BURBANK’S SEEDLING POTATO 
is now too well known to require extended description or recommenda¬ 
tion; it continues to give the greatest satisfaction wherever grown. 
No potato ever introduced in the United States has received stronger 
testimonials. I append a few samples. 
“The Burbank’s Seedling Potatoes are 
way ahead for yielding of anything I ever 
saw. Planted by the side of others, with 
the same cultivation, it yielded three hun¬ 
dred fold more than any other kind except¬ 
ing the Dunmore and Excelsior. I should 
have made money to have paid $20 per 
bushel last year, and planted all Burbank’s 
Seedling. From the one pound you sent 
me 1 raised, without any manure or any 
fertilizers whatever, 187% lbs., and not an 
uusizable potatoe in the lot. Early Rose 
on same ground only gave (same number 
of hills) about 8 to 10 lbs.. Excelsior 84, 
Peach Blow 43, Peerless 10 lbs. 
“Hammond, Pa.” IT. O. Bailey.” 
“I have tested over a thousand varieties 
of potatoes, but the Burbank excels them 
all, growing the handsomest potatoes I 
ever saw, while their quality is fully equal 
to their looks. Andrew Lackey.” 
“Haverill, Mass.” 
“The Burbank Seedling was planted 
with all my other new sorts, and so far as 
a single trial is concerned has beat them 
all handsomely in yield, appearance and 
quality, the three great essentials in a 
potato. Johnathan Talcott.” 
“Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y.” 
“Now as to the Burbank’s Seedling, the 
season has been unfavorable, and the 
grasshoppers killed them before they were 
matured, but for.all that, they gave good 
satisfaction; they realized at tire rate'of 
420 bushels to the acre, and 98 per cent, 
marketable potatoes. 1 consider them a 
potato of rare excellence as a late variety. 
“Little Sioux, Iowa. J. L. Perkins.” 
“We find it merits all the praise it has 
received. Tillinghast Bros. 
“La Plume, Penn. Seedsmen.” 
The following were clipped from the last number of the Albany, N. Y. 
Cultivator and Country Gentleman : 
“Bukbank’s Seedling Potato. —A. N., 
page 048, inquires for a potato that will 
yield 200 bushels per acre. I have raised 
the Burbank’s Seedling for two years, and 
it surpasses in yield every variety I ever 
tried. This year on a piece of sod ground, 
without manure and rather poor, I har¬ 
vested 2% bushels per square rod. One 
of my neighbors has dug a bushel from 
nine to ten hills, and averaged that through 
the piece. Last year they yielded four to 
one as compared with the early rose. This 
year they are free from rot, while most of 
the other varieties are rotting a good deal. 
“E. B. P. Greene, N. Y.” 
“Burbank Seedling Potato. — Replying 
in part to the question of J. B., Westmore¬ 
land, N.Y., I wish to say that, in North¬ 
eastern Ohio we consider the Burbank 
Seedling an excellent potato. It is a hardy 
potato, a good keeper, and this year (which 
has been an exceptionally dry one here) 
I raised 270 bushels from five bushels of 
seed, without further cultivation than was 
given the held corn, the potatoes being in 
one corner of a 20-acre corn field. Then- 
average size was large, and I have yet to 
find one which is not solid. I have one 
specimen weighing 3% pounds. * * * ” 
Medium sized potatoes of this variety carefully selected from year to 
year from my original stock. By mail, 15 cents each; one hundred 
pounds by express, $3.50. 
