POTATOS. 
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all Potatos 1 know in tuber, foliage, and flower. The foliage 
is exceedingly dark in colour ; the stems very erect and bushy, 
growing more densely than any other variety ; the leaves are 
so round as to appear at first sight unlike those of the Potato. 
No. 17.— Red Fik-apple Potato. 
Fig. 45. 
The tubers are mostly oblong, with the eyes or buds almost as 
strongly developed as in the Fir-apple varieties, and are in 
colour white mottled with purple. It bears a profusion of 
purple flowers. We saw no disease until 1894 ; then it suffered 
badly. 
No. 18. — Whii;e Fir-apple Potato. 
Fig. 46. 
Illustration No. 10 represents a Potato found growing 
apparently wild in the Rocky Mountains by Mr. R. A. Strick- 
land, and sent to us through Mr. Hunt, of the Reading Y.M.C.A., 
in February 1893. It is almost a counterpart of the large white 
