Identifier: farquharscatalog19rjfa_5 (find matches)
Title: Farquhar's catalogue : spring 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: R. & J. Farquhar Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Flowers Seeds Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Aquatic plants Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Trees Massachusetts Boston Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : R. & J. Farquhar
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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e sown thinly. Pods long, slightly curved, well filled• with large peas of most delicious flavor. Its beauty, productiveness, and fine quality combined make it exceedinglypopular. Height, 2l/2 ft.; seed dark green, wrinkled. Pint, .15; qt., .25; peck, #1.50; bush., $5.00.Yorkshire Hero. A hardy, productive Pea about 20 inches high. Peas of good quality, remaining a long time incondition for use. Pint, .15; qt., .25; peck, #1.50; bush., $5.00./ Shropshire Hero. Vines average 20 to 30 inches long, bearing a great abundance of large, handsome pods wellJ filled with Peas of superior flavor. Pint, .15; qt., .25; peck, $1.50; bush., $5.00. • White Marrowfat. An old sort; very hardy. Pint, .15; qt., .25; peck, $1.25; bush., #4.00.VBlack-Eyed Marrowfat. Very popular and hardy; 3 ft. Pint, .15; qt., .25; peck, $1.25 ; bush., #4.00.f Large packets of all varieties, 10 cts. each postpaid. 22 R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.S SEED CATALOGUE. POTATOES. PRICES SUBJECT TO VARIATIONS OF THE MARKET.
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Early Rose. A good, sandy loam pro-duces the best potatoes, butthey can be grown on allkinds of soil. New or pas-ture land, with the turffreshly turned, produces thefinest crop. Make furrowsof good depth, three feetapart. Scatter a liberaldressing of phosphate or de-cayed stable manure alongthe drill, and set the seedabout ten inches apart in therows. Cover with about twoinches of soil, and begin tocultivate when the plants arewell up. At each successivehoeing, bring additional soilabout the plants. A changeof seed is the best antidotefor disease. Four barrelsare sufficient to plant one acrein drills. EARLY. Early Rose. The standard variety for earliness, productiveness, and good quality Beauty of Hebron. Early potato of excellent quality and handsome appearance. It can safely be classified with the heaviest yielders. Its keeping qualities for an early kind are unexcelled.Bovee. It is of the Early Hebron type. Vine growth dwarf and stocky. Potatoes have a pink skin, are smooth, handso

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