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There are few vegetables which more enjoy good cultivation than the Potato. If you will trench your ground 

 early in winter as deep as it will admit of, and intermix the manure, and plant in March, you will be amply 

 rewarded for your labour in quality and quantity. The planting, however, may be delayed : we have had large 

 crops from Potatoes planted in May. Rqund poTATOES per peck per 



of 14 lbs. bush. 



Early Waterloo, a first-rate variety for frames, the top being very dwarf; the tuber is handsome, s. d. s. d. 



of fine quality, and a free cropper 3 6... 12 6 



Giant King, the earliest round potato known, an immense cropper, and remarkable for its 



freedom from the bligliting influences of the potato disease 3 6. ..12 o 



Dickson's Premier, a handsome first early, excellent flavour, cooks mealy, and a fine variety 



for early Shows 5 o 



Covent Garden Prolific, a first-class potato, an extremely heavy cropper, fine flavoured, with 



a dwarf compact top 4 0...14 o 



Shaw Improved, a very productive early variety 3 0...10 6 



Red Emperor, this is a most distinct second early variety, being marked all over with white 

 spots ; it is a great cropper, of high class quality, and should be universally cultivated 



for main crop : handsome variety for exhibitions 5 0...18 o 



Daintree's Early Seedling, a very excellent second early Regent 2 6... 9 o 



The True Hour Ball, a very heavy cropper, and a first-class variety 3 0...10 6 



Paterson's Victoria, a very heavy cropper, and of excellent quality on light soil 2 6... 9 o 



Paterson's Early Scotch Blue ; this variety is one of Paterson's very best, skin bright purple, flesh 

 very white, of excellent quality, tubers pebbly-shaped and handsome, a valuable 



sort for small gardens 



Red-skinned Flour Ball, a handsome late Potato, boils white and floury, and takes rank as a first 

 class variety for main crop 



Rintoul's New Early White Don. We insert this Potato in our catalogue on the recommendation 



of Mr. Fenn, who describes it as "first-class" 



Turner's Union. Mr. Fenn speaks of this Potato in the highest terms 



Kidney Potatoes. 



Early Ash-leaf, trite, the best for forcing 



„ Albion Ashleaf, the finest of the first kidney potatoes which come to the London Market... 

 ,, Harry, a first class variety, in the way of Albion Ash-leaf, a very heavy cropper, and earlier 



than Myatt's 



„ Myatt's Covent Garden Prolific Ash- leaf, first-class variety, very handsome, an abun- 

 dant cropper, and a favourite in Covent Garden Market 



,, Gloucestershire Kidney \ First-class Potatoes, but resembling each other so ( 



„ Rivers' Royal Ash-leaf > closely that it has been asserted that the best autho- < 



„ Veitch's Improved Ash-leaf j rities fail to distinguish the one from the other. { 



Beaconsfield, a second early variety, very handsome and a great cropper ; this potato received a 



first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society 



King of Potatoes, second early, a very handsome first-rate variety, flesh pale yellow 



Webb's President, second early, flesh white, and boils mealy ; the haulms being short, this is a 



Jersey Blue, very white flesh, mealy, rich flavour, and handsome 



England's Fair Beauty, an excellent flavoured variety, very handsome, white and floury 



The new Ash- top Fluke, a hybrid between the Ash-leaf and Fluke ; a good second early, mealy, 



Wheeler's Milky White, a first-class second early as regards crop and flavour 



Almond's Yorkshire Hero. Mr. Fenn of Woodstock says of this variety : *' it is the best garden 

 Potato in cultivation, and stands at the top ring of the ladder of the Lapstone section," and 

 adds, " it assisted me to gain an extra prize for tubers at the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 show at Bury St. Edmunds, also to gain a silver Banksian medal, a gold Banksian medal, a 

 special certificate, and a first-class certificate at South Kensington." With such a character 

 from such an eminent source, we feel that any remark of our own would be unnecessary. We 



would simply add it is the longest-keeping Potato known 



Taylor's Yorkshire Hybrid ; this variety is the result of grafting ; it is of great excellence, a first- 

 rate keeper, ripens rather late, and has had the highest encomium paid to it by the Rev. 



W. F. Radclyffe. We therefore confidently recommend it per lb. 1 o.. 



Cottager's Red, first season offered, and the entire stock is in our hands ; it is late, an enormous 

 cropper, producing very large smooth tubers ; a fine eating variety, and a good exhibition 

 sort ; for a main crop there is no better potato for cottagers per lb. 1 o.. 



New American Potatoes. 

 Early Goodrich, one of the lest Americaji early varieties, resembling some of our Regent types, hit with 



shorter haulm, a very heavy cropper per peck 



,, Calico ; this name was given on account of its peculiar white flesh ; the sk-in is purple, the tubers 



oblong-oz'al, a good cropper per lb. 



,, Rose, an extremely heavy cropper per peck 4/-, per bush. 



Callao, takes ra?ik with the very best of the American importations, flesh white, skin pinkish, and smooth ; 



a very heavy cropper per lb. 



Bresee's Peerless, a large round white variety, an exceedingly heavy cropper, and considered one of the best 



of the last year s importations per gal. 4/-, per peck 



Gleason's Late, very handsome, uniform size, flatfish round, white skin with bright red bands, a valuable 



Exhibition variety. We believe ours is the only true stock of this sort per lb. 



Any of the other American Potatoes can be supplied by us at advertised prices. 



New Scotch Field Potato. 

 Paterson's Bovinia, or Cattle-feeder Potato, ought to have been called Paterson's Giant ; a medium 

 sized tuber measures 8 inches by 3 inches, but has been grown very much larger, producing 20 tons, 



and with extra culture, 40 tons per acre per peck, 2/6, per bush. 



per peck 



Jerusalem Artichokes. of 14 lbs. 



Jerusalem, properly cooked, an exceedingly nice vegetable 2 6. 



Grayson's Covent Garden Giant Asparagus. 



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