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open ground, the roots are piled up so as 

 to form a ridge like the roof of a house, 

 slanting outwards on both sides from the 

 top. They are then covered with straw 

 and earth as before, the trench from which 

 the earth is taken affording drainage to 

 carry off the water that trickles from the 

 exterior of the cave in wet weather. Roots 

 of all kinds, except onions, perhaps, may be 

 stored through the winter in this manner. 



Potatoes, Suitable Sorts of. 



In Hooper's "Gardening Guide" the 

 following is given as " the result of much 

 experience upon different soils," and will 

 be found a useful guide m suiting the sorts 

 to be grown to the character of the soil in 

 which they are to be planted: "(i) For 

 very light soils : Try almost any kind, 

 avoiding Magnum Bonum, Covent Garden 

 Perfection, Alpha, Schoolmaster, and 

 Fenn's varieties generally. (2) For medium 

 soils : There is no restriction in this. (3) 

 For heavy soils : choose Grampian, Ash 

 Leaf, Schoolmaster, Regent, Magnum 

 Bonum, Covent Garden Perfection, and 

 Gordon's Victoria Regent. " t 



"The following are named as good sorts 

 of potatoes, but many of them are now but 

 little grown : 



WHITE KIDNEY. 



Ash-leaf Kidney. 

 Breadfruit. 

 Breesee's Prolific. 

 Covent Garden. 

 Early King. 

 Fluke. 



International. 

 L/apstone. 

 Magnum Bonum. 

 Mona's Pride. 

 Myatts's Prolific. 

 Pride of America. 



ueen of the Valley, 

 nowflake. 

 Woodstock. 



BLUE KIDNEY. 

 Manhattan. 



RED KIDNEY. 

 geauty of Hebron. 



Early Rose. 



Extra Early Vermont. 



Superior. 



Trophy. 



Wonderful. 



RED ROUND. 

 Adirondack. 

 Beauty of Kent. 

 Brownell's Beauty. 

 Grampian. 

 Red Emperor. 

 Triumph. 



Red-skinned Flower- 

 ball. 



PARTI-COLOURED 

 ROUND. 



Blanchard. 

 Radstock Beauty. 



WHITE ROUND, 

 Alpha. 



Climax. 

 Dalmahoy. 

 Dunbar Regent. 

 Early Oxford. 

 Gordon's Victoria Re- 

 gent. 



Matchless. 

 Paterson's Victoria, 

 --orter's Excelsior. 

 Reading Hero. 



Schoolmaster. 

 Scotch Champion. 

 York Regent. 



BLUE ROUND. 



Forty-Fold. 

 Hooper's 



Blue. 

 Vicar of Laleham. 



Round 



Appended, for the guidance of potato 

 growers who may be- desirous of trying 

 new varieties, the following lots of potatoes 

 recently introduced have been extracted 

 from the catalogues (1892) of Messrs. 

 James Carter and Co., High Holborn, 

 London, W.C. ; Messrs. Daniels Bros., 

 Norwich ; and Messrs. Sutton and Sons, 

 Reading. 



In two out of the three lists given 

 below numbers will be found following 

 the name of each variety. No. I in- 

 dicates potatoes belonging to the First 

 Early Section ; No. 2, the Second Early 

 Section ; No. 3, the Mid-season Section ; 

 and No. 4, Main Crop and Late Varieties. 

 When ordering seed potatoes for trial, the 

 purchaser is advised to mention the kind 

 of soil in which the tubers are to be 

 planted when writing to the grower, and 

 to leave it to him to select the sorts best 

 suited to the character of the ground. 



i. FROM MESSRS. JAMES CARTER AND 

 Co.'s SEED CATALOGUE. 



Ashtop Flake, a white kidney ; the handsomest 



potato in commerce. 

 Cosmopolitan, a handsome potato, of splendid 



quality, and excellent for field crops. 

 First Crop, earliest, most prolific, and best kid- 

 ney in cultivation. 

 Holoorn Abundance, disease - resisting. As 



productive as Magnum Bonum, with the better 



qualities of its parents White Elephant and 



Snowflake. 

 H oiborn Perfection, in shape a flat oval ; flesh 



yellowish white, of fine flavour. 

 Holborn Prolific, valuable as an exhibition 



potato, or for table and market purposes. 

 Holborn Reliance, produces prolific crops of 



large, even-sized potatoes of best quality. 

 Imperator, a main crop white oval, of handsome 



appearance, and disease proof. 

 King of the Russets, absolutely free from 



disease ; yields 8 tons per acre, 

 iiagnum Bonum (reselected), said to be the 

 ! heaviest cropping potato ever known- 



