. Seed and plant catalogue 1900. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Burpee's Early—The potatoes are uniformly of good size, entirely free from rough or scabby tubers, with very few small ones; oblong in shape, very smooth eyes, set well on the surface, skin creamy white, slightly shaded with pink; the flesh is pure white, re- markably fine grained, and of the very_ best table qual- ity. The tubers grow very compactly in the hill, with sirong and vigorous foliage of an int
. Seed and plant catalogue 1900. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Burpee's Early—The potatoes are uniformly of good size, entirely free from rough or scabby tubers, with very few small ones; oblong in shape, very smooth eyes, set well on the surface, skin creamy white, slightly shaded with pink; the flesh is pure white, re- markably fine grained, and of the very_ best table qual- ity. The tubers grow very compactly in the hill, with sirong and vigorous foliage of an intensely dark green ; it is a sure cropper, immensely productive, and will undoubiedly become the standard extra EARLY POTATO of the near future. By express or freight, peck 25<l-, bu. 75?. Early Six Weeks—The Early Six Weeks is very evi- dently a seedling from the Ohio, which it very closely resembles in every way, but is earlier, makes rather taller stalks, and appears to yield better on upland than that fine variety. It is well described as grow- ing medium to large size; oblong to round in shape; skin light pink; flesh white; shape smooth; eyes near the surface; tubers grow close together in the hill. The potatoes grow so rapidly that, under favor- able circumstances, they are fir for family use in six weeks from time of pln,nting, and mature in between ten and eleven weeks. We find it a good yielder. and though not so extraordinary productive as some claim, still a remarkably good cropper for so early a sort. It revels in moist land. Peck 2o<p, bu. 75^^. Early Ohio—is still one of the best seandard early potato for this section of the country. Home grown. Peck ^0^, bu. eo-?; Northern grown, peck 3(i^', bu. $ The Irish Daisy—(-ZV^eio Late Potato)—This new late potato is a seedling ot Empire State. It grows uni- formly to good size, with shallow eyes, skin bright straw color, flesh pure white and enormously pro- ductive. The vines are very stocky and vigo
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