DOSE OF ERIN POTATO. 
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Photograph 
of the 
26 
Rose of Erin 
Potatoes 
which 
weighed 
60 
pounds. 
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 ; eating 
quality, first-class ; matures med- 
ium to late ; an enormous yielder, 
keeps late into the spring without 
sprouting. 
Although the potatoes of this var- 
iety grow to an unusually 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. 
\2 POTATOES 
WEIGHED 33 LBS. 
“Yes, 1 had 26 ROSE OF ERIN POTATOES that weighed 60 pounds, 
grown by ordinary field culture. They were smooth, straight potatoes 
without a blemish. I had one Rose of Erin potato that weighed 4j4 lbs.” 
EDWD. S. ROSS, East Spokane, Wash. 
Men have written us that they do not believe the above statements 
are true. We will forfeit $100.00 in gold if we cannot prove they are. 
JUST ONE INSTANCE of how some bright 
farmers make money when prices of farm produce are very low 
"I have just finished digging my ROSE OF ERIN potatoes and have 175 bushels 
grown from lfifi lbs. of seed and they are beauties. I 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, Woodbury Co., Iowa. 
NOW SUPPOSE that Mr. C. paid $1.00 for 10 lbs. of ROSE OF ERIN potatoes 
two years ago. The first year he gets 1G6 lbs , the second year (although potatoes are 
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 in two years from an 
investment of $1.00. 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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