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districts. Beginning with the earliest, the " King of the Earlies,'' 

 Breezee's No. 4, 1 can report that dug and marketed the last of June ; 

 they netted me seven dollars per barrel in New York market ; yield, 

 forty -four barrels per acre ; quality, unimpeachable. 



Early Rose comes next, turning out from forty to fifty barrels to 

 the acre, though more hurt by the drought, quality No. 1. With 

 proper care the Early Rose will not disappoint reasonable expectation. 

 They market as well as any variety, a most important point in potato 

 culture. This planting sorts which do not command a ready sale — 

 merely size, beauty, yield or quality — is " played out." Excelsior is, 

 to-day, the best early potato before the public, as any disinterested 

 man acquainted with it will allow. But it has no one to sing its 

 praise and puff it into the popularity of some other kinds. Though 

 the stock in the country is small, there is no speculation in it. Worth 

 five dollars per barrel ; yield, sixty-six barrels to acre. In all desir- 

 able points, as a late potato, the No. 6, or Peerless, "has no peer." 

 It ripens in September, is enormously productive, averaging with me 

 this year, as a field crop, 160 barrels, or 460 bushels to the acre. A 

 small plot with the highest culture attained a yield much greater 

 even in proportion. Maturing with this is the " Late Rose," so-called 

 " sport," of the Early Rose, an accidental variety, originating in a 

 habit peculiar to these tubers. Among my Rose I have, for the past 

 three years, noted various specimens of this class bearing a general 

 resemblance to each other, with a characteristic difference of ripening 

 later. Owing to the severe drought of last spring, the later kinds 

 obtained a better growth than the earlier. Thus, the Late Rose reached 

 fifty-four barrels to the acre. I regard their present reputation as 

 fictitious and unsound, and I do not expect to hear much noise made 

 about them after this season. The White-eye White Peachblow is 

 strictly first-class, and is much the best Peachblow I have ever seen. 

 I plant no other kind, having entirely discarded for it the favcrite 

 New Jersey White Peachblow. The London White is a lovely 

 potato, and good as it looks ; if used early, it rather leads the Rose 

 in point of time. Like in appearance, but so far superior in all other 

 points, a seedling which was exhibited at the Institute fair, and known 

 as the White Rose, deserves mention. It yielded at the rate of 100 

 barrels to the acre with careful culture, but is, as yet, too young to 

 demand confidence. These above mentioned I have recommended 

 as most likely to give satisfaction, out of nearly 100 kinds which I 

 have cultivated and experimented with, primarily for my own per- 



