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Henderson's New Potato. 
THE EARLIEST POTATO GROWN AND THE BEST EXTRA 
EARLY GROWN. :: :: RELIABLE YIELDER OF HANDSOME 
POTATOES OF SUPERFINE QIJALITY, AND A GOOD KEEPER. 
H ENDERSON’S Early Russet we believe to be not only the earliest potato 
grown but the best early potato grown. It is a seedling of 1903, bred from 
two famous early varieties, and grown in Maine, the “potato paradise,” 
which produces the best seed potatoes in America. 
In eailiness Henderson’s Early Russet leads the field, usually being large enough 
for cooking in 8 weeks from planting, and in 9 to 10 weeks is fully matured. 
It is a very handsome potato of rounding, oval form, very uniform in shape 
and size, averaging 4 to 5 inches in length — sometimes larger, seldom smaller. 
Ihe eyes are on the surface and very shallow. The skin of creamy-buff is netted 
golden russet, nature’s hall-mark, as all critics know, of potato quality — which 
axiom is fully sustained in Henderson’s Early Russet, for the flesh is fine-grained, 
as white as snow, cooks dry and floury, “sheds its jacket” when boiled, and its 
flavor is particularly mild and delicious. 
T he v i nes > while of neat, compact, upright growth, make large, healthy foliage 
which has so far proven blight proof. The tubers grow bunched compactly in the 
hill permitting close planting, rows 2 to 2 \ feet apart and hills 9 to 10 inches apart, 
with only one eye to a hill. Under this method the potatoes will grow as nearly 
alike as peas in a pod and yield surprisingly large crops. 
Not the least of the merits of Henderson’s Early Russet is its wonderful keeping 
quality. Although it matures so early yet it will' keep—properly stored—in prime 
condition, firm and plump, until June. (See cut.) 
Price, 40c. per lb., 3 lbs. $1.00 (postage paid), or if buyer pays expressage or 
freight, $1.75 peck, $6.00 bushel, $12.50 barrel. 
What 
Potato Experts 
Think of Henderson's Early Russet: 
“Your new potato—Early Russet—is by far the best 
cooking jwtato that I have ever tasted. Had the season here 
not been so dry, which jtrevented early potatoes from taking 
on size, the Early Russets would have yielded 200 barrels 
per acre, for iri some of the hills there were as many as 
twenty potatoes.'' 
L. S. BEAN, Presque Isle, Maine. 
our Early Russet is the handsomest first early potato 
tluit I have ever seen, and I have grown over WOO varieties. 
Shape excellent and uniform; quality splendid.” 
J. R. LAWRENCE, Eden Trial Grounds, 
Raynham, Mass. 
11 The Early Russet Potatoes did well. We had some 
baked today for the first time. Not in 40 years since I left 
my boyhood home in Massachusetts have I enjoyed a 
potato as I did your Early Russet. Words fail to express 
the glorious taste, so perfectly light and dry. It was a 
dream. I ?nade a meal of them, not wishing anything 
else.” 
CHARLES F. EMERY , Friday Harbor , TFas/i. 
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