Magnum Bonum Potatoes
This wonderful new potato is remarkable for earliness, large size, freedom from disease, and immense productiveness. Will produce a good crop on poor ground, where other varieties would entirely fail. If planted on good ground, with manure, they will grow most too large for the table. Each stalk produces from four to six large tubers. They are nearly round, a little flattened, white skin; eyes very few, of a pinkish color and a little rough. Baked or boiled they are white as snow and very mealy. Yields less than one per cent of small potatoes. This variety must not be confounded with Sutton's Magnum Bonum, an English variety, and quite inferior to this.
Originally listed in: 1881 D.M. Ferry Catalog
This wonderful new potato is remarkable for earliness, large size, freedom from disease, and immense productiveness. Will produce a good crop on poor ground, where other varieties would entirely fail. If planted on good ground, with manure, they will grow most too large for the table. Each stalk produces from four to six large tubers. They are nearly round, a little flattened, white skin; eyes very few, of a pinkish color and a little rough. Baked or boiled they are white as snow and very mealy. Yields less than one per cent of small potatoes. This variety must not be confounded with Sutton's Magnum Bonum, an English variety, and quite inferior to this.
Originally listed in: 1881 D.M. Ferry Catalog