JAMES J. IE GBEGOBY & SON'S BE TAIL CATALOGUE. 
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POTATOES. 
EARLY SIX WEEKS. 
The Six Weeks is very evidently a seedling from the Ohio, 
which it very closely resembles in every wav, but is earlier, 
makes rather taller stalks, and appears to yield better on up¬ 
land than that fine variety. It is well described as growing 
medium to large size; oblong to round in shape; skin light- 
pink; flesh white; shape smooth; eyes near the surface; 
tubers grow close together in the hill. The potatoes grow so 
rapidly that, under favorable circumstances, they are as large 
as hens’ eggs, and therefore fit forfamilv use, in six weeks from 
time of planting, and mature in between ten and eleven weeks. 
We find it a good yielder, and though not so extraordinarily 
productive as some claim, still a remarkably good cropper for so 
early a sort. It revels in moist land. 
can supply them this season only in quantities of one 
bushel or less.^lg^u Here is what some parties say of them : — 
Ettore Tassanari, head gardener at the Danvers, Mass , Insane Asy¬ 
lum, writes: ‘‘To-day (June 29) we had the officers of the Essex County 
Agricultural Society at dinner with us. and on the table were a plate of 
Early Six Weeks potatoes, of good eating size, of this season’s growth. 
The visitors were all loud in their praise.” 
“ In six weeks from planting I have had them fit for table and as fine, 
solid, and mealy as ripe tubers. They are not troubled by the potato 
toeetle< John Wise, Athens Co., Ohio. 
. “I think they are the earliest potato in cultivation to-day. When the 
vines were about six inches high I examined them and found potatoes as 
large as partridge eggs, and in six weeks from planting were as large as. 
bens’ eggs. Will mature in 72 days. The yield was 38<> bushels per acre.” 
J. E. Shanks, Athens Co., Ohio. 
» “ Joujtiave got the best early and the earliest potato in existence. We 
bad the Early Six Weeks Market Potato large enough for the table in six 
weeks from planting. They out-yielded all other varieties.” 
August Broeker (Gardener), Allegan Co., Mich. 
- 4 = t ^Oper bushei would not buy my Early Six Weeks Market Potatoes 
if I could not replace them for less. They are the earliest of all, and a 
heavy yielder. I predict they will be universally grown bv market gar¬ 
deners for early, and those gardeners who get them first will reap hand¬ 
some profits. Jacob E. Stilson, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
“ Planted the Early Six Weeks Market Potato May 3. Thev grew fine 
and we had new potatoes cooked June 20. They are the earliest we ever 
saw. Daniel Donovan, Carroll Co., Tenn. 
Early Beauty of Elberon. 
We find this to be among the very earliest. It is of good 
size for marketing, with very few small ones, is of fine shape 
has white skin, white flesh, and eyes near the surface. It 
surpasses many of the early sorts as a cropper, and is of such 
excellent quality that some rank it as superior to the Beauty 
of Hebron. We consider it to be every way an excellent early 
sort. J 
j-mppD ufi bhrutv. 
The vines of the potato have that healthy, robust appearance 
that pleases the eye of the farmer. It is a first-rate cropper 
and the potatoes are of large size and of good market shape’ 
Skin smooth and white. As early as Beauty of Hebron. 
EARIvY 
This, in earliness, vigor of growth, and productiveness, 
compares well with Early Maine. Like that fine variety, it 
closely resembles Early Bose. The potatoes are of good size 
and of excellent quality. Excellent either for a general crop 
for market, or for use in the family. 
PSASl Of SAVOY. 
One of the earliest. A cross between Clark’s No. 1 and 
Early Vermont. It closely resembles in general appearance 
Early Rose, but is earlier and a better cropper. Planted April 
7, the vines began to die down July 16. Of seventy-seven 
varieties tested in the experimental grounds of Bural New- 
Yorker, this proved to be one of the two earliest, and a very 
heavy cropper. 
POLARIS. 
This new Vermont seedling we can highly recommend for 
earliness and quality. They are rather oblong in shape, with 
surface a little flattened, having few eyes, and those on the 
surface. Grain fine and flavor excellent. Though white¬ 
skinned, it is a chance sport from the Early Rose, not a seed¬ 
ling from it. 
WelHDgton Picrec, ^w Eiehmond, Wis., writes: “The Polaris Potato 
1 had from you proves to be very early, a great cropper, very smooth, 
large size, without a sign of rot, and of excellent quality.” 
• Mr. A H. Smith, of Waterbury: “ The Polaris I planted bv the 
side of State of Maine, Pearl of Savoy, and Beauty of Hebron. The Po- 
Jans was the earliest, yielded the best, and surpassed all in quality.” 
fi 'J' W Baker, o f Bureau Co., Ill., writes : “ I had many good potatoes 
that dul wed with me last season, such as Standard, Thorburn, Ohio, Early 
l earl, White Prize, and Everett, and some fine seedlings of mv own and 
others, but rank the Polaris as superior to them all.” 
THE DELAWARE. A Valuable New Potato. 
oui vustuLuns nau aiiueuer W J .xjlio cAucneui puuiMJ, ±or 
we are sure they will like it. The average form is shown in the 
engraving; it is medium early; in size it is large, being above 
the average / the skin and flesh are white ’ in yield it is a remarkable 
cropper, ivhile in quality it is first-rate, being dry and mealy. 
’. T11 ” w ^ : “ r have tried scores of new varie¬ 
ties ol potatoes, but find the Delaware to be the best ever introduced.” 
Writes Mr. H. O. McFadden, of Pittsburg: ‘‘Among the eight hun- 
?vonde? ne Er(fm mdv^wrf season 0®®), I must say your Delaware was a 
Bounds' of* rn?!-kP^im£^S nC6S see( M k°t sixty-one and one half 
t P°tatoes. I would recommend everybody who 
\\ ants a choice potato to send for the Delaware.” ^ ^ 
Writes P. Cadeau, of Washington Territory: “The one nound of DpIh 
ware potatoes were not planted* in the best Roil, but they Gelded one 
hundred and twenty pounds, all very nice and large.” 7 J 
J. R. Jester, Brown’s Canon, Col., writes: “ From three Bounds of vour 
hundred a “ d 
in the^snrin■ M ‘ Y v? f m£? ft? Americm \ Agriculturalist ,who tested them 
c^teflavorrarely ?ouMlr^SS. flUe ' gl ' ai ‘ lea ' a ' lU ol * deli ' 
Says Mr. Thomas Sawyer, an old farmer of Boxford Mass • “In all 
my life I never ate in the spring such nice potatoes as tSe Delaware? 
