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Patraque Blanche. — An exceedingly productive kind, with 

 grayish white, slightly pink-tinted tubers, which are oblong in 

 shape, squarish at both ends, and tolerably notched ; flesh white ; 



shoot pink. Stems 

 very long and very 

 vigorous growing ; 

 leaves gray ; flowers 

 pink, numerous. This 

 variety produces a 

 considerable number of 

 tubers of medium size. 

 It is a rather late kind, 

 and is more grown for 

 feeding cattle than for 

 table use. 



Quarantaine a Tete Rose. — Tubers oblong or almond- 

 shaped ; skin smooth, yellow, variegated with red near the eyes, 

 especially at the end of the tuber ; flesh yellow. Stems short, 

 erect ; leaves grayish. A half-late and rather productive variety. 

 When grown in a light soil, the tubers of this variety have an 

 extremely handsome and quite distinct appearance. 



Reine Blanche. — A handsome, rather late variety. Tubers 

 medium-sized, or large, very round, white, with a red spot around 

 ea6h of the eyes, which are rather deeply sunk ; shoot pink. Stems 

 erect, vigorous growing ; leaves abundant, dark coloured ; flowers 

 reddish violet, in broad clusters. The tubers of this variety have a 

 very handsome appearance, but are of only middling quality. 



Reine de Mai. — Tubers oblong or almond-shaped, flattened, 

 very smooth, and nearly white ; shoot pink. Stem rather slender 

 and bare of leaves ; flowers white. This is an early variety, and 

 very handsome when well grown, but it is exceedingly delicate, and 

 the tubers are very often spotted. 



Rickmaker. — A very productive, half-late Potato, with oblong, 

 deeply notched, pale yellow 

 tubers and pink shoot ; 

 stems long and trailing. 

 Contains a great deal of 

 starch. 



Rognon Rose {Belgian 

 Kidney Potato). — Tubers 

 flattened, usually almond 

 or kidney - shaped, very 



smooth skin light pink, ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ p^,^^^_ 



yellowish; eyes faintly 



marked ; flesh yellow ; shoot pink. A productive variety, ripening 

 mid-season, and keeping well. 



Pasteur Potato. 



