. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; B. K. Bliss (Firm); Flowers; Plants; Vegetables; Gardening. POTATOES—iContiuued.) COMPTOH'S SURPRISE. Eight hitstjked and T-n-EXir-six bushels pek acke. Thieteen bushels feoh oxe POUND OF TUBERS PLA>'TED.—This wonderful Potato, wonderful for its tine qualitj-, productive- ness, size and beauty, is now otfered to the public for the lirst tinia. It is a seedling of the Piinue Albert fertilized uitS the polle
. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; B. K. Bliss (Firm); Flowers; Plants; Vegetables; Gardening. POTATOES—iContiuued.) COMPTOH'S SURPRISE. Eight hitstjked and T-n-EXir-six bushels pek acke. Thieteen bushels feoh oxe POUND OF TUBERS PLA>'TED.—This wonderful Potato, wonderful for its tine qualitj-, productive- ness, size and beauty, is now otfered to the public for the lirst tinia. It is a seedling of the Piinue Albert fertilized uitS the pollen of the Long Pinkeye, and was originated in 187U by Jir. D. A. Comp- ton of Hawley, Penn., the author of " The SlOO Prize Essay on the Potato and its ; The tirst year from seed there were four Potatoes weighing one-half pound. The following Spring, these were cut to single eyes, and planted on poor soU. The product of the half jiound wa& three Ituudrtd and ninety-one pounds, sixty-two pounds of beautiful tubere being picked from the smface of a measured rod, as it is a peculiaritj- of this Potato that it matures a crop on the surface tuider the foliage. Most of these, however, were lost by frost the foDo\\ing 'Winter. The past season they were planted in soil, from which a poor crop had been taken the previous year, and, although the season was Terry unfavorable, this seedling yielded six times more than the Rose and other old sorts planted by it, and remained sound while the old varieties rotted badly. One-half bushel planted where the soil "was a little shaded, rielded seventy-six and three-fourths bushels of Potatoes, from which but one-half bushel of small ones could be sorted, the entire yield being at the rate of eight htrndred and ticentij-six bushels to the acre. These Potatoes are invariably sound to the center, a hoUow one having never yet been foimd. It retains its quaUtj- perfectly throughout the year, ap- pearing on the table Uke
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