POTATOES: ENGLISH VARIETIES 591 



numerous. The flesh is watery and of only middling quality. The 

 variety is more curious than useful. 



Britannia. — Tuber yellow, long ; flesh yellow ; shoot white. 

 Resembles very much the Royal Ash-leaf Potato. 



Coldstream, or Hogg's Coldstream. — Tubers round, small or 

 medium-sized ; skin and flesh yellow ; flowers and shoot violet. 

 Stems small and pliant, generally prostrate ; leaves rounded, 

 grayish green. A very good, hardy and early kind, but only 

 moderately productive. 



Dalmahoy. — Tubers round, small or medium-sized, white ; eyes 

 rather well marked, but not very deeply sunk ; shoot violet. Stems 

 erect, short, seldom exceeding i ft. in height ; leaves gray, rather 

 crumpled, with large pointed leaflets. The flowers fall off without 

 opening. A selected form of the Regent. 



Dawe's Matchless (Synonyms : Excelsior Kidney, Webb's Im- 

 perial, Early Bryanstone Kidney, Manning's Kidney, England's 

 Fair Beauty, Chagford Kidney, Wormley Kidney, Champion 

 Kidney). — A very fine and productive mid-season Potato. Tubers 

 remarkably handsome, oblong, sometimes flattened, sometimes 

 kidney-shaped, exceedingly smooth, nearly white, and often 

 measuring 5 or 6 in. in length, by 2 in. or more in diameter ; eyes 

 hardly marked ; flesh white ; shoot violet. Stems rather vigorous, 

 erect ; leaves rounded, reticulated, and of an almost black-green 

 colour ; flowers white. This variety is not much grown in France, 

 where we cultivated it for some time by mistake under the name of 

 P. Confederee. The true P. Confederee (a synonym for P. Marceau\ 

 however, has violet-coloured flowers and broader and yellower 

 tubers. 



The Dean. — Tubers round or slightly flattened, skin dark 

 purple, and wrinkled ; flesh yellow ; shoot violet. A half-late, 

 fairly productive variety, remarkable for the regular shape and 

 dark colour of its tubers. 



Early Emperor Napoleon.— Tubers almost spherical or 

 slightly flattened, and entirely devoid of eyes ; skin slightly 

 wrinkled, red, and, in exceptional cases, variegated with yellow ; 

 shoot red ; flesh yellow-white. Stems slender, usually trailing 

 on the ground ; leaves exceedingly narrow and gray ; flowers 

 red, in thin clusters. A half-early and not very productive kind, 

 but remarkable for the handsome appearance and regular shape 

 of the tubers. 



Early June {Kerr). — Tuber flat, almond-shaped, yellow, smooth ; 

 shoot white ; flesh yellow. A sub-variety of the Royal Ash-leaved 

 Potato. 



Early May Queen. — Tubers small, round, red, rough-skinned ; 

 eyes well marked ; flesh white ; shoot white. Resembles Early 

 Rose. 



