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irregular in shape, still it will sell well. The plants ripened nearly all the 

 fruit before frost. Resembles Earliest, from Maule. 



Potaio-leaved Ignoium — College. Plants low-growing, but vigorous; 

 foliage potato-leaf; fruits resembles Ignotum in color and shape, but are 

 larger. Ripens later than Ignotum. 



Climbing — Chi Ids. Plants very strong- growing and healthy, showing a 

 tendency to climb; fruit large, somewhat irregular at stem end, pinkish- 

 purple in color, resembling closely the fruit of Potato-leaf. 



The following sorts difiPer but slightly from Ignotum: 



Majestic — Buist. The fruit is darker and brighter red than Ignotum, 

 and ripens later. 



Prize Belle — Buist. Closely resembles preceding, but plants are not so 

 strong-growing. 



Ten Ton Tomato — Landreth. The plants are not so strong-growing as 

 Ignotum, and the fruit has a yellowish tinge. 



Picture Pock — Childs. Very closely resembles the Ten Ton, differing 

 slightly in growth and color of fruit. 



We received seeds of some of the leading varieties of tomato from 

 Berthoud of Australia, also from Joseph Harris of Moreton Farm, N. Y.; 

 these were planted near the same varieties grown from seeds of our own 

 selection. 



The tomatoes grown from the Australian seed were more uniform and 

 regular in shape, and the plants slightly more productive than the same 

 varieties grown from American seed. Between those grown from seed 

 obtained from Harris, and our own seed, no difference was noted. 



POTATOES. 

 TEST OF VAEIETIES. 



The manner of carrying on this test was the same this year as in previ- 

 ous years, two pounds of seed being used to thirty-three ^eet of row. The 

 rows are three feet apart and the hills one foot apart in the row. 



The planting was done on May 20. The soil was of fair fertility. The 

 previous year the land was in millet. The tubers were partially grown 

 when the drought and hot winds of August stopped further growth and 

 the crop ripened. Those varieties that set few potatoes yielded a larger 

 per cent, of merchantable tubers, and the varieties that set many tubers 

 and are usually the better yielders were generally unable to mature the 

 crop, hence a large per cent, were undersize. For this reason, only the 

 total yield is given. 



Some of the varieties have been on trial for several years, and for com- 

 parison the average yield is included for the number of years that they 

 have been on trial. 



All varieties of which the average yield is less than 100 bushels are 

 dropped from the list. 



Those seedsmen whose name is marked with a * furnished the seed to 

 us previous to the past year, and the crop of 1892 was grown from the 

 college seed. 



The abbreviations used in the description of the tuberp.aiie. as follows: 



