POTATOS. 
Lindsay, from whom I obtained specimens in 1887, which have 
been cultivated in om- Trial Grounds since, with the result that 
the tubers have considerably increased in size. 
No. 14.— Papa Amai;illa, 
Fig. 42. 
Writing in 1887, Mr. Lindsay stated that the original 
plants had been left in the same beds for at least thirty years. 
They produced long, running shoots having very few and 
small tubers. Five or six years before 1887 a few tubers were 
No. 15.— Afiucax I'otato. 
Fig. 48. 
planted ni well-manured ground, and this practice had l;een 
continued, with the result that the tubers had gone on in- 
creasing in size. When left in the ground all the winter the 
tubers appeared to be quite unaffected by frost, and no disease 
had been observed. 
