
1 he price of Potatoes is subject to market change and fluctuates quickly without warning as the 
result of weather conditions or crop results. We therefore, taking past experiences as an issue, will 
catalogue no price which often misleads purchasers, but we will be pleased to submit prices on any of the 
following varieties of potatoes, all of which are Maine grown, true to name, and as free from disease as 
science will allow. 
Beauty of Hebron. 
Irish Cobbler. 
New Queen. 
Early Norther. 
Green Mountain. 
Delaware. 
Early Rose. 
Norcross. 
Carman No. 3. 
C ustomers will bear in mind when requesting prices or ordering, to name the quantity desired, as 
we arc prepared to forward our Potatoes in only three different measurements, which will greatly aid 
us in making our shipments: they are sacks weighing 165 pounds, bushels weighing 60 pounds, and pecks 
weighing 15 pounds. Eight to ten bushels or four sacks will plant an acre. 
We will also remind our customers of the fact that as potatoes are of such a perishable nature we 
can assume no risk, and ship strictly on the purchaser’s responsibility, but we will, of course, exercise 
the greatest care in regards to the packing and shipping, so that the tubers may be protected from sudden 
changes in the temperature. 
Cultivation of Potatoes. — Under the right climatic conditions any good fibrous soil will produce potatoes, but a better 
quality will result from a production in a good sandy loam. Make furrows of good depth, about 3 feet apart, then apply 
a good dressing of commercial fertilizer or well-decayed stable manure to each drill; cover this slightly and plant good-sized 
pieces of the potatoes, each containing two or three eyes, 15 inches apart in the furrows for early potatoes, and 18 inches 
for the later varieties. Then cover the seed with a plough or other suitable tool to the depth of 2 inches. Begin to cultivate 
when the plants are up, and at each hoeing thereafter bring additional soil about the plants. 
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