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QUINNIPIAC — Type of Potato No. 4. 
LEADING VARIETIES. 
Howe’s Premium. — Illustrated on page 3. A new, very early sort of unusual promise. This 
is the most distinct variety ever offered. It is so unlike other potatoes in appearance that a 
bushel of them mixed at random in a large pile of one hundred different varieties, could be 
easily picked out again with a certainty. It is almost perfectly round, pinkish skin, white flesh, 
is exceedingly early, grows compact in the hill, yields well, resists rot, is good quality, and 
keeps sound and solid for a year. For a very early market potato this cannot be surpassed. It 
lias done splendidly in most localities. Try it for the first digging. We quote the Seedsman 
Gregory again this year, because of his reliability. He says of this variety,— “ We raised last 
season 430 bushels to a measured acre, with but very few small and hardly a rotten one on the 
entire piece. Among the score of varieties we raised last season, this one rotted the least of all, 
most of the field being entirely free from it. After testing hundreds of new varieties, we find 
this and the Six Weeks decidedly the most profitable varieties to raise for the early market. 
Prices on page 11. 
Monroe Co. Prize.— Illustrated on page 5. This variety has shown itself so worthy under 
my own eyes for four years and is so universally praised on every hand that I place it at the 
head for a general crop variety. I call it the heaviest yielder of any variety I have been able 
to bring into a fair comparison with it. It seems to grow anywhere, as to character of soil, is 
very vigorous and rank, and makes an immense growth of tops, and a corresponding growth of 
tubers if the land contains the fertility to carry out the crop. The quality is excellent, hardly 
equaled by that of any other variety if dug as soon as ripe. They are of large size. Skin white 
and inclined to be netted, flesh very white. Their quick, vigorous growth, enables them to get 
a deep hold on the soil that carries them right along in a dry time where many other shallow 
rooted varieties wither up and fail entirely. I obtained my original stock direct from the in- 
troducers and have it pure. Only early orders will be sure of a supply. 
Chas. Downing.— This variety, illustrated on page 7, is about as handsome in form as most 
people care to see. The eyes are very few in number and are perfectly level with the surface. 
The quality is equal that of the old Snowflake, which means that it is perfection itself. It is 
quite early but rather doubtful as a yielder. In some places it seems to yield very heavily and 
in others quite the reverse. It sets a large number of tubers. 
Quinnipiac.— Illustrated on this page.— A new late variety, of which I have but a small stock 
and so will not say much about it. I took hold of it because I believe it is the best of its class. 
Quite ideal in form, very smooth, excellent in quality. Resembles the White Star, but better. 
Early Puritan. — Illustrated on page 11. This is a splendid very early white potato. A 
seedling of Beauty of Hebron. It is doing well with me and I hear only favorable reports from 
all quarters. It will pay you well to try this sort if searching for the best; it may just fill your 
bill. Vines small, so can be planted close together. 
Rural New Yorker No. 3. — This variety is well illustrated on the first page of cover. 
Color white, ideal in shape, very smooth surface, quality good. To my surprise it was relished 
by the beetles last season the least of any variety in my field. This is medium in season, has a 
very sparse top. Stalks and blossoms purplish. It is a very distinct variety and one over 
which there has been much ado made. It is reported a yield of over 1000 bushels per acre on 
the experimental grounds of the originator. Adapted to close planting on account of its vines. 
It certainly should be tried by every potato grower in the country. 
