R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., BOSTON. VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



Irish Cobbler. 



POTATOES. 



Priees Subject to Variations of the Market. 

 A good, sandy loam produces the best potatoes, but they can be grown on all kinds of soil. New or pasture land, with the tun 

 freshly turned, produces the finest crop. .\Iake furrows of good depth, 3 feet apart. Scatter a liberal dressing of phosphate or decayed 

 stable manure along the drill, and set the seed about 10 inches apart in the rows. Cover with about 2 inches of soil, and begin to culti- 

 vate when the plants are well up. At each successive hoeing, bring additional soil about the plants. A change of seed is the best anti- 

 dote for disease. Four barrels are sufficient to plant one acre in drills. 



EARLY VARIETIES. 

 NOFOton Beauty. A productive first early variety. The tubers 

 are almost round, the eyes shallow and the skin flaked with 

 crimson. The cooking quahties are unsurpassed, 



Bbl., 6.00; bush., 2.50; pk., .75 



Bovee. One of the best very early sorts, maturing before the 

 Early Rose and much more productive than that favorite sort. 

 The plants are compact and admit of close planting. The 

 tubers are smooth, pinkish in color, and of uniform medium 

 size. A most desirable early sort, 



Bbl., 4.50; bu.sh., 2.00; pk., .60 



Irish Cobbler. A fine extra early sort, producing plump, hand- 

 some tubers of good size and excellent quality. The tubers 

 are a beautiful creamy white with strong well-developed eyes 

 slightly indented. A popular variety, 



Bbl., 4..50; bu,sh., 2.00; pk., .60 



Early Rose- The popular standard early variety. Skin red and 

 whit€, uniform in size and very productive, 



Bbl., 4.50; bush., 2.00; pk., .60 



Early Norther. This standard early variety originated in 

 Aroostook County, Maine. It is a seedling from the Early 

 Rose, which it closely resembles in shape and color, but is still 

 earlier and very much more prolific. It has strong, \-igorous 

 habits of growth, and is of fine eating quality, cooking dry 

 and mealy, whether baked or boiled. It is highly esteemed 

 by large growers for the early market trade, 



Bbl. 4.50; bush., 2.00; pk., .60 



New Queen. A grand potato, resembUng Beauty of Hebron in 

 color, size, and shape, but much earlier and more prohfic, 

 with few small tubers. The quahty is excellent, the flesh being 

 pure white and of the dry, mealy texture so much desired in 

 a table potato Bbl, 4.50; bush., 2.00; pk., .60 



Beauty of Hebron. An early and popular variety extensively 

 grown for winter use. The tubers are smooth, white slightly 

 tinged with pink, and of superb flavor, 



Bbl., 4.50; bush., 2.00; pk., .60 



MAIN CROP AND LATE VARIETIES. 



Green Mountain. This is unsurpassed for main crop. The 

 tubers are white, of fiat oval .shape, smooth, handsome, and of 

 excellent quality. It is a hea\"v- cropper, small tubers being 

 seldom present Bbl., 4.50; bush., 2.00; pk., .60 



Carmen III. One of the be.st late varieties, enoi-mously prolific, 

 skin and flesh pure white . . . Bbl., 4.50; bush., 2.00: pk., .60 



Carmen I. An iutennediate variety, yieldius: a heavy crop of 

 smooth white tubers of medium size and superior qualitv. 

 Excellent keeper Bbl., 4.50 ; bush., 2.00 : pk., .60 



Lady Finger. A i)opular baking varietv Ln Xew England. 



bush., 3.00; Pk., 1.00 



SWEET POTATOES. 



Rooted shps ready in May. The young plants should be set 

 in May in hills about 4 feet apart and 5 inches above the ground 

 level. A Ught soil and sunny location is preferable. 



Yellow Nansemond. Early; productive; the best for general 

 culture per 100, .75; by mail, .90 



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