. Richard Frotscher's almanac and garden manual for the southern states . Extra Early I 68 Richard Frotscliers Almanac and Garden Manual. S]U)\vllaki THE SWEET POTATO. ConvoJriilus batatas. The Sweet Potato is next to corn the most important food crop inthe South. They are a wholesome and nutritious diet, good for manand beast. Though cultivated to a limited extent on the sandy landsof New Jersey and some of the middle States, it thrives best on thelight rich lands of the South, which bring their red and golden fruitsto greatest perfection under the benign rays of a southern sun. It
. Richard Frotscher's almanac and garden manual for the southern states . Extra Early I 68 Richard Frotscliers Almanac and Garden Manual. S]U)\vllaki THE SWEET POTATO. ConvoJriilus batatas. The Sweet Potato is next to corn the most important food crop inthe South. They are a wholesome and nutritious diet, good for manand beast. Though cultivated to a limited extent on the sandy landsof New Jersey and some of the middle States, it thrives best on thelight rich lands of the South, which bring their red and golden fruitsto greatest perfection under the benign rays of a southern sun. It is ai:)lant of a warm climate, a child of the sun, much more nutritious thanthe Irish Potato on account of the great amount of saccharine matterit contains, and no southern table should be found without it from thefirst day of August till the last day of May. Some plant early inspring the potato itself in the prepared ridges, and cut the vine fromthe, potato when large enough, and plant them out; others start thepotatoes in a bed prepared expressly Cor that purpose, and slip off thesprouts as they come up, and set these out. The latter metho
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