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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 varieties are 

 and will always be changing, new additions being made to the 

 list, and old ones dropped. The following list includes the 

 sorts now leading : 



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 re- 

 sembling it, but considerably earlier. Good for home and 

 market garden. 



White Prize. — A very smooth, handsome potato and a 

 great yielder. Flesh, white ; and always cooks dry and mealy. 



The Polaris. — A new extra early of considerable merit. 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. 



Early Rose. — The well-known early market variety. So 

 many of its seedlings have been introduced in recent years, 

 and are being marketed under the name of " Early Rose," that 

 it may be difficult to procure the pure old variety under that 

 name. 



Beauty of Hebron. — Equals the Rose in popularity as an 

 early market sort, and ripens at about the same season. 



Clark's No. i. — An early sort of the Rose type. 



Peerless. — An old sort, formerly much grown for market, 

 especially in sandy soils; very productive, and perhaps still 

 good for the south. 



