522 THE GARDENER. [Nov. 



as being suitable for garden or field culture, and fully up to the 

 march of progress of the present day." 



The following notes are descriptive of the sorts shown by Mr 

 Robert Fenn on the occasion referred to : — 



" Hogg's Early Coldstream. — A good household or market variety, 

 A 1 for earliness in gaining firmness and flavour ; suitable for frame- 

 work, for garden, or for field culture if the ground is good. 



^^ Dickson's Premier. — Without doubt the greatest yielding early 

 Potato for market and general household consumption, and as an 

 exhibition sort there is none to surpass it. This variety may be 

 substituted for the market or the servants' hall with Myatt's Early 

 Prolific ; but the ' coming Potato ' to. place them both, as well as 

 Rivers' Royal Ashleaf, liors de combat, is Yeitch's Improved Ashleaf ; 

 excepting the Dickson's Premier only as for the exhibition table. 



" Rivers' s Royal Asldeaf. — The best of its class, to be easily and 

 cheaply got at present, for early market and household use, coming 

 in directly after Myatt's Prolific ; A 1 for flavour, albeit yellowish in 

 flesh ; suitable for garden or field culture. 



" Early Emperor, alias Emperor Napoleon. — A good second early 

 round red sort for the market or the household ; A 1 for flavour, 

 though yellowish in its flesh ; suitable for garden or field cultivation ; 

 for the latter preferably, providing the soil of the garden is a rich 

 loam, as in this case the sort is apt to throw gross haulm, and the 

 Potatoes to become diseased. 



" Daintree's Seedling (round). — This is an improved early Regent, 

 and scarcely to be distinguished from the Dalmahoy except by boiling, 

 when Daintree's sort will be found to be ready for the table some 

 eight minutes sooner than the Dalmahoy. First-rate both of them 

 for market, household, or the parlour table, and suitable for garden or 

 field culture. 



" Wheelers Milky White. — A good second early Potato, excellent 

 for the parlour table on account of its good looks, and always appreci- 

 ated by ladies, though for the masculine palate I complain of it, and 

 I have frequently heard it complained of by gentlemen as lacking flav- 

 our. A good household variety, and suitable for garden cultivation. 



" Paterson's Scotch Blue. — A very jDrolific, and a good white-fleshed 

 blue-skinned variety; a second early for market and household use; 

 garden or field culture, more especially for the garden. 



'' Dean's Wateiioo Kidney. — A capital market, household, or parlour- 

 table kind, suitable for either garden or field culture ; a great yielder, 

 and, I presume, a seedling from Wheeler's Milky W^hite, which it 

 much resembles in its flesh. Mr Daintree has a new seedling resem- 

 bling it in every respect, excepting that this new variety — Daintree's 



