CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE NOVELTIES. 
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POTATO (BRECK’S CHANCE). 
In 1888, a customer of ours in Connecticut sent us as a curiosity a rough-skinned, roundish-oval-shaped, 
white-meated Potato that grew on a Pearl of Savoy vine. It did not in any way resemble the other tubers in 
the hill, or as a matter of fact in the field, therefore was remarkable. We were interested in the “sport” and 
turned it over to Mr. Robbins, a seed-grower of Wethersfield, Conn., to grow for us. He harvestedfrom the orig¬ 
inal sixteen beautiful medium-sized potatoes which he kept and planted again the following year. In the second 
crop the type was maintained, and in 1891 we sent the entire stock to a Potato Specialist in Aroostook County, 
Me., where they have since been grown for us. 
During the six years that we have been getting up a stock for market, the value of the Chance for quantity, 
quality and earliness has, season after season, been more impressed upon us. We have grown it along side of 
the leading early varieties and find it comes in neck and neck with such sorts as Pearl of Savoy, Houlton Rose, 
etc., while for quality, it far exceeds these or any other sorts known to us ; it is as white-meated as the once popu¬ 
lar Snowflake but so dry and mealy that there is trouble in “ cooking them in their jackets.” It is an excellent 
keeper and though kept in a celler all winter the tubers will be found hard and of fine flavor even up to the 
month of May. The vine is of robust growth, and thus far has not been affected by disease. 
If you wish to grow the very best potato in America, you will plant some of 
Breck’s Chance. Quality is its leading feature, and if you are a potato grower you must know that quality, 
and in fact, every other desirable characteristic has in most potatoes of recent introduction given place to carliness . 
Our stock being still somewhat limited, we shall not sell more than one 
bushel to a customer, but recommend that all plant, at least, a few. 
Per pound, 25 cts.; % peck, $1.25; peck, $2.00; bushel, $7.00. 
NOTT’S EXCELSIOR PEA. 
This new, dwarf, extra early wrinkled Pea is superior in earliness, size, quality and productiveness to both 
American Wonder and Piemium Gem. It grows about half as tall again as American Wonder, and its pods are 
larger in proportion. Being within a day or two as early as the first early smooth pea, it is sure not only to be 
grown but to supersede other early kinds. Per pkt., 10 cts. ; quart, 50 cts.; peck, $3.50. 
PARAGON PEA. 
For many years market and private growers have been seeking for a main crop pea that produces an 
abundance of even-sized, good-colored pods well filled with first-quality peas. All these qualities, we believe, 
they will find combined in the Paragon. To be sure, the seed is light-colored, and the vines grow all of three 
feet high, but the quality more than offsets the color, and quantity cannot be had without a vigorous, healthy 
vine. The originator describes this new variety as follows : “ Height, three feet; double-podded ; medium late; 
long, straight pods; six to nine peas. Stubbed, stocky vine with luxuriant foliage; pods, light green; quality, 
superb, not excelled by any pea, and the largest producer known.” This claim seemed to be fully borne out 
by tests made in our trial grounds. Per pkt., 10 cts.; quart, 30 cts.; peck, $1.75. 
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