. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. EARLY ROSE. The general verdict of the com- munity through the agricultural press of the country, is that the Early Rose is a great acquisition in earliness, yield, and quality. Probably no potato was ever intro- duced that grew so suddenly into general favor as the Early Rose. This potato is now so generally known I feel it entirely unnecessary to occupy my catalogue with testimonia
. Annual circular and retail catalogue of warranted vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. EARLY ROSE. The general verdict of the com- munity through the agricultural press of the country, is that the Early Rose is a great acquisition in earliness, yield, and quality. Probably no potato was ever intro- duced that grew so suddenly into general favor as the Early Rose. This potato is now so generally known I feel it entirely unnecessary to occupy my catalogue with testimonials of its great productiveness. My Southern customers will find the Early Rose an excellent sort to raise for the early Northern markets. My seed stock was procured directly from the orig- inal growers and is warranted true to name. My customers will be careful not to seed too heavily with this potato ; five bushels cut up into pieces of one and two eyes each and dropped in drills, the pieces being 14 inches apart, will be sufficient seeding 1j the acre. The crop of this and all other sorts is improved in yield and less liable to rot when planted as early as the soil can be well worked. The yield of the Early Rose among my farmer neighbors, who understand high cultivation, has been as high as 350 bushels to the acre in a tract of four acres. EXCELSIOR POTATO. (See engraving this page.) The varieties are few and far between that com- bine so many good qualities for all purposes for which this potato is raised as the " ; Its remarka- ble excellence as a table potato, its valuable characteristic of retaining its superior cooking qualities the year round, (a somewhat remarkable feature, obviating in a great measure the necessity of having early potatoes, when old ones of this kind arc better than early ones of most other kinds,) make it among the most desirable of all the varieties that are now before the public. In many localities it has proved very productive,
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