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was given by Lindley, but small tubers are invariably 
found under cultivation, and their size has greatly increase 
during the past twenty years, until they resemble in size the culti- 
which 
of these wild types gave rise to our cultivated potatoes. A fact 
tans, although during the whole period it has been grown in close 
year after year. The potatoes originally introduced into England 
or into Europe were certainly introduced as cultivated potatoes, 
and not as wild types, and it is at least doubtful whether in Chili, 
lsewhere, any specific type of tuber-bearing Solanum 
(apart from Solanum etuberosum) can be found which will, under 
cultivation, give plants at all like the potato of commerce. A 
brief summary of the history of the introduction of the potato 
into Europe was given, and a photographic copy shown of the 
earliest drawing of the potato, by Philippe de Sivry, sent by him 
to Clusius in 1589 and preserved in the Musée Plantin at Antwerp. 
Pror. Sarcent has issued the first part of the second volume 
of his important work on Trees and Shrubs, “ illustrations of new 
lished long since by his handsome and scholarly Silva of North 
America, to which Trees and Shrubs may be reg: as in some 
hew species of Crategus—a genus of extraor 
North erica, concerning which reference may be made 
Prof. Sarg per in this Journal ugust last; eight 
Viburnums, three of them new, and two 
panese 
Loniceras, described by Dr. Rehder, the most recent monographer 
