JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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_ V ARIETIES OF POTATOES. 
JKS 3 ’ Will my customers please take notice that I cannot begin in the spring to forward potatoes until all 
danger from frost is passed, and that each order must then take its turn. Customers in the South should order 
their potatoes in the fall, before the middle or latter part of November, as after that there is always more or less 
danger from frost.(For Price List of Potatoes see page 26.) 
EARLY ROSE. 
EARLY ROSE. My seed stock was procured directly 
from the original growers and is warranted true to name. 
EXCELSIOR POTATO. (See engraving this page.) 
The varieties are few and far between that combine so many 
good qualities for all purposes for which this potato is raised 
as the “Excelsior.” Its remarkable excellence as a table po¬ 
tato, its valuable characteristic of retaining its superior cooking 
qualities the year round, (a somewhat remarkable feature, 
obviating in a great measure the necessity of having early 
potatoes, when old ones of this kind are better than early ones 
of most other kinds,) make it among the most desirable of all 
the varieties that are now before the public. 
Description. The Excelsior is a white skinned potato, of 
medium size, cooking white, and very mealy ; foray nearly 
round ; eyes prominent; skin thin and smooth. It will bear 
very light seeding , a late variety. The vines though short are 
very stalky, almost bushy. 
I append testimonials from farmers in different parts of the 
United States who have tested this potato. 
“I think the Excelsior potato is entirely ahead of anything that I 
have tried.” Jonathan Haworth. 
Windfall, Feb. 14, 1874.. 
“ The potatoes I received of you did remarkably well considering the 
season. From the peck of Excelsior and Peerless I raised about twelve 
bushels of each, and might have done a great deal better if it had not 
been for the moles and wet weather.” Thank Littin. 
Mt. Erie, Wayne Co., Illinois, March 18, 1874. 
“ From one pound Excelsior, I got2C0 lbs.” J. L. Perkins. 
Little Sioux, loioa, Feb. 9, 1871. 
“From one pound of Excelsior potatoes I had from you I raised two 
bushels of handsome potatoes,” Henry Baker. 
Lincoln, N. H., April 25, 1871. 
“As a table potato, I think the Early Rose is not to be compared to 
the Excelsior. I raised nine and one-half bushels from four pounds, 
and should have had nearly as many more had the season been favorable 
and the ‘ bugs ’ stayed in Colorado.” J. I. Salter. 
St. Cloud, Minn-, Feb. 12, 1871. 
“I got one pound of Excelsior potatoes of you last spring, and raised 
about two bushels, and am well satisfied with the quality and yield.” 
Attica, Ohio, March 20, 1870. E. B. Farmer. 
“ There is no potato which combines so many good qualities as the 
Excelsior.” J Nelson Jacobs. 
Worcester , Mass., Nov. 9, 1870. 
“ The Excelsior potato I received of you last spring yielded over one 
bushel of splendid potatoes. They are excellent table potatoes and good 
keepers.” A. PIoffman. 
Plymouth, Ohio, March 17, 1870. 
“I have sold about 800 bushels Excelsiors for eating. They are 
excellent both boiled and baked, and give better satisfactioia to the 
consumer than any potato I ever grew.” 
Georgia Plain, Vt., Dec. 20, 1870. C. A. Hotchkiss. 
“The Excelsior potatoes purchased of you last spring arc the best 
potato I ever ate. I raised one bushel from one pound. I am well 
pleased with them.” John W. B. Youtsey. 
Troy, Ohio, Jan, 29, 1870. 
“ The Excelsior potatoes received from you last year yielded remarka¬ 
bly well, and I regard them the best potato I have ever raised, not even 
excepting the Early Rose.” Albert Watson. 
Warren, Ohio, March 1, 1870. 
“ The pound of Excelsior potatoes purchased of you last spring proved 
splendid. My yield is 90 lbs. They are superior to all the new varieties 
that I have bought, except the Early Rose. I think the Excelsior and 
Rose ought to satisfy the most fastidious. J. C. McKenzie. 
Woodstock, Sept. 27, 1869. 
“The one pound of Excelsior potatoes that you sent me last spring 
were planted on the 80th of April, and from them I dug this day five 
and a half bushels of as nice potatoes as need be.” 
La Prairie Centre, III., Oct. 6, 1869. C. S. Vincent. 
“ The pound of Excelsiors yielded two bushels and a half; quality 
excellent.” A. Ernsberger. 
Defiance, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1869. 
“ I received of you last spring an Excelsior potato that weighed one- 
third of a pound, which I planted, and dug this fall 82 lbs. of iirst class 
potatoes.” Edney Smith. 
Waterloo, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1869. 
EXTRA EARLY VERMONT POTATO. Seven to ten 
days earlier than the celebraied Early Rose. A seedling raised 
in 1866, doubtless a cross between "the well known Jackson 
White and the Garnet Chili. The habit,, growth and general 
appearance of this new seedling are much like those of the 
Early Rose. Vines of medium height, somewhat -spreading, 
the tubers growing very compactly in the hill. For five years 
they have grown side by side with the Early Rose, both under 
the same treatment, and have proved seven to ten days earlier 
than that favorite sort; they are more productive, fully equal 
if not superior to it in quality, flesh very white, dry and floury, 
an excellent keeper, and is every way a most promising variety. 
Tested on my own grounds the past season, it proved to be a 
week ahead of the Early Rose. For prices see page 26. 
From Editor of American Agriculturist . 
“ I made two plantings of thoEaily Vermont side by side with the 
