Vegetable and flower seeds catalogue : free for all . potatowe would recommend for general merits as an early variety in prefer-ence to Clarks Pride, which we illustrate with a specimen taken fromour crop of this season. While as early as New Queen, Thoroughbredand Early Harvest it is of better quality and a first-class cropper for anearly sort, yielding 250 bushels to the acre on our grounds last seasonon fertilizer only, on ground that we cropped with corn the year be-fore which we aiss raised on fertilizer alone. We used on the Clark1500 pounds of Bradleys potato fertilizer, 800 in the hill
Vegetable and flower seeds catalogue : free for all . potatowe would recommend for general merits as an early variety in prefer-ence to Clarks Pride, which we illustrate with a specimen taken fromour crop of this season. While as early as New Queen, Thoroughbredand Early Harvest it is of better quality and a first-class cropper for anearly sort, yielding 250 bushels to the acre on our grounds last seasonon fertilizer only, on ground that we cropped with corn the year be-fore which we aiss raised on fertilizer alone. We used on the Clark1500 pounds of Bradleys potato fertilizer, 800 in the hill thoroughlymixed with the soil and 700 broadcast and harrowed in. A very strongrecommendation for Clarks Pride is its superior quality for the table ;it proved to be the best of 40 varieties grown side bv side. The vinesare stout, healthy, not subject to blight; the tubers are white witheyes close to surf ace, shape very symmetrical. Price, per bbl., perexpress. $4-50 ; per bush., $ ; per peck, 80 cts.; per mail,postpaid, 70 cts.; 1 lb., 30 The extravagant claims made for the Noroton would have turnedus from it as a humbug, but they were made by one of the oldestand most reliable seed firms in the United States, a firm that hasintroduced such now well known potatoes as Beauty of Hebron,Rural New Yorker, and Carmen, Nos. i and varieties that rankabout equal to the Early Ohio, Burbank and Delaware ot our ownintroduction. They make the following remarkable claims for theNoroton It is the earliest Potato ever grown. It is by far the most productive extra-early, yielding as heavilyas any of the medium early sorts. It is handsomer in appearance and more uniform in size andshape than any other variety. Its table finality is superb and it keeps longer than any othersort, early or late. It is the best all-round Potato in existence. These claims are endorsed by men of the highest authority onpotatoes, including E. L. Coy, who originated the Beauty of Hebronand C. L. Allen, the
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