My Specialties: 



Chionanthus Virginica. 

 Magnolia tripetala. 

 Magnolia acuminata. 

 Calycanthus. 



Also a great variety of Tree and Shrub 

 Seeds in large or small quantities. Corres= 

 pondence solicited. 



J. H. H. BOYD, 



Cagle, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. 



The New Potato Culture 



Bu ELBERT S, CARMAN, 

 Editor of THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 



This book gives the results of the author's investigations and expeir- 

 ments during the past fifteen years. Its object will be to show all who raise 

 potatoes, whether for home use solely or for market as well, that the yield 

 may be increased threefold without a corresponding increase in the cost; to 

 show that the little garden patch, of a fortieth of an acre perhaps, may just as 

 well yield ten bushels as three bushels ; to induce farmers and gardeners to ex- 

 periment with fertilizers not only as to the kind, that is to say, the constit- 

 uents and their most effective proportions, but as to the most economical quan- 

 tity to use ; to experiment as to the most telling preparation oi the soil, the 

 depth to plant, the size of seed, the number or eyes, the distance apart. These 

 will be among the subjects considered, not in a theoretical way at all, but as 

 the outcome of fifteen years of experimentation earnestly made in the hope of 

 advancing our knowledge of this mighty industry. It is respectfully sub- 

 mitted that these experiments so long carried on at the Rural Grounds have, 

 directly and indirectly, thrown more light upon the various problems in- 

 volved in successful potato culture, than any other experiments which have 

 been carried on in America. Price, Cloth, 75 Cents ; Paper, 40 Cents 



THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 

 TIMES BUILDING, NEW YORK. 



