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wintering over, next to that in root cellar, is in pits, provided the 

 potatoes are covered up when cool, and protected sufficiently to 

 keep them from contact with frost. 



VARIETIES. 



The most sensible way of classifying 

 our hundreds of potato varieties, it seems 

 to me, would be by bringing them under 

 the head of types or families Early Rose 

 type, Burbank type, Beauty of Hebron 

 type, Peerless type, etc. The following 

 list includes the leading sorts : 



Early Ohio. Yet the earliest good 

 sort with which I am acquainted. Needs 

 high culture, and is emphatically a garden 

 potato ; especially valuable for the market 

 garden. Cooks dry and mealy even before 

 fully ripe. Quality best. Keeps well, much 

 better than its parent, the Early Rose. 



Early Sunrise. Another seedling of 

 Early Rose, much resembling it, but con- 

 siderably earlier. Good for home and 

 market garden. 



The People's. A promising new 

 seedling. In shape it is oblong to 

 round; flesh, white; eyes, shallow; tubers 

 remarkably large and handsome, of great 

 uniformity. They cook dry and mealy. 

 Mature about the same time as the Empire 

 State. 



White Prize. A very smooth, hand- 

 some potato and a great yielder. Flesh, 

 white; and always cooks dry and mealy. 



The Potentate. This fine new variety 

 originated in Iowa. It is a fine keeper, and 

 claimed to resist rot better than most other 

 sorts 



The Chas. Downing. A very early 

 and promising variety of recent intro- 

 duction. An excellent table sort, as it 

 equals the well-known Snowflake in 

 quality. 



The Polaris. A new extra early of 

 unusual promise. It is of oblong shape, 

 white skin; eyes few and shallow, always 

 cooks dry and mealy. Matures a week ahead of either the 

 Early Rose or Beauty of Hebron, 



