ROUND YELLOW POTATOES 



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yellow, of sufficiently good quality to be used for the table ; shoot 

 pink. Stems high and vigorous ; flowers lilac. An excellent variety, 

 which ripens at about the same time as the Yorkshire Hybrid, 

 and if inferior to it in quality, produces considerably heavier crops. 

 Canada Potato. A large yellow tuber with the eyes hardly 

 marked. It is rounded and slightly elongated ; the shoot rose 

 colour ; stems vigorous, tall, and foliage abundant, and of a gray- 

 green colour ; the flowers white, in bunches, but producing seed 

 very seldom. The Canada Potato is best for feeding cattle and for 



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Canada Potato. 



industrial purposes. Imported from Canada some years ago by a 

 French missionary, it has been made known principally by M. 

 Paul Genest, the President of the Agricultural Cornice of Luneville. 

 Imperator Potato. The tuber is rounded or slightly oblong, 

 large or very large, pale yellow, with the eyes pretty deeply sunk. 

 The flesh is white ; the shoot violet. The stems are vigorous, tall, 

 erect, quadrangular, bronzy, and bear large leaves with large rounded 

 leaflets, sparsely set, which gives the foliage a rather light appear- 

 ance. The flowers are large, lilac, and do not seed usually. It is 

 a late variety, the tubers of which are remarkably rich in starch. 



