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kinds, including “King of the Earlies,” “ Early Rose,” “ Climax,” “ Early 
Moliawk,” “ Peerless,” etc., and pronounces it “ ahead of all others.” 
George W. Campbell of Ohio, the originator of the Delaware grape, calls it 
“ handsomer in color and shape than the Early Rose, and in quality fully 
equal.” These things having been said of the White Rose, in such a sea¬ 
son as the past, by such authority, in addition to what I have known of it. 
the last two years, I readily dismiss all further solicitude about the fate of 
an enterprise in which I acknowledge I have had some pride. 
The King of the Earlies. —This is the famous potato that in the spring of 
1869 sold for $100 per pound, or $50 for a smgle tuber. It is a seedling of 
the Garnet-Chili, and is the very earliest of productive habits of any vari¬ 
ety known; but after all its early prestige and costly history, it is question¬ 
able whether it will supersede to any great extent outside of city market 
gardens its kindred worthy, the Early Rose. It is a poor seeder, having 
but few eyes, a particular in which the Rose excels. The rate of repro¬ 
duction, however, is respectable as may be seen from my own experience 
with it. In 1869, from two eyes I got about sixteen pounds from which I 
grew nine bushels the past season. 
The Early Rose. —This is also a seedling from the Garnet-Cliili and is too 
generally known to demand a word from me. But as an early potato it has 
great and unusual merits; among them, long keeping, even up to the new 
crop, an inveterate resistance to demoralizing influences after being stored, 
such as light, heat and continued sprouting. The only thing that can be 
said against it, is a little proneness to rot when planted late, and its foliage 
being rather a favorite with the Colorado potato bug. 
The Peerless. —This, as the two-last, is a seedling of the Garnet Chili, and 
from the same propagator, Mr. Breesee. It is a late grower, good yielder, 
and good table quality. It has a large amount of foliage, which is partic¬ 
ularly relished by the potato-beetle; the tubers grow very large—too large 
on rich soil to be grown many years without becoming hollow. The tubers 
of this variety are monsters in size. One of them I have on exhibition of 
this years’ growth, which weighed when dug four pounds five ounces, and 
developed, after one main bulb of two or more pounds weight, nine dis¬ 
tinct additions, making it look like anything but a “ form of beauty.” 
The Prolific is also a seedling of the Garnet Chili, by Breesee. It is a 
strong, good yielder, and well shaped potato, and lias met with great favor 
in some parts of the east. 
The Climax is a seedling of D. S. Iieffron, from the early Goodrich. This 
variety is a strong grower, good yielder, and from its results this season in 
connection with the drouth, I am inclined to allow it rather renewed confi¬ 
dence among the earlier kinds. 
The Excelsior is Mr. G regory’s favorite; a long keeper and extra table 
potato. 
The Willard is Mr. Gregory’s pet seedling, from the early Goodrich. It 
