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This is no doubt due to the potato having become 

 more acclimatised, and therefore better suited to 

 our soil." 



Mr. Notman, Innellan, says: "I am sorry that I 

 cannot give a very bright report of the Chilians. 

 There are certainly some larger potatoes among 

 them than last year, but as a whole the crop (in com- 

 mon with all other potatoes of crop 1884) was poor. 

 Those longest in this country are the best. I have 

 observed this from the time we got a second lot to 

 compare with the first. We boiled some that had 

 been cut by the fork; the flavour was good and 

 potato-like, but they were — not wet — but waxy." 



These, like Mr. Boyd's, were grown in the garden. 

 The following reports are on lots grown in the 

 field: 



Mr. Lindsay, Langdyke, Fenwick, reports : " The 

 Chilians were better this year than formerly, but 

 there is room for improvement yet. They were' 

 larger, and more of them at the shaw. They like 

 plenty of room, and grow deep and wide in the 

 drill. We have never had a meal of them, but I 

 boiled a few from curiosity. They are a little soft, 

 but well-tasted. The sort longest here grew larger 

 than the others ; but as they appeared to be the 

 same potato, we put them together. Tayburn had 

 some this year; he says they did better with him 

 too, and he has ke^Dt on a seed." 



Mr. William Lindsay, Craigends, Fenwick, says : 

 ^' We planted a few Chilians. Their stems and leaves 

 were not so rank and strong as the first year, and 

 the roots were a better size. It was a fair crop and 

 no disease." 



From England I have received no detailed report, 

 but have heard in a general way that these potatoes 

 have done well this year. 



Mr. Thomas Brown, Ardneil, West Kilbride, 

 writes : " The Chilian potatoes have done very well 

 this season. They were on good land, and have im- 

 proved in the cultivation. Those grown here in the 



