. Catalogue for 1897 of seeds and implements. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. SEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 37 POTATOES, flartoffel. From eight to ten bushels are required to plant an acre. The potato seems to thrive in almost any soil or climate, but a good sandy- loam suits it best. Old sod plowed the previous Fall, will produce the most abundant and certain crops. On no other crop are the results from the use of phosphates more manifest than on the potato. Organic manure promotes rot and
. Catalogue for 1897 of seeds and implements. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. SEEDS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 37 POTATOES, flartoffel. From eight to ten bushels are required to plant an acre. The potato seems to thrive in almost any soil or climate, but a good sandy- loam suits it best. Old sod plowed the previous Fall, will produce the most abundant and certain crops. On no other crop are the results from the use of phosphates more manifest than on the potato. Organic manure promotes rot and other diseases, while mineral manures prevent them and will grow smooth fine tubers. Plant as early in the spring as the ground can be thoroughly worked, in rows three feet apart, and ten inches apart in the row; plant one or two eyes in a hill (cut from the surface to the center of the tuber), cover three to four inches. Cultivate frequently from the time the young plants appear above the surface of the ground until they blossom. At each hoeing throw the earth up to the plant for support, and to develop the side shoots. In some sections, yfo/ culture is preferred to ridging, especially where drought prevails, or the soil is light and sandy. Prices subject to change. Beauty of Elberon. This has no equal for quality, from the time it is large enough to eat, until late the next Spring; white, floury, tine grained, and of the most delicate flavor. It is very early, producing large crops, of handsome tubers, uniformly of good size, oolong, slightly flattened in shape, very smooth, with few and shallow eyes. Color, russet white; skin, thin, . Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cadwell & Jones; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Hartford, Conn. : Cadwell & J
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