204 THE POTATO. 



The Ape-like Tuber. In this example we have a 

 monstrous likeness of an ape or depraved human creature. 

 It is true the head has been slightly and ingeniously mani- 

 pulated by the original discoverer of the tuber, a facetious 



"THE MONARCH OF THE MOULD." 



(Grown by S. Johnson, Ovoca Vale, Ireland. Photo by J. H. Russell.)] 



Irishman, who favoured us with the photograph. Apart 

 from this, there are the two legs, a short body, minut* 

 arms, and a good imitation of a head. It will be observed 

 that the back of the head is furnished with a dual kind cf 

 pigtail, in the shape of the roots which originally con- 

 nected the tuber with the plant. The sender of the photo 



