THE POTATO AND THE POMATO 



"The city is recruited from the country. In 

 the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate mon- 

 arch in Europe was imbecile. The city would 

 have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago 

 but that it was reinforced from the fields. It 

 is only country that came to town day before 

 yesterday, that is city and court today." 



Some of the potatoes which are hurried for- 

 ward in the greenhouse are very interesting 

 because of their size. Perhaps a hundred, of 

 them, so small are they, may be held in a 

 child's hand, and all of them perfect potatoes 

 and all differing in color, size and shape. One 

 new potato which has proven most toothsome 

 is beautifully colored throughout all its flesh. 

 The color is a magenta approaching crimson, 

 so distributed that, when the potato is cut 

 open, no matter from what angle, it presents 

 most interesting figures, some conventional, 

 some severely geometric, some having a start- 

 ling likeness to human and animal faces. 



Mr. Burbank says that an erroneous opinion 

 prevails that the potato has a tendency to die 

 out, or run out, as the phrase is, in various 

 countries. He says this apparent running out 

 of a given variety is generally due to the intro- 



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