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Flesh nearly white and rather dry. A very pop- 

 ular variety and good producer. 



Louisiana Bulletin 3G, p. 1266. — Southern Queen is 

 recommended for both quality and quantity. 



Louisiana Bulletin 52. — Southern Queen. One of 

 the most productive varieties (720 bushels per acre 

 in last experiment), but not an excellent table 

 variety. Suggests an enormous amount of hog and 

 stock food, and should be grown largely for this 

 purpose. 



Fitz (Sweet Potato Culture, p. 9). — Southern 

 Queen is the earliest of all sweet potatoes. In eating 

 condition (near Baltimore) by the middle of July 

 when first dug. too wet in fall and early winter. 

 Root very large, light color, good keeper, vine vig- 

 orous, leaves large. Good quality. 



So we find that the Southern Queen, one of the 

 best-known sweet i:>otatoes in the United States, has 

 been variously characterized as round-leaved and 

 shouldered, foliage pale green and dark green, vines 

 very vigorous and medium; tubers obtuse, round and 

 inclined to run to roots, medium sized, and large, 

 smooth, and rough ; skin white, greenish-brown, and 

 light yellow; flesh yellow, grayish-white, grayish- 

 yellow, light yellow, soft, and hard ; damp, very wet, 

 mealy, and dry; quality poor, fair, recommendable, 

 a good potato, good liQg and stock food, flavor coarse, 

 fibrous, tasteless, yet a very popular table variety in 

 the South; late, rather early, very early and the 

 earliest of all sweet potatoes. 



The writer has purposely considered chiefly the 

 work of the agricultural stations, in order that there 

 could not be the objection that the men giving the 

 descriptions were unfamiliar or unskilled as regards 

 such work. These men have been selected as efficient 



