. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; W. Atlee Burpee Company; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Seeds. New Potato-" GREAT DIVIDE "-for Main Crop. " This day I first caught sight of the Rocky Mountains, 'The Great Divide' between Eastern and Western Oceans.'1—Zebulon Pike. Nov. 15, 1806. PRI7F AWARDS* ^n 1894 we offered an equal series of cash prizes amounting to $ to our customers in the States east and west of the Rocky Mountains for the best and heaviest yield from one pound of
. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; W. Atlee Burpee Company; Nursery stock; Flowers; Vegetables; Seeds. New Potato-" GREAT DIVIDE "-for Main Crop. " This day I first caught sight of the Rocky Mountains, 'The Great Divide' between Eastern and Western Oceans.'1—Zebulon Pike. Nov. 15, 1806. PRI7F AWARDS* ^n 1894 we offered an equal series of cash prizes amounting to $ to our customers in the States east and west of the Rocky Mountains for the best and heaviest yield from one pound of seed. This competition fully substantiated the high claims of the originator and brought forth a vast amount of testi- mony in favor of THE GREAT DIVIDE as the best Main-Crop Potato now known. The First Prize of $ for the largest yield from one pound of potatoes grown EAST of the Rocky Mountains; also the Special Prize of $ for largest yield either east or west of t he Rocky Mountains, in all$, were awarded to C. H. Davis, Carmel, Me., who raised 1206% pounds. Then five prizes were awarded as fol- lows for the crops named (each raised from only one pound of the tubers): Gilman Weymouth, Carmel, Me., 1198% lbs.—J. Webster Lewis, Powell, S. Dak., 968 lbs.—J. H. Whitman, Weeds- port, N. Y., 914 lbs.—Frank B. Smith, Danville, 111., 880 lbs.—Arthur Nelson, Poestenkill, N. Y., 795 lbs. WEST of the Rocky Mountains the First Prize, of $ was won by Hoover & Moore, Antlers, Col., who raised 987 pounds from one. The five following prizes were won respectively oy the parties named below, whose crops, from one pound of seed, weighed as stated: P. H. Chapel, Crab Creek, Wash., 795 lbs—Mrs. Sylvania King, Marengo, Wash., 751% lbs.— Eldred E. Eagle, Nampa, Idaho, 567% lbs.— Mrs. Mary C. Brown, Davis Creek, Cal., 542 lbs. —Philip Parke, Cache Creek, B. C, 480% Shoving habit of growth in the hill. From a Photograph. GREAT DIVIDE Takes the Lead ! A
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