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SEEDLING-POTATOES. 



By George W. Campbell, Delaware, O. 



Some six or seven years since, in looking over a patch of potatoes 

 known here as the Early-Biscuit variety, I saved a few seed-balls, which I 

 threw into a drawer, where they lay undisturbed until a year ago last spring, 

 when I planted them in a pot in one of my greenhouses in April. Con- 

 trary to my expectations, several seeds grew, and were potted singly into 

 four-inch pots, from which they were transplanted to the garden about the 

 first of June. On digging them in the fall, I was surprised to find many 

 of the potatoes as large as hens' eggs, as I had always heard that potato- 

 seedlings were, the first year, from the size of marrowfat-peas to that of 

 marbles, and that it required three years for their full development. These 

 seedlings varied considerably in productiveness: but they all had a general 

 resemblance to each other, and also a strong family likeness to the parent 

 kind, which was chiefly valuable for earliness, good size, and productive- 

 ness ; not remarkable for quality, being rather yellow-fleshed, and some- 

 ♦ what waxy in texture. The second generation of these seedlings, raised 



