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poor soil, and an inferior crop. We have heard several gen- 

 tlemen, on v/liose opinion we could place much confidence, 

 state, that the Rohans were a very excellent potato, and would 

 compare with any of our common varieties, and were only 

 surpassed by the best Eastern sorts. We hope the trial of 

 another season will more fully settle the opinion of cultivators 

 respecting its true merits. 



The Sommciller potato is the name of a new variety which 

 was received from France, for the first time, last year. It 

 has only been tried by a few individuals. A correspondent of 

 the Cultivator slates that he planted one potato, which he re- 

 ceived from France, late last spring. From the shrivelled 

 and bruised condition in which it was received, he was not 

 able to make but twenty-one sets, of one eye each, weighing 

 about nine ounces, and when planted, many of them were so 

 poor that only eleven grew. The twenty-one sets were 

 planted in one row across the garden, one eye in each hill, the 

 hills two feet apart in the row. In order to compare it with 

 the Rohan, he cut from a potato of the latter, twenty-one 

 eyes, which he planted in a parallel row, at a distance of three 

 feet from the Sommeiller; of these every set grew, and with 

 great vigor. The whole were gathered on the 1 1th of Octo- 

 ber last, when the tops were still green. The product of the 

 eleven sets of the Somraeiller was forty-seven pounds of pota- 

 toes, and from the Rohan, one hundred and twenty-four 

 pounds. This, when it is recollected that only eleven sets out 

 of twenty-one grew, must be called a good product: the whole 

 of the sets did not weigh nine ounces, and though ten of 

 them did not start, and many of them that did made a feeble 

 growth, yet the yield is as nearly two hundred to one. The 

 largest potato weighed three pounds two ounces. 



The Sommeiller potato is supposed to be a seedling from 

 the Rohan, as it very much resembles it in general appear- 

 ance; it is rather rounder, and the eyes not so deeply sunk. 

 As an eating potato, the Sommeiller difi'ers but little from the 

 Rohan; it is a shade whiter, and perhaps a little more farina- 

 ceous. Another year will afford the opportunity of giving it 

 a good trial. 



The Pollard potato is the name of a new variety, raised in 

 Maine, by Mr. Pollard, of Isle Wetmore, where it was pro- 

 duced from the seed of the Chenango. It is a good sized 

 potato, longer and thinner than the Chenango, with a very 

 smooth bright red skin, the eyes slightly raised upon the sur- 



