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els per acre, while the past season it yielded only 229 bushels. 

 About 10 per cent, were small. 



92. Alexander Perfection. This variety was donated the 

 Station by Mr. Jonathan M. Taylor of Sanbornton, who had 

 them on exhibition at the State Grange Fair in 1S96. This 

 is a fine oblong potato, and yielded at the rate of 303 bush- 

 els per acre in 1S97. but did not do as well tlie past season. 

 The vines were very large and regular. The small potatoes 

 composed about one third of the crop. 



93. Burrns's No. i (Hammond). An early wiiite potato, 

 oblong in shape, inclined to a russet color, and with compara- 

 tively few shallow eyes. Vines large, strong, erect, and very- 

 even ; about 12^ per cent, small. Average yield for two 

 years, 2S3 bushels. 



95. Virgirosa (Hammond). This variety was introduced 

 by L. L. Olds of Wisconsin. It is an early white variety, ob- 

 long in shape, and quite regular. Vines about i^ feet high 

 and ver}' spreading, but healthy. About 10 per cent, small 

 potatoes. Average yield for two years, 294 bushels. 



96. King of the Earlies (Hammond). A seedling of the 

 Early Ohio, which it resembles very much. 



99. Red American Wonder (Gardener & Co.). This potato 

 is quite commonly grown in the northern part of the state, and 

 is considered a very fine variety. When Bulletin 41 was pub- 

 lished, Mr. W. A. Gardener of Tilton wrote me that the potato 

 of this variety known in the northern part of the state was a 

 red potato, and not a white, as therein described. After some 

 correspondence in regard to identification of the potato and 

 after raising it here at the Station, I concluded to call it the 

 Red American Wonder. In regard to the same, Mr. Gardener 

 writes as follows: ''I find the potatoes sent you were intro- 

 duced six or eight years ago by John Libby of Aroostook 

 county, Me., into Coos county, as American Wonder. It is the 

 most popular potato grown in that section, and is growing in 

 favor. I have sold them for seed for four or five years. F. C. 

 Clement of Warren, N. H., a potato dealer, told me that the 

 American Wonder grown in Coos county gave the best satis- 



