. Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds : for the vegetable garden, for the flower garden, for the lawn, for the farm, for the nursery. Commercial catalogs New York (State) New York; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. "The Thorburn" Potato!^. NEW BLOOD OF EXTRAORDINARY MERIT. EmiER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THE BEAUTY OF HEBRON OF WHICH IT IS A _==SELF SEEDLING =^ It was not produced hy crossivg loUTi any otJier variety. Tlie seed, bolls ipere found in a large field of '?'?Beauty of Hebron^ Being a SELF
. Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds : for the vegetable garden, for the flower garden, for the lawn, for the farm, for the nursery. Commercial catalogs New York (State) New York; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. "The Thorburn" Potato!^. NEW BLOOD OF EXTRAORDINARY MERIT. EmiER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN THE BEAUTY OF HEBRON OF WHICH IT IS A _==SELF SEEDLING =^ It was not produced hy crossivg loUTi any otJier variety. Tlie seed, bolls ipere found in a large field of '?'?Beauty of Hebron^ Being a SELF SEEDLING, it partalies of all the PURE, REFINED, UNADULTERATED qualities of its parent without any admixture of baser blood. From the first year it has shoion, and rapidly developed superior and marJced qualities, •which place it in the front rank of Early Market varieties. In quality it is fully equal to its parent, which of itself is high praise, but it is a stronger grower, and as a field crop will yield at least a tliird more per acre. So far it 7ias grown wonderfully smooth and handsome, and lohat is more extraordinary, a hollow or unsound one has not been seen. Another important claim we maJce for it is, that a measured bushel will weigh from three to five pounds more than the same measure of any other variety, and, yet it is not HEAVY in the sense of being soggy when cooked. It is dry and floury, with a compact and fine grain. In fact the main essentials required in a new, early market variety are combined, in a wonderful degree in "THE THORBURN" POTATO, such as size, beauty, table qualities, earli- ness and productiveness. The wiginator writes to us under date of March 5, 1885 : '?'As you have already introduced several valuable and standard varieties, three of which '?'•originated with me, I now take pleasure in passing the entire control of this valuable early " market variety into your hands, with the expectation that you will, for the third time,
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