Title: Annual catalogue of celebrated seeds
Identifier: annualcatalogueo1896jaev (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: J. A. Everitt (Firm); Everitt, J. A; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis; Vegetables; Flowers; Grasses; Commercial catalogs
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : 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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Ar8 ii&mciis Everitt's Choice Seed POTATOES ^m^u^m. ^"flll I Tfl£*4~il1?l1pfl 'Ftoe Wonderful Sis:-Weeks Market Potato. Without exception the 4^ LI fit w 14&v| UCIIVU earliest potato ias existence and the most valuable tor market gar- deners, truckers and all early Market purposes. A perfect taole potato and a wonderful yielder; IXTK©DU€ED BY US IN 1890. Ready for Market in SIX WEEKS. Matures In 72 days, two weeks ahead of any other variety, and has yielded at the rate of over 600 bushels per acre. A«AIN LEADS FOR 1S95. Others May equal it in size, quality or productiveness, but In earliness EVERITT'S SIX- WEEKS MARKET IS USAPPEOACHEI). Market Gardeners and all others who grow potatoes, what could you afford to give for potatoes that will produce fine, large, beautiful tubers six weeks from planting, which is two or more weeks ahead of any other kind, if you knew., thev would positively produce such results? Well, we will say to all who are fortunate enough to receive thia catalogue that EVERETT'S EARLY SIX WEEKS MARKET will do all this. It is worth its weight in gold, for a start of seed to many market gardeners, as with it they can get the fancy prices before other kinds come in" market. We offer for 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 addresses are on file in our office. After reading these reports you can ri»v lunger doubt that this is a most remarkable variety. They have created so much excitement in his neighborhood, that ho could sell his whole crop to neighbors at a fancy price. Grows medium to large size, oblong to rouud shape, light, flesh- oolored skin; white flesh; very smooth shape; eyes even with the surface ; tubers grow close together in the hill. The potatoes begin to form when the vines are only 4 to 5 inches high. The top and tubers grow rapidly, and at 6 WEEKS FROM PLAXTIXG ARE A FIXE MARKETABLE SIZE, AXD REACH MATURITY IX 72 days. As a table potato they are not excelled; even for late spring they keep sound and solid. They grow so rapidly and mature m early that potato bugs have no chance at all, making their crop, if planted early, before the young bugs become numer- ous ; while for yield thev are wonderful, considering their extreme earliness.. The yields of three successive seasons on tbe

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