102 THE POTATO. 



Best Exhibition Varieties The following varie- 

 ties are what we consider to be the very best both for 

 exhibition and table use : 



ROUND. Windsor Castle, Cigarette, Carltonian, Snow- 

 ball, General Buller, and Evergood. 



KIDNEY. Factor, Snowdrop, Sir John Llewelyn, Satis- 

 faction, Royal Kidney, and Guardian. 



COLOURED ROUND. Reading Russet, Vicar of Laleham, 

 and The Dean. 



COLOURED KIDNEY. Mr. Breese, Edgcote Purple, and 

 King Edward VII. 



CHAPTER XII. 



FORCING POTATOES. 



WHEN we take into consideration the importance attached 

 to this vegetable, one need not be surprised to find there 

 is such a demand for the young tubers early in the year. 

 While wealth increases, the public taste seems to grow 

 with it; therefore, whatever seems to be most out of 

 season there is usually the greatest demand for in fact, 

 it would appear that w 7 e have now arrived at a period 

 when the taste for all things out of season seems to be 

 the prevailing one. New potatoes in March and green 

 peas in April are now quite common things, so, as the 

 Americans say, we must " go one better," and have them 

 all the year round. The flavour of the home-grown pro- 

 duce being so superior to those imported, it is not sur- 

 prising that those who can afford the luxury of having 

 them grown on their own establishments, even though the 



