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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Chardon Potato. 



Chardon. — Tuber very large, round, sometimes long ; eyes 

 much sunk ; skin smooth, pale yellow ; flesh pale yellow ; shoot 

 pink. 



Cornice d'Amiens. — A very handsome, small, early kind, with 

 round, small, or medium-sized tubers, of a yellow colour variegated 



with pink ; shoot pink. Flowers 

 white. A very early, but not 

 very productive variety, which 

 might be suitable for forcing. 



Des Cordillieres. — Tubers 

 yellow, round, very smooth^ 

 small, and very numerous ; flesh 

 yellow ; shoot violet-coloured. 

 The plant is of tufty growth,, 

 with numerous stems. Foliage 

 scanty. A very distinct kind, 

 but of no great account for 

 kitchen-garden culture. 



Descroizilles. — Tubers 

 rounded or slightly oblong, somewhat irregular in shape ; eyes 

 rather deeply sunk ; skin pink or very pale red, slightly wrinkled ; 

 flesh yellow ; flowers white. A late variety, rather deficient in 

 productiveness, but of good quality. 



Excellente Naine. — A very handsome and good variety, re- 

 sem.bling the earliest forms of the Pomme de Terre Royale. The 

 stems are hardly longer than those of the Marjolin Potato, for which 

 this variety might be substituted in frame culture, being quite as 

 productive and quite as early. 



Grosse Jaune Deuxieme Hative. — This Potato is rather exten- 

 sively grown in the fields in the vicinity of Paris. It is, properly 

 speaking, only a sub-variety of the Shaw, or Regent, Potato^ 

 with somewhat larger tubers, and ripening from eight to ten days 

 later. 



Hative de Bourbon-Lancy. — Tubers medium-sized, quite round 

 or very slightly flattened, variegated with yellow and violet colour 

 disposed in bands rather than in round marblings. A moderately 

 vigorous early-ripening variety, with lilac flowers, which are 

 generally abortive. 



Jaune Long-ue de Hollande. — Forixierly the most extensively 

 grown and the most highly esteemed Potato for table use ; since the 

 appearance of the Potato-disease it has been almost entirely super- 

 seded by the Qimrantaijie de Noisy Potato and its sub- varieties. 

 The following were its characteristics : Tubers long, almost always 

 curved, and much thicker at one end than at the other ; skin 

 grayish yellow, slightly wrinkled ; flesh yellow, very floury, and 

 very fine in texture ; shoot pink. Stems rather short, twisted ; 



