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Large tubers cut into sets of medium size, and furnished with 
two or three short purple sprouts are preferable to all others, as 
they yield the heaviest crop of good tubers. 
It is hardly necessary to say that the space between the potatoes 
must be kept perfectly free from weeds throughout the season, but 
it may be well to remind amateur cultivators that the frequent 
hoeing necessary in the early part of the season for keeping down 
the weeds, will also be most beneficial to the crop, especially if the 
soil has a tendency to harden on the surface. The earthing up 
should commence at an early stage, and be accomplished in a gradual 
manner, as there is the less likelihood of the stems being injured. 
As the new kinds are added as fast as they make their appear- 
ance, my collection is now very large, and this season I shall plant 
120 varieties. This number is much beyond the requirements of 
the amateur, and from it I have selected twenty-four, all of which 
are of the highest value, and should be grown by all who wish to be 
in the front rank at the exhibitions. 
Ashtop Fluke. A handsome potato belonging to the Lapstone 
section, and therefore of excellent quality. 
Bountiful—A beautiful red kidney of medium size, productive, 
and of fine quality. 
Blanchard.—A handsome round potato, prettily marked with 
purple on a yellow ground. 
Early Poragon.—A. kidney-shaped potato of American origin, 
equal in earliness to the Early Rose, and producing handsome tubers. 
Early Oneida—An American potato, handsome and of good 
quality, on most soils. 
Excelsior Kidney—A remarkably fine potato of the Dawe’s 
Matchless type, that can be very strongly recommended. 
Headly’s Nonpariel.—One of the very finest-forms of the Lap- 
stone race. 
King of Potatoes.—A yellow-fleshed potato, variable in form, and 
of good quality. 
Model.—A iarge, heavy-cropping potato, handsome in shape, of 
good quality, and well adapted for main crops. 
Magnum Bonum.—A very handsome and productive late potato 
of fine quality, now being distributed by Messrs. Sutton and Sons, 
Reading, for the first time. 
Porter's Excelsior —A flattish-round potato, remarkable for its 
handsome appearance and excellent quality. This is now being 
offered by Messrs. J. Carter and Co., of High Holborn. 
President.—A fine kidney-shaped potato of good quality. 
Prince of Teck.—A rather early variety, remarkable for its hand- 
some appearance. 
Red Emperor.—A fiattish-round deep-red potato, one of the 
most handsome of the coloured varieties ; it is productive, and of 
good quality upon the table. 
Rector of Woodstock.—A medium-sized round potato, very hand- 
some; a fair cropper, and of the finest quality. 
Ruby.—A new red kidney-shaped potato raised in America, and 
of great promise. 
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