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* Bakers' Dozen' — cracks its skin a little more during its progress 

 of aMving at maturity. I have written 'Bakers' Dozen,' because, 

 when Mr Daintree (Fendrayton, near St Ives, Hunts) sent the sort 

 for me to try, two years ago, he said ' he had a great opinion of it, 

 and requested me to give it a ' crisp name.' There were thirteen 

 tubers in the package, so I have named his variety the 'Bakers 

 Dozen'! 



" Cuthush's Forwards. — A capital prolific market or household 

 Potato, and suitable for garden or field culture. It comes a httle too 

 pyriform in shape to please me, although the sample that Mr Cutbush 

 presented to me was a white blunt-nosed kidney of the handsomest 

 type. There can be no mistake about its capability of 'fetching 

 down the scales,' in the heaviest sense of the words, ' per acre.' 



" AlmoncVs Yorkshire Hero. — A prolific and excellent late-keeping 

 Potato, suitable for either garden or field culture, and at the ' top 

 stave of the ladder ' for flavour, and as being suitable for either the 

 market, household, or the parlour table ; albeit a little too dry in its 

 eating to please the extreme palates of a few. It is the best strain of 

 the Lapstone Kidney family, and it is of the hybrid class raised by 

 Mr Thomas Almond by the modern method of grafting the eye of one 

 tuber into the tuber of another. If this variety cannot be got, sub- 

 stitute for it Haigh's original Cobbler's Lapstone, which, I doubt, will 

 be found even more difficult to procure. The family are as prolific as 

 rabbits, and when chosen by natural selection, which has been much 

 resorted to, the younger branches are mostly of a quality sufficient to 

 be thought worthy of keeping, hence there are innumerable varieties of 

 it, but only one that I know of to excel the old original, and that is 

 the Yorkshire Hero. 



" Gryffe Castle Eegenf, the 'King of the class Eegents.'— This ex- 

 cellent variety was raised in Eenfrewshire, and sent to me by a 

 ' Brother Bee-Keeper,' amongst other famous north-country Potatoes, 

 in a bar and frame Stewarton hive. I never knew my 'brother' by 

 name or in the flesh, but I think the world has been told often enough 

 how I have utilised the hive and all about the ' Praties,' but I do 

 think the raiser of this excellent Potato has never advertised it up to 

 its worth. I sent some to the Eev. W. F. Radclyffe, and both with 

 him and myself it ranks highest in the class Regent. Walker's 

 Second Early Regent and the old York Regent are the other sorts to 

 be preferred in lieu of it. Field cultivation only. 



''New American Red is also a Regent. It is a great cropper, and a 

 stain of rose-colour predominates in blotches throughout its flesh when 

 cooked ; but it may lose this feature by about next February ; and it 

 is not fair, generally speaking, to cook any of the Regent class for 



