Early Potatoes For Market Ready Ahead Of Neighbors
A Connecticut correspondent seeks potato varieties to beat the Early Rose. The author endorses Early Rose or Early Vermont Beauty of Hebron and Clark’s No. 1 for early yields, and details methods to force growth via hot beds, frames, or pre-sprouted seed potatoes. Techniques cover manure depth, soil layering, and careful transplanting to produce ripe tubers ten days to two weeks earlier than open-ground planting.
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Connecticut
Elies
Vermont
Hebron
Selecting and sowing seed in the seed trade era
Seedsmen pursue the most attractive catalog designs while debated color accuracy, honesty, and trustworthiness. The piece discusses seed quality, isolation for pure seed, and examples like Emperor William early dwarf tower, Giant White Tripoli onion, American Wonder pea, Dan Rourke, and Ivory Wax pod bean, noting careful cultivation and issues from weather and carelessness.
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Best Fertilizers for Orchards and Fruit Trees in Essex
Report from Westford correspondent N. E. Palmer on orchard and grape vine fertilization. Notes on bone meal potash wood ashes stable manure and nitrogenous fertilizers. Suggests careful observation and local soil testing. warns against excessive bone and potash use.
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