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Second — Sufficient fertility only to 

 produce a moderate and healthy growth. 



Third — Such treatment of the soil as 

 will encourage growth early in the 

 autumn. In the case of tender plants 

 these precautions will be all the more 

 necessary. 



Fourth — In the case of fruit-bearing 

 trees and plants, avoid over-cropping. 



NOTES ON NEW VARIETIES OF 

 POTATOES. 



Lyman Wall, of Webster, N. Y., 

 writes to the Rural Home an account 

 of the observations he has made upon 

 the quality and productiveness of some 

 of the new varieties of potatoes. In 

 his report, Mr. Wall makes quality and 

 productiveness the two main consid- 

 erations, the next thing being hardi- 

 ness, shape, size, color, etc. He says : 



** Several years ago I discarded the 

 Early Rose, and grew the Early Ver- 

 mont, for an early potato. I think the 

 Vermont far preferable to the Rose. 

 It is more productive, less liable to 

 scab, full as early, and of better quality. 

 Beauty of Hebron, not quite as early 

 as the Vermont. Quality slightly 

 inferior. Have raised the Early Ohio 

 two years and shall discard it. Am 

 satisfied that in some sections it is a 

 first-class early potato, but with me it 

 is inclined to scab, and yields about half 

 as many merchantable potatoes as the 

 Vermont. 



" The Ontario, a new seedling origin- 

 ated by H. H. Doolittle, is the best 

 early variety I am acquainted with. 

 In size, shape, quality and productive- 

 ness, it is as near perfection as anything 

 yet introduced. 



" The Belle, a new seedling of the 

 Early Rose, is one of the best medium 

 early varieties. Ripens about three 

 weeks after the Vermont, is productive, 

 and one of the best table potatoes I hare 

 ever eaten. 



" The Mammoth Pearl, a large white 

 potato of good quality and very produc- 

 tive. With ordinary field culture it 

 produced this season, at the rate of 210 

 bushels per acre of large fine potatoes. 



** The Magnum Bonum is one of the 

 best very large potatoes I ever saw. 

 Season about the same as the Belle. 

 It is a seedling of the White Peach- 

 blow, which it resembles very much in 

 shape and color. The only objection is 

 deep eyes in the seed end, the other 

 eyes are few and of ordinary depth. 

 For poor land I think it preferable to 

 any other variety. Potatoes invariably 

 large. On the poorest soil capable of 

 producing only one in a hill, that one 

 will be large. 



" Have raised Burbank Seedling for 

 two years, and shall discard it. During 

 four days' attendance at the Western 

 New York Fair, I talked with several 

 hundred farmers about the different 

 varieties of potatoes, and nine-tenths of 

 them condemned the Burbank. But I 

 find no potato so poor but some one 

 will praise it, and none so good but 

 some will condemn it. 



" For a late potato I know of nothing 

 equal to the White Whipple, originated 

 from the Whipple. No potato has 

 given such universal satisfaction to 

 customers as the Whipple. In spite of 

 its objectionable color it has won favor, 

 and no potato is more sought after in 

 the Rochester market. 



*'The White Whipple is equal in 

 every respect, and has the advantage of 

 being white, very much resembling the 

 old White Pinkeye. When on exhibi- 

 tion at the fair this fall, many old 

 farmers declared it to be their old 

 favoiite, the White Pinkeye. 



" We commence eating it at digging 

 time, and eat nothing else till potatoes 

 grow again. It is not as late as the 

 Peachblow, but ripens before frost. I 

 planted half an acre this season, the 



