. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. PEAS AXD POTATOES 91 your market's requirements. Among the best early varieties I might mention: Early Rose, Early Michi- gan, Early Ohio, Early Norther, Early Bovee, Early White Ohio, etc. Among the best late or main-crop varieties, are: Rural New-Yorker, Carman No. 3, Sir Walter Raleigh, Great Divide, Vermont Gold Coin, Nebraska, ]\Iammoth Pearl, Rose Seedling, Burbank, Uncle Sam, State of Maine, etc. In the North early potatoes, like peas, are planted in ]March or April as soo
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. PEAS AXD POTATOES 91 your market's requirements. Among the best early varieties I might mention: Early Rose, Early Michi- gan, Early Ohio, Early Norther, Early Bovee, Early White Ohio, etc. Among the best late or main-crop varieties, are: Rural New-Yorker, Carman No. 3, Sir Walter Raleigh, Great Divide, Vermont Gold Coin, Nebraska, ]\Iammoth Pearl, Rose Seedling, Burbank, Uncle Sam, State of Maine, etc. In the North early potatoes, like peas, are planted in ]March or April as soon as the ground becomes dry enough (tu- bers will rot if planted in too wet a soil). Fall plow- ing is, of course, a help to early planting; so is tile draining. The plant is sensitive to frost, but usually the sprouts take so long a time to get above ground that frost danger is mostly over before they appear; at a critical time, however, 'tis possible, I find, to plow or hoe a little soil on to the tender sprouts and thus outwit Jack Frost. Main or late crop potatoes are planted in the North any time between about May loth and June 1st. Iji Georgia early potatoes are planted about February ist, I am told. "Second-crop potatoes" : In some of the south ern states a double cropping system is practised, the second crop being grown the same season from seed produced by the first crop. For full particulars about this method, write to the United States De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and ask for free Farmers' Bulletin No. fmUni'". A MACHINF, PIITA l()-I>I,ANTER OPENS THE FURROWS, PLANTS THE SEED, COVERS IT AND MARKS THE NEXT ROW. 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 Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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