WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK 
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Potatoes and Pumpkins 
Extra Early Puritan 
Early Ohio. Very early. Good producer. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $ 2 . 25 , 
bbl. $4.25. 
Uncle Sam. Handsome shape; medium size; excellent quality. 
Pk. 85 cts., bus. $2.50, bbL $4.50. 
Green Mountain. A late variety that does well on poor soils and 
resists drought better than most kinds. Tubers, large and of attractive 
appearance, a good keeper. Pk. 80 cts., bus., $2.25, bbl. $4.00. 
White Elephant. Late, large, good quality and very productive. 
Pk. 80 cts.. bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.25. 
POTATOES 
Pom me de Terre. Patatas. Jlartoffeln. 
Ten bushels cut tubers will plant an acre. 
The Potato can be grown with varying success on soils of 
all kinds and in all conditions of fertility, but the soil best 
suited is a sandy loam. Manure is applied either in rows or 
hills, or broadcast over the hills and plowed in, the latter in 
most cases being preferable. ' Plant as early in the spring as 
the ground can had in fair working order, in hills or ridges, 
about 3 feet apart, and the sets one foot apart in the rows, 
covering about four inches deep. 
Elliott’s Early Puritan. Valuable early variety, skin 
and flesh white, superb quality, dry and floury. Pk. 85 cts., 
bus. $2.50, bbl. $4.50. 
Beauty of Hebron. Slightly flesh-colored skin, with 
pure white flesh; productive, and of the finest quality. A 
first-class early variety. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.25. 
Early Norther. Several days earlier than Early Rose 
and equally prolific. Resembles that variety in shape, but 
little longer. Excellent table variety. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25 
bbl. $4.25. 
Queen. This variety closely resembles the Early Beauty 
of Hebron in color, size and shape, but is earlier and a heavier 
yielder. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.25. 
Irish Cobbler. An excellent extra early variety matur¬ 
ing good sized tubers seven weeks from time of planting. 
Flesh pure white, of line flavor, always cooking dry and 
mealy. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.25. 
Bovee.' For an extra-early this is one of the best. An 
exceedingly heavy yielder, good keeper and fine quality. Pk. 
80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.25. 
Early liose. One of the leading standard varieties. Early, pro¬ 
ductive and of excellent quality. Pk. 80 cts., bus. S2.25, bbl. $4.00. 
Carman. No. 1. This most valuable Potato was introduced in 1894. 
and is now a recognized high-class standard sort the world over! 
Enormous yielder, handsome and uniformly large. Peculiarly white 
skin and flesh. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.00. 
Rural New Yorker No. 12. Medium-early; white; oblong, 
inclined to round, rather flattened. Almost every Potato marketable! 
Popular main-crop variety. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.00. 
Clark's No. 1. Resembles Early Rose, but is more productive and 
earlier. Pk. 80 cts., bus. $2.25, bbl. $4.00. 
PUMPKIN 
Potirox. Calabaza. ©roffe HurBtS. 
One ounce will plant 50 hills. 
Mammoth Tours 
The common practice is to drop two or three seeds in every second or third hill in the cornfield, but if cultivated on a large scale the seed may be 
sown in hills eight feet apart each way, four plants to each hill, and otherwise treated in the same manner as melons or cucumbers. 
If to be forwarded by mail, add at the rate of 8 cents per pound for postage. 
Calhoun. Medium size, very heavy and solid ; productive, and of excellent quality. The outside is cream color ; flesh very thick fine-grained 
salmon-yellow. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., % lb. 30 cts., lb. 90 cts. " ’ 
Large Cheese. A very hardy and productive variety; the best for cooking purposes. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., % lb. 25 cts., lb. 75 cts. 
This variety grows to an immense size, often weighing 150 pounds. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., % lb. 25 cts., lb. 75 cts. 
Nantucket Sugar. The great pie Pumpkin of the Eastern States. Pkt. 5 cts., 
oz. 10 cts., % lb. 30 cts., lb. $1.00. 
Early Sugar. This variety is smaller than the Large Field, but of finer grain, 
sweeter and very prolific. Pkt . 5 cts., oz. 10c., % lb. 25c., lb. 75c. 
Winter Luxury. This is recommended as one of the best pie Pumpkins. An 
excellent keeper and enormously productive. It is very finely netted, and in color a 
golden russet. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., % lb. 25 cts., lb. 75 cts. 
Connecticut Field. The common variety usually grown for feeding stock. 
Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., % lb. 15 cts., lb. 40 cts. 
RHUBARB 
Rhubarbe. Ruibarbo. OffyaBatfter. 
One ounce will produce 1,000 plants. 
Sow in April, in drills a foot apart, thinning out to about the same distance apart in 
>ws when a few inches high. The following spring transplant into deep, rich soil, 
about three feet apart each way. If propagated by dividing the roots, it may bo done 
either in the fall or spring, planting it at the same distance apart as given above. The 
Pumpkin, Mammoth Tours 
soil cannot be too rich. 
Linnaeus. Early, large and tender. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., % lb. 50 cts., lb., $1.50. 
Victoria. Very large; later than the Linneeus. Pkt. 5c., oz. 20 cts.. lb. 50 cts. 
lb. $1.50. 
HOOTS of the above varieties, 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz.; by mail, 50 cts. per doz. 
extra for postage. 
