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76. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

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best medium early potatoes with which we are acquainted. Grows large, heavy cropper and is the best keeper on the list. Have been kept sound and good as late as July. The tubers are large, round, very shallow eyes and in quality is excellent. From our own experiments we do not hesitate to recommend the Potentate as first-class. Per lb. 25c; by express or freight, per pk. 50c; bu. $1.50; bbl. $3.50.
Burbank Seedling--Produces a large crop of handsome tubers, almost uniform in size, and which always commands a high price in the market; per lb. 35c; by express or freight, per pk. 40c; bu. $1.25 ; bbl. $2.75.
Almo--Grows even in size, white, slightly russeted, smooth, nearly round, fine quality, medium late, a heavy cropper and excellent keeper. Per. lb. 25c; by express or freight, per pk. 40c; bu. $1.25; bbl. $2.75.

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Bonanza--This magnificent new variety which we introduced in 1887 is a medium late, and has become one of the leading market varieties for a main crop. Tubers are large, oblong, somewhat flattened, skin smooth, flesh firm, white and fine-grained. Its perfect shape, great productiveness, superior quality, freedom from rot and blight, and its not being affected by draught, makes it in every respect a first-class potato. Its strong, robust growth renders it less liable to be affected by bugs, and its upright, stocky habit makes it possible to plant closer than most kinds. Quality the very best, equal, and by some considered superior, to the Peachblow and Snowflake. Cooks dry and mealy, either boiled or baked. Per lb. 25c; by express or freight, pk. 50c; bu. $1.25; bbl. $3.00.
The Bonanza Potato bought of you proves to be the very best table potato we ever used.
BRYSON BRUCE,
March 11, '89. Garden Grove, Iowa.

SPECIAL OFFER.
We will send by express or freight at purchaser's expense one pound each of ten varities [varieties] of potatoes (the purchaser's selection), for only $1.15; or one pound each of all the above 13 varieties and also one pound each of Early Vermont, Pearl of Savoy, Telephone, Early Gem, Vick's White Rose, Dakota Red and Early Maine, twenty in all for $1.75. This will give you an opportunity to try all these first class varieties at merely a nominal cost.

RESURRECTION PLANT.

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A great curiosity. The plants, when dry, roll up into a ball, and can be laid away or kept in that state for months or years, to all appearances perfectly dead; but when placed in a saucer or vase of water they in a few moments unfold and become green and beautiful, and make a very pretty plant as long as they are kept moist. They grow without soil. It is a native of a desert country, where it is blown over the ground by the wind, and whenever it happens to drop into a pool of water, it expands and takes root. When the pool dries up it again rolls itself into a ball and resumes its travels. Price, 20 cts. each; 6 for $1.00.

VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL BOOKS.
It will pay you to read some of the following Agricultural Books, which are written by practical men. Sent postpaid on receipt of price:

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