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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



Early Ohio. The most popular early kind and a good 

 sort for the general crop, productive and very early. 



Burbank, or Burbank's Seedling, is, an excellent late 

 kind and a good keeper, but seems to be running out in some 

 sections. It cooks a little soggy until winter, when it is of ex- 

 cellent table quality. Form long and round. 



Rural New Yorker No. '2. Form flat, roundish oblong, 

 very productive. Quality a little inferior and sometimes in- 

 clined to be hollow. Very popular in some sections. It is-' 

 undoubtedly much influenced by the soil on which it grows. 



Fig. 99.— Six good varieties of late potatoes. 1.— Rural New Yorker 

 No. 2. 2.— American Wonder. 3.— Irish Cobbler. 4.— World's Fair. 5.— 

 Woodbury White. '6.— Carman No. l. 



Early Rose, is the progenitor of most of our good kinds. 

 It was introduced into cultivation about 1868 and is still pro- 

 ductive in the best potato districts of this section but is not 

 now adapted to general use. 



Other varieties of special merit of theearly kinds are Early 

 Acme and Vaughan: of medium and late kinds are American 

 Wonder, White Prolific, Maggie Murphy and Delaware. 



Note on Propagation. New varieties of potatoes are gen- 

 erally high in price, and it is desirable to increase 

 them rapidly. This may be done as follows: Place 

 the tubers in rich soil in a box or in pots, without cut- 

 ting them, in a warm, light room, hotbed or greenhouse. As 

 soon as the sprouts are nicely furnished with roots, break 

 them off at the surface of the potato below the roots and plant 



