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DIBBLE'S Standard White Varieties for Main Crop 
The first Jive varieties following are of the well-known Carman or smooth Rural family, the 
best-known type of market Potato now in cultivation 
Rural New Yorker No. 2 
The first of the late Mr. Carman’s introductions that 
proved to be of great value. The Rural New Yorker 
No. 2 is a late variety, growing vines dark green in 
color, upright in habit of growth, with purple blossoms. 
The tubers are round to oblong, unusually large in 
size, white in color, eyes near the surface, and sets, as 
a rule, only two to four tubers per plant or hill, but 
usually all large ones. 
Carman No. 3 
Also originated by Mr. Carman and introduced by 
him several years later, as an improvement over the 
No. 2, which it resembles in every respect, except that 
it sets more heavily in the hill, averaging, with us, three 
to five tubers per hill and mostly merchantable. 
Number 9 
Very similar to Carman in every way, but a variety 
of later introduction. Very strong, rank grower. 
Heavyweight 
The latest of the smooth Rural type. 
Stand Dry Weather 
My Dibble’s Russets 
and Carmans are look¬ 
ing fine in spite of the 
awfully dry weather.— 
Everel Bean, En¬ 
deavor, Pa. 
We had a phenomenal 
yield of 300 bushels to 
the acre. They were 
much better than any 
other fields on the same 
or adjoining farms and 
did not blight at any 
time during the period 
of growth.—D. H. Mc- 
Elroy, Monroe, N. Y. 
The Green Mountains 
from you yielded about 
300 bushels per acre. 
Good for this year.— 
M. L. Watson, Ely, Vt. 
N’T ; s — v '"" 
Sir Walter Raleigh 
The last of the Carman creations and introduced by 
Peter Henderson & Co. some thirty years ago. The 
Sir Walter Raleigh is similar to the other two but has, 
in our opinion, the most desirable quality of setting 
more tubers per hill and smaller in size, no large or 
overgrown tubers at all, but of desirable size and shape 
to command the top price in the best markets. 
Dibble’s Improved Green Mountain 
In the Improved Green Mountain we have a better 
Potato than was the old Green Mountain at its best, a 
score of years ago. The tubers are uniform in shape, 
oblong, with two good ends, slightly flattened, creamy 
white skin absolutely free from disease in any form, 
and with pure white flesh of excellent quality. They 
are particularly well adapted to northern latitudes 
where the rainfall is abundant and the temperature is 
not excessively high. As a rule, they do not succeed as 
well in localities where they are subjected to unfavor¬ 
able conditions of growth 
during the time they are 
forming tubers, as do the 
members of the Rural 
group. 
I bought 5 bushels of 
your Certified Carman 
Seed Potatoes last spring. 
These were planted and 
raised under ordinary 
field conditions, and in 
spite of a very dry sum¬ 
mer we dug 98 bushels 
from them. These Po¬ 
tatoes are practically all 
marketable size. The 
yield was at the rate of a 
little over 460 bushels 
per acre.— Leslie W. 
Haskins, Chagrin Falls, 
Ohio, October 29, 1934. 
Dibble’s Improved Green Mountain 
DIBBLE’S FARM SEED CATALOG . 1936 
