14 THE POTATO. 



perts, like the late Mr. Paterson, Robert Fenn, Messrs. 

 Sutton and Sons, A. Findlay, etc., have, indeed, effected 

 quite a revolution in the potato industry, and put on the 

 market really first-class varieties that have made them- 

 selves famous, and will continue to do so for years to come. 

 So prominent has the potato become that we now have its 

 interests looked after by a special society, the National 

 Potato Society, whilst there is also an annual exhibition, 

 solely devoted to displaying the merits of the countless 

 varieties now in commerce. 



The years 1903 and 1904 will be memorable in the future 

 annals of the potato. In these years the noble tuber was 

 " boomed " as it had never been before, and the extra- 

 ordinary prices obtained were far and away without paral- 

 lel in the history of the potato. It may safely be asserted 

 that such extraordinarily high values will never again be 

 obtained. Certainly, not in this generation. 



