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Richard Frotscher^s Almanac and Garden Ma7iual 



Extra Early Ver- 

 mont. Very similar 

 to the Early Eose, but 

 of a stronger growth ; 

 a little earlier, and the 

 tubers are more uni- 

 form and larger. It is 

 an exeelient table va- 

 riety. 



Snowflake. This 

 is a very early variety. 

 Tubers good medium _ _ _ 

 size 5 elongated, very ^^^^^^^M 

 uniform and quire pro 

 ductive. Eyes flat ouj 

 the body of the tuber, 

 but compressed on the 

 seed end. Skin white, 

 flesh very fine grained, 

 and when boiled snow- 

 white. 



B e a 11 1 y of He - 

 broil. I have tried 

 this variety very thor- 

 oughly, and have 

 found it all that it has 

 been represented. It 

 is earlier than the Ear- 

 ly Eose, which resem- 

 bles it very much, be- 

 ing a little lighter and 

 more russetted in col- 

 or. It is very produc- 

 tive and of excellent 

 table quality, more 

 mealy than the Early 

 Eose, 



Extra Early Vermont. 



THE SWEET POTATO. 



Convolvulus batatas. 



The Sweet Potato is next to corn the most important food 

 crop in the South. They are a wholesome and nutritious diet, 

 good for man and beast." Though cultivated to a limited extent 

 on the sandy lands of Kew Jersey and some of the middle States, 

 it thrives best on the light rich lands of the South, which bring 

 their red and golden fruits to greatest perfection under the benign 

 rays of a southern sun. It is a plant of a warm climate, a child 

 of the sun, much more nutritious than the Irish Potato on account 

 of the great amount of saccharine matter it contains, and no south- 

 ern table should be found without it from the first day of August 



