. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. No. 1.—PRIDE OF Ax>IEKICA. This suj)erb variety was raised by Mj-. K. s. Browuell, to whom we are alreaily indeb
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. No. 1.—PRIDE OF Ax>IEKICA. This suj)erb variety was raised by Mj-. K. s. Browuell, to whom we are alreaily indebted for a number of well-known and valuable varieties, ii closely resembles the well-known Snowllake, l)ui ripens a few days later, and is a(l:i])tc(l to a greater variety of soils, moi'e produelive, .i;i ()ws to a larger size, and produces but a very few small tubers, and, so far, has shown no signs of disease. Flesh exceed- ingly fine-grained and of snowj' whiteness, i t is an excellent keeper, and retains all its good qualities tliroughout the entire season. No. This excellent variety ^vas raised from a seed-ball of the Early Hose, fertilized with the White Peach Blow. The tuljers are generally round, but occa- sionally oblong and flattened; ver}- handsome and symmetrical iu form; skin sliglitly russeted, pale red, except the eyes and seed (siid, whei e it is much brighter; eyes slightly depressed. Flesh fine grain, pure white, of excellent quality. It is a great crop- per, an excellent keeper, and has never yet shown imy .signs of disease. It ripens with the Peerless, and will b(; found eciually valuable for the general crop. Its attractive appearanc*', great productive- ness, and fine quality make it one of the most valu- able varieties for the market. No. JSKIN. This variety was raised by one of our most suc- cessful cultivators from a cross of the Early and the Wliite Peach Blow. It resembies the Peerless in man}' respects, but is earlier
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