ROUND YELLOW POTATOES 555 



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I yellow, of sufficiently good quality to be used for the table ; shoot 



I pink. Stems high and vigorous; flowers lilac. An excellent variety, 



i which ripens at about the same time as the Yorkshire Hybrid, 



j and if inferior to it in quality, produces considerably heavier crops. 

 I Canada Potato. — A large yellow tuber with the eyes hardly 



! marked. It is rounded and slightly elongated ; the shoot rose 



i colour ; stems vigorous, tall, and foliage abundant, and of a gray- 



1 green colour ; the flowers white, in bunches, but producing seed 



I very seldom. The Canada Potato is best for feeding cattle and for 



Canada Potato. 



industrial purposes. Imported from Canada some years ago by a 

 French missionary, it has been made known principally by M. 

 Paul Genest, the President of the Agricultural Comice of Luneville. 



Imperator Potato. — The tuber is rounded or slightly oblong, 

 large or very large, pale yellow, with the eyes pretty deeply sunk. 

 The flesh is white ; the shoot violet. The stems are vigorous, tall, 

 erect, quadrangular, bronzy, and bear large leaves with large rounded 

 leaflets, sparsely set, which gives the foliage a rather light appear- 

 ance. The flowers are large, lilac, and do not seed usually. It is 

 a late variety, the tubers of which are remarkably rich in starch. 



