. Annual circular and retail catalogue of choice vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. 27 acter, and gave them the same treatment. I went over this experimental field several times during the two past seasons, carefully making notes. The sum of the results of my experiment is, that while I leave the Excelsior in the high rank which it holds, sustained by the various emphatic testimonials which are given on the preceding page, and not detract- ing anything from its merits,
. Annual circular and retail catalogue of choice vegetable and flower seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs. 27 acter, and gave them the same treatment. I went over this experimental field several times during the two past seasons, carefully making notes. The sum of the results of my experiment is, that while I leave the Excelsior in the high rank which it holds, sustained by the various emphatic testimonials which are given on the preceding page, and not detract- ing anything from its merits, I have decided to award to Mr. Albert Brcsee, the introducer of the Early Rose and Bresee's No. 6, or Peerless, the prize of $100, as these potatoes, everything considered, are superior to any of the great number of varieties sent me for trial. The Peerless is the most productive potato I have ever raised. Mr. Bresee's success in producing new seedr lings has been most remarkable, and I am very happy to award him this hundred dollars as some return for the great gift that he has made the agricultural public. I make mention of Early Rose and Peerless only, but others of his varieties are potatoes of great merit, suf- ficient of themselves to give fame to the introducer. The New Hampshire .Seedling is an abundant cropper, remarkably early, and the potatoes grew to a large size, having a yellowish-white flesh. This potato has ripened Avith me with some irregularity this season ; while a portion of the crop was decidedly earlier than the Early Rose, the vines on other portions kept green somewhat late in the season. "Of the fifteen sorts of potatoes I planted, the i-Tew Hamp- shire Seedling was the earliest," Alfred Crane. Goshen, N. Y, Oct. 1, 1870. The Early Mohawk. This potato is of fine mar- ket size. It has a pink blush near the eye. Most of the Mohawks I planted this season were very much sprouted and this seemed to so far exhaust them, that many of the cuttings fa
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