. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 94- B. K. Bliss & Sens' Catalogue QUEEN OF THE VAIiLEY. One-fourth avercu/e size. HI EES OF THE ,EY. One o
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 94- B. K. Bliss & Sens' Catalogue QUEEN OF THE VAIiLEY. One-fourth avercu/e size. HI EES OF THE ,EY. One of llic most prolific varieties iu cultivation. Season iiifcdium; tubers very large, hardly any small ones; shape long, tiattened, somewhat square cut at the ends; color, deep pink at the seed end, gradually changing to almost white at the stem end; cooks meal3' without falling into i) Leaves large, thick, and dark green. The vines are large and unusually vigorous, protecting the ground from the direct rays of the sun, and resisting tlisease more than most other kinds which were grown with it. Its only fault, as a table potato, might be found in its enormous size, but it-s immense productiveness, will, no doubt, make it of great value to all who appreciate the nutiitive properties of potatoes as food for live stock of all kinds. 75c. per pound: three pounds, §, by mail, post-paid. By express or freight, at expense of purchaser, ^ per peck; § per bushel; $ per bbl. VARIETIES OF No. 1.—PRIDE OF Ax>IEKICA. This suj)erb variety was raised by Mj-. K. s. Browuell, to whom we are alreaily indebted for a number of well-known and valuable varieties, ii closely resembles the well-known Snowllake, l)ui ripens a few days later, and is a(l:i])tc(l to a greater variety of soils, moi'e produelive, .i;i ()ws to a larger size, and produces but a very few small tubers, and, so far, has shown no signs of disease. Flesh exceed- ingly fine-grained and of snowj'
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