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Lawson's useful book, entitled The Agriculturist's Ma- 

 nual. They are arranged in various classes, out of which 

 we shall select a very few names of the more esteemed 

 sorts. The first class consists of the earliest garden 

 varieties of dwarfish growth, and therefore well adapt- 

 ed for forcing, such as Fox's Early Delight, and the 

 Early Kidney. The next class contains those very 

 early kinds, of taller growth, which yield the first gar- 

 den crop ; including the Hopetoun Early, Harold's 

 Early, Invermay Early, the new Elm-leaved Kidney, 

 and Ash-leaved Early, and Early Seedling. Of these, 

 the Hopetoun is perhaps the best : the tubers are round, 

 dry, early, and of tolerable size ; but in all the kinds, 

 the mealiness and earliness necessarily depend a good 

 deal on soil, situation, and the quality of the season. 

 The third class embraces those which generally form the 

 principalgarden crop, and includes the Prince of Wales 

 Early, tall American Early, Shaw's Early, Taylor's 

 Forty-fold, and Matchless Kidney. For cultivation in 

 the home-farm, the Edinburgh Dons, and the Perthshire 

 Reds (of which last there are two or three subvarieties), 

 have not yet been surpassed. The culture of the late 

 sorts properly belongs to the farm, and "^hen the gar- 

 dener has to take them under his care, he will find it 

 best to adopt such as are common in the agriculture of 

 the district. What is called the Everlasting Potato is 

 a late sort, the tubers of which have the property of re- 

 taining, during winter, the delicate waxy flavor of 

 young potatoes. They are left in the ground, but cov- 

 ered with litter to prevent the access of frost. It may 

 here be remarked, tliat if the tubers of any good late 

 variety, such as the Edinburgh Don or the Stalfold Hall, 

 be buried in the earth so deep as to prevent vegetation. 



