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very pale, almost white; the shoot pink. The stems very vigorous, 

 quadrangular, thick, erect, with large, smooth, light green leaves. The 

 flowers are white, numerous, and produced in bunches. It is half- 

 early and fairly productive. It was raised from seed at the Institute 

 of Beauvais, Oise, and resembles so very closely the Idaho Potato 

 that one might suppose it had been raised from seed of the Idaho. 



White Elephant Potato.— Tubers very large and usually very 

 long, flattened, and slightly notched ; in colour pale yellow, more 

 or less striped with pink, especially at the end. The flesh is' white 

 and the stems very vigorous, tall, with broad vivid green leaves. 

 The flowers are white. A handsome late potato with remarkably 

 large tubers, specially good for feeding cattle, etc. 



Early Rose Potato. 



Early Rose Potato.— Tubers oblong, rather flattened, often 

 more pointed at the top than at the bottom ; eyes not very deeply 

 sunk, but having a rather prominent ridge or wrinkle belov/ them ; 

 skm smooth, and of a pink colour slightly tinged with salmon 

 colour ; flesh white ; shoot pink, and germinating remarkably soon. 

 Stems medium-sized, erect, from 2 to 2I ft. high, rather thick at the 

 base, but speedily becoming more slender, sometimes branching, 

 and slightly tinged with coppery red, especially near the joints. 

 Leaves flat and smooth, composed almost solely of large oval- 

 acuminate leaflets, of uniform size, slightly glistening, and of a 

 light green colour. Flowers white, large, in not very numerous 

 clusters, and usually falling off abortive. A very productive and 

 early kind, the crop ripening in the month of August. Flesh light 

 m texture, and extremely variable in quality, according to the kind 

 of soil in which the tubers are planted. These do not keep well, 

 as they have too great a tendency to sprout. 



