THE POTATO 49 



man No. 3, Burbank, White Beauty, White Mam- 

 moth, North Pole Easterly, Great Divide, North 

 Pole Stinnett, Harvest King, North Pole. 



Group 6: Heavy yielding varieties; undesirable 

 for market purposes, but may be grown for stock 

 feed: Johnson's Seedling, Purple and Gold, Pin- 

 gree, Red Jacket, Empress of India. " 



GREAT BRITAIN 



The following letter from Arthur W. Sutton, 

 Royal Seed Establishment, Reading, England, ex- 

 plains the variety situation in Great Britain: 



"As regards a list of the best potatoes now grown 

 in Great Britain, I should like to explain that it 

 would be quite easy to double and treble the sorts 

 mentioned in the enclosed list, but you have asked 

 for a list of the best potatoes now grown in Great 

 Britain, and I have therefore confined myself to 

 those I consider the best, and those which at the 

 same time are fairly widely cultivated. 



"You are of course aware that whenever a po- 

 tato is introduced which proves to be of exceptional 

 merit, a great number of other so-called novelties 

 very rapidly appear in commerce under different 

 names, which cannot be distinguished from the 

 original type. This applies particularly to the 

 class of 'Up to Date,' some of the most popular 

 of this type of potato being ' Duchess of Cornwall, ' 

 'The Factor,' and 'Scottish Triumph;' also types 

 corresponding very closely to 'Button's Abun- 

 dance, ' such as 'Cramond Blossom, ' 'The Provost,' 

 'Diamond,' and 'The Crofter,' also to 'Lang- 

 worthy,' which very closely resembles 'Clarke's 

 Maincrop. ' " 



