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ANALYSIS OF POTATOES (ASH). 



Carbonic acid 13.4 



Sulphuric acid 7.1 



Phosphoric acid 11.3 



Chlorine 2.7 



Magnesia 5.4 



Lime 1.8 



Potash 51.5 



Soda trace. 



Silica 5.6 



Oxide of iron and aluminia .5 



Carbon, water and loss 7 



100.0 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



POTATO MONSTROSITIES. 



THE tubers of the potato vary a great deal in their shape, 

 110 two being exactly alike. This tendency to variation 

 in the case of the potato occasionally lends itself to the 

 production of odd shapes, and to the exhibition of great 

 powers of mimicry. Thus, as in the few examples of 

 tubers illustrated, one tuber mimics a dog, another a 

 cottage loaf of bre'ad, and another an ape or depraved 

 human being. In the course of our long practical and 

 editorial experience, we have seen a wonderful diversity of 

 forms which potato tubers have assumed, and had we 

 only photographed them all, they would have made a 

 most interesting collection, 



