AMERICAN VARIETIES OF SWEET POTATOES 
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Big-Stem Jersey section contains the following varieties: 
(1) Big-Stem Jersey, sometimes called Florida and improved Big Stem. 
(2) Philipili. 
yellow Jersey section has vines thai are very small and slender to mod- 
Large in growth, long, 6 to 12 feel ; stems slender, often fasciated. Roots 
yellow, smooth and regular, or with low veins, fusiform or globular In 
small to medium in size, season medium; flesh light yellow to salmon. 
baked, usually very dry ;ind mealy and unite firm in texture. 
Yellow Jersey section contains the following varieties: 
i l i Yellow Jersey. (Other names given to tins variety or selections of it 
are the following: Early Bloomer Nansemond, Big Leaf, Early Caro- 
lina, Early Yellow Jersey. Kelly's. McCoy's Sweets, Red Nose, Nanse- 
mond. Yellow Nansemond, Up River, Cedarville.) 
(2) Gold Skin. 
LIST OF VARIETIES INCLUDED IN THE KEY. 
Jersey 
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Belmont _ 
Big-Stem 
Bunch C; 
Creola 
Dahomey : 
Dooley 
Eclipse Sugar " yam *' 
Florida 
General Grant Vineless 
Gold Skin 
Gros Grandia 
Japan Brown 
Key West " yam " 
Koali 
Minuet " yam " 
Nancy Hall 
Norton 
Old-Time "yam " 
Philipili 
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Porto Rico 
Pumpkin " yam " 
Purple "yam " or Nigger Choker 
Red Bermuda 
Red Brazil 
Red Jersey 
Red Spanish 
Shanghai 
Southern Queen 
Ticotea 
Triumph 
Vineland Bush 
Vineless Pumpkin " yam " 
White Gilke 
White Sealy 
White " yam " 
Yellow Jersey 
Yellow Spanish 
Yellow Strasburg 
Yellow " yam " 
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DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES. 
TICOTEA. (TICOTEA GROUP.) 
Vines large and vigorous, long creeping, 6 to 12 feel : stems green or with 
a slight tinge of purple at the nodes, nearly smooth; leaves 5 to 7 parted, 
hairy only along the veins on the upper surface, green except for a deep- 
purple stain at the blade and the summit of the petiole, the latter otherwise 
green and hairy; roots white, smooth, and regular, usually very long and 
cylindrical in shape, medium to large in size, season very late; flesh white, 
but dull grayish white when baked, only slightly sweet, quite dry and mealy; 
firm in texture. 
This is not an important variety. 
KOALI. (TICOTEA GROUP.) 
Vines short and stocky ; steins green or with a purple tinge at the nodes, 
smooth or only slightly hairy at the nodes, coarse; leaves deeply 5 to T lobed; 
deep-purple stain at the base of the leaf blade, this purple coloring extending 
