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Besides its industrial value, it is also one of the most productive 

 Potatoes known, having produced as much as twenty-six to thirty 

 tons per acre. 



Agnelli's Jewel Potato.— The tubers resemble much those 

 of Imperator, but are longer and pale yellow. The flesh is white ; 

 the shoot violet ; the stems tall and very strong ; the leaves like 

 those of Imperator; the flowers ash-gray. A late variety, intro- 



Imperator Potato. 



duced from Austria, suitable only for feeding cattle or for the 

 manufacture of starch. Yields regularly over twenty tons or so to 

 the acre, and contains i8 per cent, of starch, or even more. 



Professor Maerker Potato. — The tubers are large, yellow, 

 rounded, with the eyes slightly marked ; the flesh is white ; the 

 shoot violet ; the flowers violet. It is a half-late variety which may 

 be used for the table, but it is rather a field Potato, rich in starch, 

 and not liable to disease. 



