cultivated in the Garden of the Society. 569 

 Potatoes. 



The collection of varieties of this vegetable in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society is very extensive ; considerable 

 attention has been bestowed on the description of them, and 

 in the examination of their comparative merits ; but it will 

 require much time before a monograph on them can be laid 

 before the Society. Selections of new, curious, or particu- 

 larly useful sorts, will therefore be occasionally made and 

 descriptions of them published, until a general notice of the 

 whole can be communicated. 



Golden Potatoe of Peru. 

 The variety of the Common Potatoe, cultivated in Peru 

 under the name of Papas Amarillas or the Golden Potatoe, 

 has long been considered of importance to be procured, and 

 was consequently the object of constant instruction to the 

 correspondents of plant-collectors resident at Lima and in 

 the adjacent countries. The Horticultural Society was for- 

 tunate in first obtaining it in a state fit for cultivation. It 

 was transmitted to the Society by the late James Cowan, 

 Esq. and received from him in May, 1823. The stems of 

 the plant are tall, of a light yellowish green, naked at the 

 bottom, branching and very straggling ; the leaflets are light 

 green, much wrinkled, slightly undulated, and acuminate, 

 thinly set on long footstalks; the pinnulae are numerous. 

 The flowers are white, large, and numerous, growing on long 

 peduncles, and forming large trusses ; they are slightly fra- 

 grant, a circumstance in which they differ from other varieties. 

 The tubers are small, irregularly shaped, but approaching to 

 globular ; their skin is pale yellow, and nearly smooth ; the 



