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sorts have-been derived from Ireland. Its multitudinous 
varieties almost set enumeration at defiance, and new ones 
are appearing and disappearing every year. By much the 
most correct list of the varieties how in cultivation is to be 
found in Mr. Charles Lawson’s useful: book, entitled The 
Agriculturists's Manual. They are arranged in various 
classes, out of which we shall select a very few names of 
the more esteemed sorts. The first class consists of the 
earliest garden varieties of dwarfish growth, and therefore 
well adapted for forcing, such as Fox’s Karly Delight, and 
the Harly Kidney. The next class contains those very 
early kinds, of taller growth, which yield the first garden 
crop; including the Hopetoun Early, Harold’s arly, In- 
vermay Karly, the new Elm-leaved Kidney, and Ash-leaved 
Early, and Early Seedling. Of these, the Hopetoun is 
perhaps the best: the tubers are round, dry, early, and of 
tolerable size; but in all the kinds, the mealiness and 
earliness necessarily depend a good deal on soil, situation, 
and the quality of the season. The third class embraces 
those which generally form the principal garden crop, and 
includes the Prince of Wales Early, tall American Early, 
Shaw’s Early, Taylor’s Forty-fold, and Matchless Kidney. 
For cultivation in the home-farm, the Edinburgh Dons, 
and the Perthshire Reds (of which last there are two or 
three subvarieties), have not yet been surpassed. The cul- 
ture of the late sorts properly belongs to the farm, and 
when thé gardener has to take them under his care, he will 
find it best to adopt such as are common in theagriculture 
of the district. What is called the Everlasting Potato is 
a late sort, the tubers of which have the property of re- 
taining, during winter, the delicate waxy flavor of young 
potatoes. They are left in the ground, but covered with 
litter to prevent the access of frost. It may here be re- 
