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Title: Celebrated O. K. seeds
Identifier: celebratedokseed1894jaev (find matches)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: J. A. Everitt (Firm); Everitt, J. A; J. A. Everitt & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis
Publisher: Indianapolis, I. N. : J. A. Everitt
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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EVERITTS EARLY 6-WEEKS POTATO. PlaiJtino %^ ONE OFOUB. CUSTOMERS. peRSON To EauAL These Results WITH ANY OTHER Potato in the
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POTATOES EvERiTT's Choice Seed are Famous Wherever Known. They are the Leaders. If there is one department of our business in â which we excel more par- ticularly than another it is the Seed Potato Department. We hare always inade great specialties of Seed Potatoes. Although we do not introduce one-fourth as many varieties as do some other seedsmen, yet when we send out a new variet;.' it goes out toiind a u-elcome and a home with every grouer. Our coniervat-lve course has gained for our house the confi- dence of potato raisers and as a consequence our trade is not excelled in this line by any house in the country. Our customers will j>lease turn to pages 76 and 77 for ournewoiferings of this year. These are the only potatoes we have found worthy of introduction in The three years passed since we placed our now famous Early Six "Weeks 3rarket Potato on the market, al- though we are continually investigating and testing highly praised new sorts. POTATO EYES OR WHOLE POTATOES. Bn^^^ Within the past three years many seedsmen have adopted the plan of sending potato'eyes by m"aii and devote considerable space to explaining the beauties and" adva'ntages of the potato eye scheme. It is a good scheme to talk on and will influence some orders from the in- experienced, but it is all wrong. 'Within one week after the poiatoes are cut th y have lost a great share of their vitality and if obtained early in the season before planting time has arrived the chances are you have lost one-half of them entirely and the balance will make only a feeble growth. We send by mail medium size, sound, whole tixbers. One pound of these wiU contain from 5 to 8 potatoes and from 50 to 80 eyes. One pound of potato eyes wiU comprise froni 25 to 33 eyes, and they will not ⢠have much flesh at this rate. Kote the difference; besides, by our im- proved method of preparing seed and planting we make one whole potato equal 3 as usually handled, and that without any extra labor or delay in planting. By aid of a hot bed we can make 1 lb. equal 20 lbs. as ordinarily STILL UNEQUALED. The Woiiderful Six-Weeks Market Potato. WitJiotit exception the earliest Potato in existence and the most valuable for inarhet gardeners, tntcTeers r>nd all early JilarJeet pur- poses. ^ perfect table po- tato and a wondeiful yielder. Introduced by us in 1890. Ready for market in SIX WEEKS. Matures in 73 days. Two weeks ahead of any other variety and has yielded at the rate of over 600 bushels per acre. Again Leads for'1894. others may eqnal it in size, quality or productive- ness, but in earliness EV- EKITT'S SIX-WEEKS' MARKET IS UNAP- PROACHED. Market gardeners and all others who grow potatoes, what could you afford, to give forpotatoes that will produce I fine, large, beautiful tubers six weeks from planting, which is two or more weeks ahead of any other kind, if you knewthey would positively pro- duce, such results ? Well, we will sav to all who are fortunate enough to receiie this catalogue, that ETERITT'S EARLY SIX-WEEKS'BIAR- KET vnll do all th is. It is worthits weight in gold for a start o f seed to many market gardeners, as with it they can get the fancy prices before other kinds come in market. We offer for your consideration the accompanying report from the originator, who has been a potato grower all his life, and is now 54 years old, and from others whose full addresses are on file in our office. Afi'er reading these reports you can no longer doubt that this is a most remarkable variety. This new potato originated in Ohio and we pur- chased of the originator the entire stock and right to introduce it. The originator says: They have created so much excitement in my neigh- borhood that I could sell my whole crop to my neighbors at a fancy price." Grows medium to large size, oblong to round shape, light, flesh-colored skin; white flesh ; very smooth shape; eyes even with the surface ; Jrubers grow close together in the hill. The potatoes begin to form when the vines are only four to five inches high. The top and tubers grow rapidly, and at 6 weeks from planting are a fine marketable size, and reach maturity in 73 days. As a table potato they are not excelled ; even for late spring they keep sound and solid. They grow so rapidly and mature so ear:y that the potato bugs have no chance at all, making their crop, if planted early, before the young bugs become numerous; while Jor yield they are wonderful, considering their extreme earliness. In ISSS the yield was at the rate of 420 bushels per acre; in 1S89 they yielded at the rate of over 380 bushels per acre without manure; while in 1891 they yielded at the rate of over 600 bushels per acre. The originator says about this potato: *' Potatoes have been my favorite crop since I was a boy and I always took great pleasure in seeing what good crops and large yields I cotild get, but never did I see a nicer potato than this. I have raised a great many kinds, sent for the eariifst In the catalogues, and have raised them from seed, and got some very good ones, but none that csme up to my ideal of a perfect potato until I originated this. I have now discarded all others, and raise this for early and main crop, for market andhoynevse. This year has planted. This last process is rather tedious and only practicable where the i fully convinced me that I have at last produced the bcsi early potato in cuUi- partv can give them careful attention. With potato eyes neither of these ration. I think it combines more good qualities than any other variety in multiplying processes can be used. ' the world. I have given it a fair trial, and it has provea itself superior to (70)

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