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■ RED OR PINK OBLONG OR LONG POTATOES 577 



Variegated-leaved Potato.— We have placed this variety next 

 to the Early Rose because the two resemble each other closely, 

 only differing in the golden-yellow striped foliage of this variety. 

 The tubers are the same shape and colour as those of the Early 

 Rose Potato, but less numerous and often smaller. 



Cottager's Red Potato (Sauasse).— Tubers flattened, oblong, 

 usually very regular in shape, from about si to 4 in. long, and 

 about 2 in. in diameter ; skin smooth, rather vivid red ; eyes faintly 

 marked, not sunk; flesh yellow; shoot pink. Stems tall, erect, very 

 vigorous, almost always branching, often 3 ft. or more in height, 

 quadrangular, slightly winged, and deeply tinged with brown red. 

 Leaves large, composed of very unequal, oval-round, much reticu- 



Cottager's Red Potato (natural size). 



lated leaflets of a dark, slightly gray and dull, green. Flowers pale 

 violet, in very numerous clusters usually intermingled with the 

 leaves, very rarely producing seed. One of the best kinds for 

 winter use, and most in request in Paris late in autumn. The flesh 

 is somewhat compact, but much more floury as the season advances. 

 This variety is rather free from the Potato-disease properly so called, 

 but it often sufi"ers from the affection know in France as "la 

 Frisolee," which shrivels up both leaves and stems at the com- 

 mencement of their growth. 



Robertson's Giant Kidney Pota.to (Rouo-e longue de Hollande). — 

 Tubers very easily recognised, flattened kidney or almond shaped, 

 usually very long, with the base very narrow, and often curved into 

 a crook ; skin smooth, of a rather dark red slightly tinged with 



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