ROSE or ERIN POTATO. 
Photograph 
of the 
26 
Rose of Erin 
Potatoes 
which 
weighed 
60 LBS. 
DESCRIPTION. 
This new variety is of the Rose 
type, but nearer round and better 
shaped ; skin, pink ; flesh white ; 
shape, oblong, but chunky ; eyes 
few and but little depressed ; eat- 
ing quality, first-class ; matures, 
medium to late ; an enormous 
yielder, keeps late into the spring 
without sprouting. 
Although the potatoes of this 
variety grow to an unusual large 
size in a favorable season, yet we 
have never known them to be 
hollow and they are unexcelled for 
table use. The vines of the Rose 
of Erin are especially rank in 
their growth, so much so in fact, 
that in the time we have been 
growing them they have been the 
only variety on which it has not 
been necessary to fight bugs. 
12 POTATOES 
WEIGHED 33 Lbs. 
“East Spokane, Wash. 
“Yes, I had 26 ROSE OF ERIN POTATOES that weighed 60 pounds, grown 
by ordinary field culture. They were smooth, straight potatoes without a blem- 
ish. I had one Rose of Erin potato that weighed 4 1-2 pounds. 
EDWD. S. ROSS.” 
Men have written us that they do not believe the above statements 
are Irue. We will forfeit $100.00 in gold if we cannot prove they are. 
JUST ONE INSTANCE of how some bright farmers 
are making money when prices of Farm Produce are very low. 
“Woodbury Co., Iowa, Oct. 10, 1895. I have just finished digging my ROSE OF 
ERIN potatoes and have 17s bushels grown from 166 lbs. of set <1 and they are beauties. 
1 took eight of them to the Sioux City Fair. I got there too late to enter for a prize but left 
them on exhibition and they were much larger and nicer than anything else in the potato 
line there. James Pack, proprietor of the Hotel Davenport says they were the biggest 
and nicest potatoes he ever saw grown in the State of Iowa. I have no trouble selling 
them for $1.00 per bushel while other potatoes are selling for 12 to 15 cents. 
F. E. Carrington.’’ 
NOW SUPPOSE that Mr. C. paid $ 1.00 for 10 lbs. of ROSE OF ERIN potatoes 
two years ago. The first year he gets 166 lbs., the second year ( although potatoes are I 
worth only 15 cents per bushel) he gets #175 worth Now, if instead of investing that 
one dollar in ROSE OF ERIN potatoes he had kept it, planted some common variety 
and grown 175 bus. he would have had at 15 cents per bushel $ 26.25 worth instead of 
$175 worth which he now has showing a net profit of $147.75 ' n two years from an invest- 
ment of $i.oo The chances are any common variety would not have produced more than 
one-half of 175 bushels on the same ground so the profits in favor of ROSE OF ERIN 
would be more than $147.75 
There are just as good chances for making money in 
your community. Will you improve them ? 
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