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tive friends ; but it was the unanimous decision of those present that the 

 Worcester was the best table-potato offered. It proved to be vejy dry and 

 meal}', of the most delicate flavor, free from any earthy taste, and of fair 

 size. Its form is inclined to roundish, color light pink, skin thin, eyes 

 deep, and flesh very white. One of its good traits is that it will be found dry 

 and of fair quality when only two-thirds grown. 



It has stood the attacks of disease much better than very many other 

 kinds. Its yield varies according to the season. It prefers and always 

 does better in a rather damp or meadow soil. The vines are upright in 

 growth, rank on rich soil, with the tubers generally close to the stem. 

 In planting, it is best to cut the potatoes to single eyes. 



The specimen we figure above was one of a lot of sound, healthy pota- 

 toes, dug Nov. I from a meadow soil, where other varieties were more or 

 less affected with disease. 



To perfect its growth, the Worcester Seedling requires the full season. 



TIGER-FLOWERS. 



This pretty plant {Tigridia) is not so much grown as its merits deserve. 

 Though a native of Mexico, it is of the easiest culture as a summer-bloom- 

 ing bulb, requiring to be planted in good soil about the middle of May, 

 and taken up after the first frost. The best way to preserve the roots is 

 to tie the plants in a bunch, and hang them up in a frost-proof cellar. 



The species are T. pavonia with scarlet flowers, T. coiichiflora with yellow, 

 T. speciosa with brick-red, a hybrid between the two species, but resem- 

 bling T. pavonia and T. Wheelerii, also a hybrid, but resembling T. conchi- 

 flora. The plant sometimes sold as a blue tiger-flower is not a Tigridia, 

 but Phalocallis plwnbea. 



