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they are narrower, reticulated, and curled. Flowers numerous, 

 violet-pink, a pretty large proportion of them producing seed. This 

 variety, in fact, is one of those which yield the most seed. In the 

 Paris market it ranks amongst the most highly esteemed kinds, 

 and has completely superseded the old Long Yellow Dutch Potato. 



Yorkshire Hybrid Potato (natural size). 



It is productive, of excellent quality, keeps very well, but, un- 

 fortunately, is very liable to be attacked by the disease. If planted 

 in April, new potatoes may be dug in the course of August. 



The Brie Long Yellow Potato is a sub-variety of this kind, 

 from which it does not differ essentially. Its tubers are generally 

 a little longer and yellower, and ripen somewhat later, but that is 

 chiefly owing to the circumstance that they are grown in richer, 

 deeper, and colder soils than those in which the Yorkshire Hybrid 



Princesse Potato (natural size). 



is usually planted. The characteristic features of both forms — that 

 is, the colour and arrangement of the flowers, and especially the 

 appearance and growing period of the shoots— are, in fact, identical. 



Princesse Potato. — Tuber very long, almost as deep as broad, 

 usually curved, and thicker at the top than at the bottom ; skin 



