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SKKDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



23041 to 23199— Continued. 



23041 to 23086— Continued. 



23060. Medium-sized, oblong, white tubers. 



23061. Medium-sized, round to oblong, lighl violet mottled tubers. 



23062. Round to oblong violet-mottled tubers. 



23063. Small, found to oblong, white tubers. 



23064. Small, round, deep-eyed, yellow tubers. 



23065. Medium-sized, round, yellow tubers. 



23066. Medium-sized, cylindrical, pink tubers. 



23067. Medium-sized, round, uneven, deep-eyed, yellow tulters. 



23068. Medium-sized, roundish flattened, violet tubers. 



23069. Large, round, flattened, shallow-eyed, yellow tubers. 



23070. Medium-sized, round to oblong, violet-mottled tubers. 



23071. Small, oblong, white tubers. 



23072. Small, round, white tubers. 



23073. Large, oblong, somewhat flattened, yellow tubers. 



23074. Medium-sized, oblong, white, violet-tinged tubers. 



23075. Small, round, yellow tubers. 



23076. Large, oblong, flattened, mottled violet and white, shallow- 



eyed tubers. 



23077. Medium-sized, round, uneven, deep-eyed, mottled violet 



and yellow tubers. 



23078. Medium-sized, round, uneven, deep-eyed, pink tubers 



23079. Medium-sized, uneven, white tubers. 



23080. Medium-sized, round, deep-eyed, pinkish yellow tubers. 



23081. Large, smooth, oblong, somewhat flattened, yellow tubers. 



Handsome. 



23082. Medium-sized, round to oblong, somewhat flattened, yel- 



lowish tubers. 



23083. Small, round, deep-eyed, yellow tubers. 



23084. Small, oblong, somewlfat flattened, yellow tubers. 



23085. Medium-sized, round to oblong, smooth, yellow tubers. 



23086. Round to oblong, deep-eyed, pink tubers. 



23087 to 23103. 



From archipelago of Chiloe. " Wild sorts annually resow their seeds, 

 producing, by nature's care alone, limitless thousands of undomesticated 

 tubers of every color and form, all of which are delicious eating. Among 

 the islands there are new and distinct strains, whose tubers and plants 

 have no similarity to known varieties. I gathered one. It had a snow- 

 white skin with small, bright crimson eyes which were shaded with dark 

 crimson. The flesh was sweet as sugar. The plant was upright, thick, 

 and waxlike ; the leaves were like a three-leafed clover ; no one would 

 have taken it for a potato plant. This, as well as many other kinds of 

 wild potatoes, matures in the spring month of October, equivalent to 

 May in the United States. All endure hard frosts, but the ground is 

 never frozen. They remain in the wet about five months during the 

 continuous rains of a Chilean winter, and seem to like it. In this collec- 

 tion there are many potatoes having a like form and appearance; they 

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