[LOW’S CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES. 
NEW QUEEN. 
This is a seedling raised from a seed ball from the Beauty of Hebron, in Washington Co., 
Me. We have raised it on somewhat a large scale on my farms, and am very much pleased 
with it. We find it very early, a capital cropper, yielding fine, large tubers, so handsome, that 
half of them without culling would be a good exhibit at any agricultural fair. Under high 
cultivation there are almost no small ones. In quality it is most excellent, the flesh being a 
pure white, and of that sparkling mealy texture that we all like so well in a potato when 
brought on the table. In shape and color it very closely resembles its parent, the Beauty of 
Hebron. Price per lb. by mail, postpaid, 40 ets. ; pk., 75 cts. ; bu., #2.50 ; per hid., $5.00. 
CROWN JEWEL. 
A self-seedling of the Early Ohio. It is a strikingly beautiful potato ; skin is white and 
smooth ; eyes shallow but strong ; flesh pure white and flowery, cooking evenly throughout. 
The vines grow vigorously, the roots extend very deeply into the soil resisting drought ; and 
its keeping qualities are equal to the best. The Potato is an immense yielder and is fully a 
week earlier than the Early Ohio or Early Rose. Pk., 60 cts. : bn., $2.00; bbl.. $4.50. 
EARLY ALBINO. 
A new claimant for public favor of great promise. Form half long, nearly cylindrical, 
shallow eyes, white skin and excellent quality. At the test made in 1886, at the Ohio Agri- 
cultural Experimental Station, the report was : — “One of the best early white sorts that has 
been tested at this station. Average yield of the 132 varieties, 87 bushels ; of the Albion 140 
bushels. In quality it took the highest rank, one grade above Beauty of Hebron.” The 
New York Experimental Agricultural Station reports : — “Among early potatoes the Albino 
proved very early, of superior quality, and quite productive.” Price per lb. by mail, post- 
paid, 40 ets. Peck GO cts. ; bu., $2.00 ; bbl., #4.50 by express or freight. 
Our Specialty, the Earliest Potato: Early Essex. 
This new Extra Early Po 
tato was sent out six years ago ; 
during the meantime it has 
competed successfully against 
nearly all other varieties. It 
has proved fully equal to the 
“Early Sunrise" in earliness, 
and compares favorably with 
that sort in quality and general 
appearance, but far excels it 
in the strength and vigor of 
the vine and in its superior 
qualities. 
For four years; we have grown 
and supplied our customers 
with this variety, where the 
demand has been for a good extra early potato, and it has given most gratifying results. We 
have thoroughly tested it in different soils, situations, etc., apd under various modes of cul- 
tivation, and fiiid it perfectly adapted to this climate and latitude. We claim for it superiority 
in productiveness, earliuess and vigor of growth, which, coupled with its many other ex- 
celling traits, renders it far the most desirable for early market or private use. Notwith- 
standing the scores of new potatoes which are every season advertised as “The Best,” many 
of which are really excellent, we do not hesitate to place the “Early Essex” ahead of any 
other of the forty or more varieties we have tested, and feel confident thatjit will far exceed 
them all in general excellence. From one peck planted in our “Trial Ground” we raised 
eighteen bushels of “Seed Potatoes,” common field culture. Price per lb.' by mail. 
