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quality, and the arrangements were more thoroughly satisfactory. 
The latter details were, indeed, so well carried out, that the com- 
mittee, of which J. Abbiss, Hsq., J.P., is president; Mr. Shirley 
Hibberd, vice-president; Mr. J. Crute, treasurer, and Mr. P. McKin- 
lay, honorary secretary, may be heartily congratulated on the success 
attendant on their labours. The show was arranged in the Concert 
Room, and the potatoes, consisting of nearly three thousand dishes, 
were placed upon six broad tables extending the whole length of the 
building. A line of neat plants with ornamental leafage was placed 
down the centre of each table, and on the right-hand side, Mr. Amies, 
of Islington, staged specimens of several kales, maize, and of various 
garden and farm roots, to show the value of his “ Patent Manure” 
as a fertilizer; and on the opposite side, Messrs. J. Carter and Co., 
of High Holborn, staged an attractive collection of potatoes, gourds, 
and well-coloured plants of the Chilian beet, and the general effect 
was remarkably good. The display was, in fact, quite as attractive 
as an exhibition of autumn fruits, for all the tubers were shown in 
dishes of the same size and pattern, and in a perfectly clean 
condition. 
Chief amongst the prizetakers were the cultivators north of the 
Tweed, and one of the Scotch exhibitors succeeded in winning no 
less than six of the seventeen first prizes, five of them being in im- 
portant classes for collections. The success of the Scotchmen may 
in part be attributed to the marked manner in which they were 
favoured this year by the weather. Whilst the potatoes in England, 
especially those in the south, west, and midland counties, were nearly 
burnt up by the intense heat of July and August, and the growth pre- 
maturely checked, the crops throughout Scotland were enjoying 
weather most favourable to the production of heavy crops of tubers 
of splendid quality. The English growers, however, did well, and 
some of the ‘samples submitted by them were quite unsurpassed 
in quality and finish. The competition in all the classes was re- 
markable for its severity, and in many of them there were upwards 
of thirty entries. 
The class for twenty-four varieties was the most important in 
the exhibition, and the first prize, of £12 12s., was awarded to 
Mr. Porter, of Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, for a collection which 
has probably not been surpassed since potatoes have received due 
recognition at the hands of managers of horticultural exhibitions. 
The varieties were perhaps the finest that could have been selected 
for exhibition purposes, and an enumeration of them will be of 
service to those who intend growing for exhibition next year, but 
are not conversant with the best varieties for that purpose. They 
were—Red Emperor, a red round, very handsome, and of good 
quality, and productive. Model, a white round, rather flat, large, 
and of good finish; it is a splendid potato for main crops, 
especially on rather light soils. Rector of Woodstock, a white 
round, and a gentleman’s potato in the strictest sense of the word. 
The tubers are of medium size, but perfect in shape, and the flesh dry 
and mealy and the flavour most excellent. It is a rather light cropper, 
and requires good soil. Rintgul’s Harly Don, a useful second early 
