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KING OF MICHIGAN.— Another 
year’s trial has fully confirmed our 
former good opinion of this great new 
variety. We grew it on heavy land 
and it gave us an immense crop, fine 
handsome tubers of nice size. No 
overgrown ones and very few small 
ones. We are confident the King of 
Michigan is to be one of the most 
popular medium season varieties. 
i. Because it is of the very high¬ 
est quality. 
2. Because it yields with very heav¬ 
iest-cropping late sorts. 
3. Because it is handsome. 
4. Because of its fine form and 
beautifully netted velvety skin it will 
outsell any other variety whatsoever. 
The shape of the tuber is well 
shown in the illustration, in which a 
common peck market basket is used 
for comparison. Eyes very shallow, 
some with prominent brow and above 
the surface; vines healthy, rampant 
KING OF MICHIGAN. 
growers, which branch and spread 
until they completely cover the 
ground on good soil. Season 70 to 
80 days. 
This grand new variety was first 
offered in 1901 by ourselves as sole 
introducers. 
The King of Michigan originated 
with Marvin Bovee, the noted Michi¬ 
gan potato specialist, who gave it its 
name as the only proper expression 
of its many good qualities. He says 
with him it outyielded all the Carmen 
varieties in 1899. Mr. Bovee has been 
testing a hundred varieties or more 
each season for years, and should 
know what he is talking about, and 
we believe he does; and we believe 
he speaks what he considers true 
when he says the King of Michigan 
fills a place in the market which no 
other potato in cultivation does or 
can fill. 
Space will admit of but very few 
testimonials regarding King of Mich¬ 
igan. The few which follow will be 
sufficient to confirm what we say as 
to yield and quality. 
Mr. Beckwith, of Howell, Mich., 
writes: “Your King of Michigan is 
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