. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. 0MATEUR ^CULTIVATOR'S M^IDE. Per pkt POTATOES, Superior. (New,187T.) The parentage of this variety is the same as that ol the ; It was produced in 1873, from a feed-ball of i^j Browncll's Beauty fertilized with I'cachhlow. The yield of this new seed- n ling potato is enormous: six hundred and seventj'-three pounds were ^ grown from one pound of seed during a season of unprecedented drought,
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. 0MATEUR ^CULTIVATOR'S M^IDE. Per pkt POTATOES, Superior. (New,187T.) The parentage of this variety is the same as that ol the ; It was produced in 1873, from a feed-ball of i^j Browncll's Beauty fertilized with I'cachhlow. The yield of this new seed- n ling potato is enormous: six hundred and seventj'-three pounds were ^ grown from one pound of seed during a season of unprecedented drought, when many older varieties did not yield enough to pay for the digging. Its tubers are medium to largo, elongated, oval, or cylindrical, of a peculiar dark copper color, and very uniform and handsome in appearance. Skin A ' very fine and smooth, eyes few and small. The vines are strong and *^ ' healthy, and the growth of the roots and tubers close around tlio stalks. It ripens second early, or medium late; keeps well during winter, and retains its mealiness and excellent table qualities through the entire sea- son. A certificate of merit was awarded to this variety at the great International Potato Kxhibition at London last September. 1 lb. 60 cts; 3 lbs., $, by mail, postpaid. Alpha. The very earliest variety for farm or garden culture, also for forcing under glass, fit for table ten or fifteen days before the Early Rose. Tuber of medium size, oblong, somewhat flattened, with eyes but slightly depressed; flesh very white, fine grained, dry, and firm. We recommend this as the best early variety in cultivation. 1 lb. 60 cts.; 3 lbs., $, by mail, postpaid. SnowflakCt One of the earliest varieties. The tubers are of a good medium size; skin white with a russety tinge; fle-li exceedingly finegrained, snow-white when boiled, and of a lightness and porosity almost approach- ing a snowflake. It has good keeping quali'ies, samples the first of June not showing the least deterior
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