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coin gold by growing it. lie could certainly reap great profit. Vines grow strong, 
root deep and produce immensely. Tubers mostly white, some with slight 
blotches and streaks of pink. Somewhat irregular in form and large: very few 
small ones, and of good quality. It did the best of any sort planted on our 
new ground in 1904. As you are looking for the best there is in new things you 
should test the Gold Coin this year. 
Later Varieties. 
Dewey. Not the early Admiral Dewey, but the late Dewey from Donnell, of 
Xew York. This right new variety is the most promising of any we have tested 
of late and if it becomes generally distributed is bound to be immensely popular. 
A strong grower covering the ground on good soil and a great yielder of 
beautiful round, oblong white tubers which are practically all of market size, 
and no overgrown hollow ones. Of the same type as the Rural New Yorker No. 
2 which it somewhat resembles. The equal of the Rural in its best days before 
it was more or less mixed with other blue stem varieties. We grew this and Har¬ 
vest King the past season on land which was none too good and the crop was a 
surprise to all. Being much larger than was expected. 
If you are looking for a hardy, strong growing, heavy yielding variety which 
is just what the market demands plant the Dewey. 
HARVEST KING. —A great market sort, yielding great crops of beautiful, 
white, oblong tubers and if you need seed, to grow potatoes for market we 
would advise placing a liberal order early for Harvest King, as it is a money 
maker. When we say it is a money maker we get right down to the meat of 
cocoanut as the almighty dollar is what the most of us are after and our 
word for it the more Harvest King you plant the more dollars you will have. 
WHITE GIANT. — In habit of growth this variety seems to be all its name 
implies, as it is certainly an exceptionally strong grower, and great yielder of 
those oblong, flattened, white tubers which are just now so popular in the mar¬ 
kets. Its blue vine and blossom show its Rural New Yorker blood. 
The above illustration is a fair representation of an average tuber, not over¬ 
large. but handsome in form, and as it is an abundant yielder it must be popular 
as soon as generally known. We know of no better. Supply small this year. 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH. One of the old standards as a market sort, which 
has been so many times described that perhaps it is not necessary, but for fear 
some one would want to know we would say that it is a flattened, oblong white 
tuber with medium number of not deep eyes. Born on a blue stem with a blue 
blossom. Always a leader in its class and bound to be as long as its present 
vitality holds out. A good one, some farmers planting it here almost ex¬ 
clusively. 
WASHINGTON. A light green stalk which grows extra strong, bearing large 
to very large tubers which are more or less irregular in form, white in color with 
medium number of quite prominent eyes. 
This variety will never be popular for private gardens on account of its 
indifferent quality, but will be grown largely by the farmer who grows potatoes 
for market as it is uniformly large and a great yielder of potatoes which will 
sell. If you grow potatoes to supply a shipping demand we feel assured this 
will please you. It will certainly give you a great crop. Try it. 
MIDLION dollar. Several years ago we secured several new sorts from 
Salzer and his Million Dollar is the only one we considered worth keeping. 
This one we shall retain as long as its present great vitality holds out We 
described it many times and only wish to say that it grows strong and 
produces immensely of . those oblong, flattened white tubers which are just now 
so popular iu the market and so much in demand for the private garden on oe- 
10,1,11 their uniformly great yield of good quality. 
WHITTEN'S WHITE MAMMOTH. -Not a mammoth hollow tuber bv any 
means, but a good sized tuber the form of which is well shown in the illustra¬ 
tion and very few small ones. Blue blossom, blue vine which grows very 
strong, producing immense crops of those beautiful oblong, flattened white 
tubers, so popular in the market and for main crop of late potatoes for the 
shipping trade. 
1 1,e genuineness of this seed has been questioned by parties in Ohio but we 
secured it of a reliable seedsman in the Hast for Whitten’s White Mammoth 
which we believe it is and so long as it yields as it does and gives us line 
potatoes ol good quality we shall continue to grow it and offer it to our friends 
as a good thing. The past season we grew it on thin land and tubers are not 
quite as large as common. 
Potatoes O. K. 
A fine lot of seed; 
St Clair Co.. Mich., April 18, 1904. 
will send you customers next week. 
HENRY VAN SLAM BROOK. 
