HISTOEY 



OF THE 



A NATIVE OF THE NORTHERN LIMITS 01 TUB TEMPERATE ZONE. 



WM. R. PRINCE, Nurseries, Flushing, New-York, has just published 

 in pamphlet form, a complete history of this great Chinese esculent, which fur- 

 nishes the most nutritious food for over 350 millions of people who never eat 

 meat. There are more than Fifty varieties, comprising every form — round 

 ovate, oval, oblong and very long ; and they are of different colors — snow white 

 pale straw, yellow and pink tinge. It yields continual annual crops, without 

 re-planting. It is destined to entirely supersede the Potato in our Northern, 

 Eastern and Western States, and in all other Northern countries of the earth. 

 The following constitutes its principal claims to universal adoption : 



1st. Its great hardihood, and the capacity of withstanding the cold of the 

 severest winters, in the open ground. 



2d. Its facility and simplicity of culture, its adaption to all soils, and espe- 

 cially to such as have hitherto been deemed barren and valueless. 



3d. Its productiveness and cheapness, which far exceed the Potato, the crop 

 being GOO to 800 bushels to the acre. 



4th. Its nutritious and farinacious qualities, comprising all the essential 

 constituents of an esculent of the highest alimentary character. Its combination 

 of nitrogen, which gives to it a most distinctive character, equivalent to meat 

 and wheat combined, and thus rendering the use of meat, as food, entirely un- 

 necessary. 



5th. Its unexceptional excellence of flavor, and freedom from all insipid 

 taste. 



6th. Its long keeping and freedom from all rot or decay, in the ground or 

 out of it, and its retention of its excellence for more than a year. 



7th. It is a purifying and highly nutritious constitutional food, capable of 

 developing the muscular power of man to its fullest capacity. 



8th. The root being perfectly hardy, the crop, when so desired, may be 

 allowed to remain during the entire Winter, in the open ground. 



PAMPHLET, 15 Cents. 



Prince's Primary Treatise on all Diseases, with a List of all 

 Remedials. Price, 30 Cents. 



