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‘round. Porter’s Excelsior, a white round, rather flattish, but of 
splendid form. It is perhaps the most handsome of its class, and in 
other respects is a desirable potato, for it crops well, and is of good 
quality when upon the table. This variety, the result, of careful 
‘selection, extending over several years, on the part of the exhibitor, 
was sent out by Messrs. J. Carter & Co. in the course of last spring, 
and may now be obtained in the ordinary course of trade. Bresee’s 
Prolific, Climax, Extra Early Vermont, and Snowflake, four of the 
best of the American potatoes ; Scotch Blue, one of the best of 
the round potatoes with purple skin; Ashtop Fluke; Baron’s 
Perfection, Albion, Early King, three excellent kidney potatoes, 
now fairly well known; Crimson Walnut-leaf, and Select Blue 
Ashleaf, two coloured kidney varieties, good of themselves, and 
useful by way of contrast; Victoria, a well-known and valuable 
variety for main crops ; Champion, a useful early kidney variety of 
the Ashleaf type, were all represented, and in addition the collection 
contained samples of Golden Eagle, Purlie, Grampian, and Shand’s 
Perfection, three local varieties, which appeared to be well worthy 
of general cultivation. Mr. Pink, gardener to Lord Sondes, Lees 
Court, Faversham, was second, with a collection but little inferior 
to that from Mr. Porter. Amongst the varieties represented were 
Snowflake, Late Rose, Oneida, Karly Goodrich, Vermont Beauty, 
and Ruby, all of which are of American origin, and on some soils 
come remarkably good. Rector of Woodstock; Bountiful, the most 
handsome of all the red kidney varieties; Model; Hundredfold 
Fluke, a kidney variety, the tubers streaked with red on a yellow 
ground ; Birmingham Prizetaker, a yellow-fleshed potato, exceedingly 
handsome in appearance, but close and waxy in texture and quite 
indifferent ; Giant King, a useful second early kidney, and Bryan- 
stone Kidney, were also well represented. 
In the class for eighteen varieties, the first prize, a silver cup 
of the value of £10 10s., offered by Messrs. Sutton and Sons, of 
Reading, was awarded to a Scotch cultivator, Mr. Donaldson, Keith 
Hall, Inverary, to a collection in every way first-class ; and amongst 
the most successful competitors in the other classes were Mr. Finlay, 
of Banbury, Mr. Ironsides, Mr. Minchin, Mr. Lumsden, Bloxholm 
Hall, Mr. Littlejohn, Mr. Carwell, High Street, Lewes, ;Mr. 
P. McKinlay, and Mr. Bagerley, of Newark. It would occupy 
too much space to particularize the collections, and therefore it 
must suffice to say that all collections to which prizes were awarded 
were exceptionally good, and it may be added that a number of 
collections which were unrecognized by the judges were so good that 
at any ordinary horticultural exhibition they would have placed the 
exhibitors at the head of the prize list. As indicating the res- 
pective merits of varieties, it may be added in conclusion that in the 
class for a single dish of any white round variety, that of Porter’s 
Excelsior was awarded the first prize ; in the class for any red round 
variety, Carter's Main Crop was the best; and the best dish of any 
white kidney was that of Devonshire Kidney ; and of any red 
kidney the best was that of Extra Early Vermont. In all the classes 
for single dishes, between twenty and thirty dishes were staged. 
November. 
