ROUND YELLOW POTATOES 



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I. Round Yellow Varieties 



Shaw, or Regent, Potato. — Tuber round, yellow, with a smooth 

 or wrinkled skin, according to the kind of soil in which it is grown ; 

 eyes rather deeply sunk ; flesh yellow and very floury ; shoot a 

 wax-yellow colour, violet-coloured at the base and at the extremity. 

 Stems rather long, sometimes 3 ft. or more, pliable, almost always 

 drooping, quite green, or very slightly tinged with brown, faintly 

 winged, and almost always branching. Leaves short, numerous, 

 dark and rather dull green ; leaflets crowded closely together, reticu- 

 lated, and always curled and wavy. Flowers very rarely opening, 



Shaw, or Regent, Potato. 



as they almost always fall off when merely small buds ; when they 

 do bloom, they are a pale bluish lilac colour. This variety is more 

 extensively grown than any other kind of Round Yellow Potato in 

 the vicinity of Paris. It is very productive, floury, and of excellent 

 quality. If planted in April, the crop ripens in August 



The Segonzac Potato differs from this variety only by a few 

 characteristics without any importance. 



Early Round Yellow Potato. — This may be considered as a 

 somewhat earlier form of the Shaw, or Regent, Potato, with usually 

 rounder tubers, which also have fewer eyes. In growth it hardly 

 differs from that variety. The stems, however, seldom exceed 

 2 ft or 2 ft. 4 in. in length ; the leaves are not so numerous, and 



