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| Keywords: Everything for the garden (16390874245).jpg From PETER MEMDEIRSOM <br> CO 09 MEW YOU <br> 55 <br> H en s d e e l1 seed potatoes <br> NORTHERN <br> GROWN <br> HENDERSON'S BOVEE POTATO <br> THE POPULAR EXTRA EARLY <br> Delicious New Potatoes Can Be Produced Earlier <br> With BOVEE Than Any Other <br> It is not only early but produces its crop in great abundance and <br> yields a very large percentage of perfectly formed tubers The cul- <br> tivator can be used to better advantage on a crop of Bovee than any <br> other sort owing to the short and compact growth of the vines and <br> its habit of setting the entire crop close in the hill <br> Bovee perhaps more than any other sort delights in a rich soil <br> and adverse conditions will not produce the best results; but given <br> the proper soil conditions frequent and thorough cultivation and <br> fairly good climatic conditions it will yield an abundance of medium <br> sized Potatoes of perfect shape and remarkably good quality See cut <br> on opposite page Price 80c peck 2 75 bushel 5 50 barrel of 165 <br> pounds net weight By express or freight at purchaser's expense <br> The Bovee is the best early Potato I ever raised It is not only early but pro- <br> duces a large crop and is a good winter keeper <br> PETER F O'REILLY Long Branch N J <br> For every pound of Bovee Potato seed I purchased from you last year I raised <br> sixty-seven pounds of fine Potatoes WM BOUGHTON Norlons Ore <br> Henderson's EARLY PURITAN Potato <br> A valuable early sort which produces a heavy crop of roundish- <br> oval tubers of good average size Both flesh and skin are white <br> The plant is strong and resists disease well The flesh is of fine <br> texture and when cooked is dry floury and full-flavored Price <br> 75c peck 2 50 bushel 5 00 barrel of 165 pounds net weight By <br> express or freight at purchaser's expense <br> We have been eating Early Puritan Potatoes since July 1st They are the <br> wonder of the neighborhood Prof J H CLARK Franklin Falls N H <br> IKISH COBBLER POTATO <br> A fine early variety producing large handsome tubers uniform in <br> shape and size <br> The flesh is white and of excellent quality; the skin verylight brown <br> with whitish netting It is a heavy cropper See cut Price 75c <br> peck 2 50 bushel 5 00 barrel of 165 pounds net weight By <br> express or freight at purchaser's expense <br> On April 21st I planted J bushel of Irish Cobbler Potatoes and in spite of a <br> late season we had frost here on June 9th we had good Potatoes the last week in June <br> The folks said they were too big for new Potatoes They are certainly the finest <br> early Potato I have seen in my experience of 37 years in gardening <br> S RIKER Gardener to Mr F H Spaldings <br> Ellensbrook Farm Southbury Conn <br> Improved GREEN MOUNTAIN Potato <br> A reliable medium late Potato which is rapidly increasing in <br> popularity � in fact in some sections it has superseded all other <br> main crop varieties It seems to thrive in all soils and in all <br> localities making heavy healthy vines and yielding big crops of <br> large smooth white skinned tubers of handsome flattish oval form <br> It cooks white dry and mealy and has a desirable flavor exclusively <br> its own It keeps well and is not liable to scab or decay See cut <br> Price 75c peck 2 50 bushel 4 75 barrel of 165 pounds net weight <br> By express or freight at purchaser's expense <br> We got over five bushels of fine Potatoes from one peck of your Green Mountain <br> Potato Seed last season W J MICKLETHWAITE <br> Yukon West Fla <br> The Green Mountain Potatoes I bought from you two years ago gave far belter <br> results than Potatoes purchased from local dealers <br> THOMAS F GARRISON Fairton N J <br> You are so far away from Wyoming that it costs high to ship large quantities <br> of Potatoes from New York but I can honestly say I never got as good seed <br> anywhere else JOHN HORRIE Hat Creek Wyo <br> SIK WALTEK RALEIGH POTATO <br> A FINE MAIN CROP POTATO <br> AN EXCELLENT KEEPER <br> Sir Walter Raleigh is one of the best varieties for a main crop <br> and is admirably adapted to general cultivation The vines are of <br> average size but so vigorous that they stand erect long enough to <br> allow necessary cultivation It produces an extremely large crop of <br> round slightly flattened tubers smooth white skinned and very <br> attractive in appearance <br> Its remarkably good quality is greatly improved when properly <br> stored in a cool dry cellar When cooked it breaks up thoroughly <br> presenting a flaky snowy appearance at once appetizing and in- <br> dicative of its superior flavor See cut on opposite page Price <br> 75c peck 2 50 bushel 5 00 barrel of 165 pounds net weight <br> By express or freight at purchaser's expense <br> I have excellent results from my 'Sir Waller Raleigh ' Season was very bad <br> and Potatoes grew small all over the country except mine They grew large and I <br> am selling as I dig them for 1 00 per bushel while ordinary Potatoes are selling <br> for from 55c to 70c I used neither manure nor phosphate � simply planted on <br> sod � broken autumn previous Rev W L RILEY D D Kane Pa <br> The Sir Walter Raleigh Potatoes turned out well We raised a good four and <br> a half bushels from a peck It is a good eating Potato and there are not many small <br> ones in a hill L MAYER Roxbury Sta Conn <br> Our new pamphlet Garden Culture of Root Crops giving full instructions for growing Potatoes s edlo 43874847 149634 78295 Page 55 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874847 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1915 Garden Stories Books Bulbs Plants Catalogs Equipment and supplies Flowers Gardening Lawn mowers Seeds U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 43874847 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874847 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 Check categories 2015 August 25 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16390874245 2015-08-25 02 51 58 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1915 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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