24 dreer's garden calendar. 



Goodrich's Seedling Potatoes- 



I have the pleasure of offering, this season, the last and best of these 

 valuable new varieties, the crowning work of the long and useful life 

 of the late Rev. Chauncey E. Goodrich, chaplain to the State Lunatic 

 Asylum at Utica, New York, who, during a course of experiments ex- 

 tending through 15 years, raised and tested over 16,000 seedlings. 

 The kinds now presented, are very free growers, and require ample 

 space and generous culture. 



Early Goodrich. A seedling of the Cuzco, very early, healthy, 

 enormously productive, and of the finest table quality. Long, smooth 

 eyes on the surface, flesh and skin white. The best of all Mr. Goodrich's 

 productions ; although put out for the first time last spring it has already 

 attained a high reputation, and of all who have grown it, "none name 

 it but to praise." Price $5 per Bushel. $1.50 per peck. 



Garnet Chili. Round to longish, large, light red, smooth, flesh 

 white; matures September 1st to 15th, yield large, keeps well; this 

 year, planted very early, near Philadelphia, it matured about June 

 15th. of good size and quality, resembling the Bermuda. Handsome 

 and good. ,$2.50 per Bushel. 



Cuzco, Large, long, white skin and flesh, deep eyes. Matures 

 about September 15th. Yield very large, 300 to 400 bushels per acre. 

 Keeps well. Very profitable for market and stock. $2.50 per bushel. 



I also offer the White Sprout, a white skinned and white fleshed 

 potato, very early, and popular in the Philadelphia market. It is 

 largely grown in New Jersey, and highly esteemed there, as a profit- 

 able market variety. $3 per bushel. 



CULTIVATION. 



Select strong sod ground, (clover preferred) or a strong dry loam ; 

 manure well and plow and subsoil late in the fall — a sod ploughed in 

 spring is not favorable to early potatoes. 



In Spring again plow, sub soil, harrow, roll and mark out, 3 ft each 

 way, as for corn. Use only good sound tubers of large size and 

 plant them whole, six inches deep, dropping a good handful of wood 

 ashes, slaked lime, plaster and bone dust or superphosphates, with a 

 little salt, on each potato. Tan bark and green sand marl are also 

 good. By no means use fresh stable manure ; it increases the crop but 

 is apt to engender disease. Whole potatoes are to be preferred to 

 cut ones. Mr. Goodrich says, "In the use of a single moderate sized 

 uncut tuber for seed I have often grown 15 pounds to the hill." 



Cultivate often, as shallow and flat as possible, and keep the ground 

 entirely clear of weeds during the whole season. Never hill up the crop ; 

 it causes a large growth of small potatoes. Shallow planting has the 

 same effect. Gather in dry weather and dry the potatoes well, under 

 cover, before storing, which should be done in a cool, airy, rather dark 

 cellar or in pits in the open ground, or heavily banked up with earth. 



J^gp In storing use one pint of freshly slaked lime, in powder, per 

 bushel of potatoes. It will effectually check any tendency to rot. 



