Varieties 139 



semond, or the old yellow sweet potato of Maryland and 

 Virginia, is a dry yellow potato popular in the northern 

 markets. This potato, renamed in New Jersey, has 

 given rise to the Delaware and the Eed Nose varieties 

 and to the various other strains of the Jersey potatoes. 



NiGGEB KiLXEE. — The Nigger Killer, or Nigger 

 Choker, has a purplish red skin and the whitest flesh of 

 any potato. It is very dry but really sweeter than the 

 dry yellow varieties. The vines are very long, vigorous 

 and dark purple in color. The potatoes are long, cylin- 

 drical and crooked. The quality is poor, the variety 

 being grown mostly for stock-food. 



NoETON Yam. — This variety belongs to the pumpkin 

 colored yams, and is largely grown and sold through- 

 out North Carolina. It has a yellow skin and the flesh 

 is dark pumpkin colored when cooked. 



Old Fashioned Ybi^low Yam. — " Stem is medium 

 thick, white below soil surface and purplish above. 

 Leaf is very deeply divided, with three lobes and two 

 shoulders; margin entire, light green above and gray 

 green under surface; veins moderately heavy, light 

 green in color; petioles are thin, rather short, light 

 purplish in color." ^ 



Peabodt. — This potato grows to an immense size, 

 has yellow flesh, red skin, and is very dry and tasteless. 

 It is often sold on the Ealeigh, North Carolina, market, 

 when about one-fourth grown, as there are usually no 

 good potatoes on the market at that time. ^Vhen fully 

 grown, it will not sell for table use in the South but is 

 frequently used as food for hogs, the animals being 

 turned on the fields to gather the roots as desired. 



1 T. C. Johnson, Va. Truck Exp. Sta. 



