Archive image from page 15 of Delano Bros catalogue of choice. Delano Bros. catalogue of choice field and garden seeds delanobroscatalo1890dela Year: 1890 14 DELANO BROS, LEE PARK. NEBR. tresher's seedling potato. 500 bushels per acre at 25c per bushel $ That pays. Tresher's Seedling:—This is a magnificent late potato, tremendous cropper, flattened oval shape, white skin and flesh. It has grown very free from disease for us. Splendid keeper and cooker. By mail, 25c $ 5 lbs post paid. By express or freight, 30c peck, 75c bushel, $2 25 barrel. Humplirey's Potato Knife—In preparin
Archive image from page 15 of Delano Bros catalogue of choice. Delano Bros. catalogue of choice field and garden seeds delanobroscatalo1890dela Year: 1890 14 DELANO BROS, LEE PARK. NEBR. tresher's seedling potato. 500 bushels per acre at 25c per bushel $ That pays. Tresher's Seedling:—This is a magnificent late potato, tremendous cropper, flattened oval shape, white skin and flesh. It has grown very free from disease for us. Splendid keeper and cooker. By mail, 25c $ 5 lbs post paid. By express or freight, 30c peck, 75c bushel, $2 25 barrel. Humplirey's Potato Knife—In preparing potatoes to plant there is no other that equals Humphrey's Concave and Curved Potato Knife. It is thin and of such shape as to cut the potatoes in solid form with the starchy portion sur- rounding the eye, and protecting it from drying before planting, as well as bear- ing it readily available for the use of tho new plant. Price 35c each, post paid. PUMPKIN. Sow first of May in hills 8 feet apart. King of tlie Mammotlis—Some have been grown which weighed 300 lbs: are quite prolific. Flesh and skin are golden yellow. They are fine srpiued and of excellent quality for table use, and are eaten greedily bV cattle and hogs. With ordinary cultivation in a corn field will attain a weight of 165 lbs. Packet ItV. oz. 25c, i lb 50c. Connecticut Field—Grown extensively for stock. Excellent for pies—the good old pie pumpkin of our grandmother's days. Oz. 5c, J lb 10c, lb •'•5c 5 lbs $1 0(i Nantucket Sugar—This is comparatively unknown outside of a few of the Eastern States, where it is used exclusively for making the celebrited Yxnkfk Pumpkin Pies The skin is very dark green, almost black, flesh thirk and of a rich orange yellow. They weigh from 12 to 15 lbs and will keep a ve ir P-ickei 5c, oz. 10c, i lb 30c, lb $ •
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