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north latitude ; still by setting good strong 

 plants of the earliest varieties, by the first of 

 June, on rich, sandy ridges, fair crops of good 

 1 tubers may be obtained for home use, and the 

 'demand for plants is sufficient to warrant a 

 dealer in vegetable plants in keeping at least a 

 few thousand in supply. There are growers 

 no farther south than central Ohio who make 

 the production of sweet-potato plants almost 

 a sole business, and annually sell hundreds of 

 thousands of them. North of this latitude, the 

 variety which has given the greatest satisfac- 

 tion in the past is the Early Nansemond. This 

 variety has been kept for years in northern 

 Ohio, where the sweet potato is profitably 

 grown, although at quite a high latitude. It 

 has therefore become acclimated, and will pro- 

 bably do better at the north when planted 

 from these northern-grown tubes than if the 

 seed was brought from the south. A new 

 variety has lately been introduced, called the 

 Early Peabody, which is claimed to be at least 

 . ten days earlier than the Nansemond, while at 

 the same time it grows larger and is of excel- 

 lent quality. If, upon further trial, all these 

 claims are sustained, it certainly will prove a 

 very valuable acquisition to northern planters. 



