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cooked in the ordinary way, it is chiefly grown for the colour of 
the flesh, which is dense purple, almost black. On account of 
this deep colour the tubers are useful for ornamental cookery. 
The Potato shown in Illustration No. 20 is grown rather 
extensively in Norway. Commander F. W. E. Crowe, who sent 
it to us, considered this to be extremely valuable for the supply 
of so-called new Potatos throughout the year. The tubers 
No. 21. — Potato Monstrosity. 
Fig. 49. 
seldom exceed the size of an almond, and by lifting the crop 
before it is quite ripe the close texture peculiar to new Potatos 
is retained indefinitely. 
Growers of Potatos occasionally meet with tubers that have 
assumed singular and fantastic forms. Illustration No. 21 shows 
one of these monstrosities of a very common^type. There is no 
need to multiply illustrations of the malformed specimens, for 
scarcely any two are alike. As a rule, they are forced out of 
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