464 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



Wonder. The British Queen is an oval and rather flat, in fact a chunky 

 potato, very white skin and white flesh; eyes are nearly flat and very 

 few of them ; can be dug while the tops are still green for earlies, as they 

 are not easily bruised in handling. Like the American Wonder, the 

 Bi'itish Queen potatoes are not particular as to the kind of soil in which 

 they grow, and have excellent keeping cjualities. 



The British Queen is the potato that saved Ireland when the blight 

 was taking everything several years ago. The potato prospect was very 

 gloomy for Ireland until this potato was introduced, and over there it 

 has proved itself blight-proof to date. This potato was introduced in 

 our locality from Ireland seven years ago and is today our most success- 

 ful variety. 



The Burbank is a good standard variety and requires very rich soil to 

 get good results. They can be successfully grown in rich soil where 

 other varieties would grow too rankly. 



The best of the newer varieties that we have been trying out are : the 

 White Bliss, or Pride of the South, an early variety, round and white; 

 Early White Rose, which is well known ; the Downing, which belongs to 

 the Early Rose family but is a much better yielder than the Early Rose. 



In the Rural New Yorker group we have found the following very 

 good, and they do well in heavy land: the New York Rural and the 

 Scotch Rural — very similar, but different ; Carman No. 3 ; Sir Walter 

 Raleigh and Blue Sprout, a round, good-keeping potato ; the Bonanza, a 

 late red potato which yields very well on heavy land ; the White Star, 

 which resembles the Burbank, is a good late white potato. 



Each year we have our best yielding hills saved for seeding the 

 following year. We think that this has been a very important factor 

 in our success in growing potatoes. 



