I f 0stecrij)t to f ift^ (^Vilmu 



April 10, 1856. 



W. R. PRINCE & CO. I 



I Have to announce that the result of their experiments on 

 I the hardihood of the Chinese Potato have proved per- 

 I fectly satisfactory. The roots, mentioned on a previous 

 I page as having been left exposed during the past winter, j 

 have now been taken up, and exhibited, in a perfectly i 

 sound and healthy condition, before the Farmers' Club i 

 of the American Institute, where they were tested to I 

 the satisfaction of every member present. j 



NOTICE ' 

 Co all Cnltibators of tlj£ C^tiuse f otato. j 



We are greatly desirous that every cultivator of the I 

 genuine CHEESE KICE-WHITE variety, obtained \ 

 from us, should favor us, in November next, with a report ! 

 of his success or failure (if such a thing is possible) in its [ 

 culture ; and we also desire that all may state as to the ' 

 qualities in which it is so greatly superior to the Diosoo- : 

 UKA. Japoxica, now called by m.any JAPAN POTATO, | 

 [ and as to the probability of its being universally adopted j 

 I by our country, in preference to all other potatoes. ' 

 \ ' WM. K. PKIKCE & CO. : 



American Institute — Farmers' CirB. — Wm. R. Prince, having made a 

 j most ample Ileport to this Institution, on the ISth of March, refuting and 

 j annihilating the false statements which ignorayice, malice, and stupidifi/ 

 I have palmed upon the public, and proving the published "Report of 

 March 4th " to be utterly false and spurious, and also that the triumphant 

 Report of Mr. Meigs — the Secretary, in behalf of the Dioscorea Batatas 

 — had been stolen, and the above spurious one published in its place — will 

 transmit his Report (2nd Edition) to applicants. It will be seen that every 

 vestige of the vile attacks vanish before the test of facts and truth, and 

 that every statement made in the present pamphlet has fully confirmed. 

 ! We -will only refer to Prof. Decaisne's latest Report, published by the 

 j French Institute, in -which he declares that it has been fully tested, even 

 j to the most northern limits of France, and must now be deemed " i7irorj,o- 

 : rated in the Ar/ricnltnre of France!^ 



