. 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. POTATOKS-lCoiitinued.) Brownell's Beauty, (Brownell.) Size, medium to large, growing verj' fair and smooth. Eyes few ami small, nearly even with the surface; shape oval, somewhat flattened; skin reddish, or a deep flesh color; flesh white, tine-grained and very delicate. I''or tlie table, they cook either by baking or boiling equal to the very best, flavor unexceptionable. Vine of medium growth; foliage deep
. 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. POTATOKS-lCoiitinued.) Brownell's Beauty, (Brownell.) Size, medium to large, growing verj' fair and smooth. Eyes few ami small, nearly even with the surface; shape oval, somewhat flattened; skin reddish, or a deep flesh color; flesh white, tine-grained and very delicate. I''or tlie table, they cook either by baking or boiling equal to the very best, flavor unexceptionable. Vine of medium growth; foliage deep green. The tubers grow compactly in the hill and are easily dug, ripening in about three months from time of planting, though suiiable tor cooking about two weeks later than the Early Rose. A Hrst-class cerliUcate was awarded this variety by the Royal Horticultural Society of London, in 1873. One jiound, 60 cents; three pounds for $ by mail to one address, post-paid. By express ^ bushel, $1-50; 1 bushel", $; 1 barrel, $ Compton's Surprise. Remarkable for its size, quality and productiveness. Us shape is oval- oblong, eyes sunken, brow prominent, skin smooth, color reddish-purple, flesh while; grows to a large size, and is invariably sound to the center. It retains its quality ;7fj/f(7/.(/throughout the year, appearing on tin- table like a ball of flour. Thon,saiKls have testitied that 'they never ate a better Potato. Its uniform mealiness of grain, combined with the purest flavor, and its snowy whiteness of flesh, which is not in the least affected by its blue skin, can not fail to make it highly valuable. One pound, GO cents; three pounds, $ by mail, prepaid. Bv express or freight, charges paid by the purchaser, 1 peck, $; y, bushel, $; 1 bushel. $;"l barrel, $ Ohio Beauty. A seedling of G. W. Campbell, of Delaware, Ohio, who thus describes it: "This magniflcent new seedling Potato has fully sustained its character the present
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