DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF POTATOES. 
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bourhood from which it is named. There is 
no better eaten. 
The Cornwall. Kidney is a variety with a 
tuber small and sharp-pointed next the stalk, 
but swelling to a good size at the nose, with 
a smooth white skin. A sort largely grown 
in the county of Cornwall for the early supply 
of the London market. 
Chapman's Early Kidney. — A variety 
which will bear late planting and taking up 
all the winter and spring as new potatoes ; and 
if planted in July, dug in November, and well 
stored in pits, will be equally good. It is 
tender, of excellent flavour, and has a delicate 
skin. They cannot be distinguished from new 
potatoes by their appearance, and even in the 
eating, only by being drier and better than 
those under glass. 
LATE VARIETIES. 
The Champion has broad, rough foliage, and 
round, rather full-sized tubers, with duepish 
eyes. A good field variety, but old. 
The Old Flat White has large foliage, with 
oblong, flattened tubers, and smooth skin. 
Flavour very good. 
The White Bread-fruit has light-coloured, 
" hish foliage, roundish white-skinned 
tubers, of good flavour, very prolific, and keeps 
well. 
The Early Field Kidney, with deep-green 
foliage, flattish tubers, swelling gradually from 
the stalk. A moderate field variety. 
The Albany Kidney has a great deal of 
broad foliage, and large, curved, and flattish 
tubers. An excellent sort, of superior flavour. 
Edinburgh Donx, with pale foliage, and 
round tubers, having purple eyes. A good 
variety. 
The Blue Dons have a darker foliage than 
the last, and with similar tubers to the last in 
. but of a dull purple colour. 
The Devonshire Apple has rather tall foli- 
B e, with large round pink-eyed tubers, of a 
good flavour. A good and prolific sort, 
one of the very best late keepers. 
The Irish Apple has deep green foliage, 
with roundish tubers, much hollowed at the 
nds, and reddish eyes. A good variety, and 
has been long in cultivation in Ireland. 
The Black .1 iiiirirun P ink-Eye hn^ darkish 
hick foliage, and roundish tubers, with red 
Byes. Of good flavour, very prolific, and an 
excellent keeper. 
The Cork Red has dark green foliage, with 
d tubers, of a reddish" colour. 
A good-flavoured mealy variety. 
The Perthshire Red has light-coloured 
Sliage, with rather oblong flattish red tubers, 
f good flavour. A highly esteemed sort. 
The Pour Man's Profit grows close in its 
Ibliic'v, with round tubers, of a dark reddish 
colour. Of superior flavour, and much grown 
in some localities. 
The Red Bread-fruit has light coloured 
foliage, with roundish flat red tubers, which 
cook mealy, and are very good-flavoured. 
The Red-nosed Kidney has light green 
foliage, with large, long, rather bent tubers, 
with red eyes. A very desirable variety. 
The Bedfordshire Kidney has rough lightish 
coloured foliage, and long, large, straight tubers, 
of a reddish colour, and good flavour. 
Irish Lumpers have dark green foliage, and 
large roundish flattened tubers, with a rough 
white skin. An indifferent variety, but very 
large, and very prolific. 
The Irish Cup has upright deep green 
foliage, and large uneven shaped tubers, of a 
dull reddish colour. A good flavoured Irish 
variety. 
Connaught Cups have a considerable quan- 
tity of large foliage, with oblong reddish 
tubers, of good quality. A large and good 
sort. 
The Oxnoble has rough dark-coloured foli- 
age, with oblong flattened white tubers, of in- 
different quality. An old sort, but still much 
cultivated in some localities. 
The Kentish Seedling Goldfinder has pale 
foliage, and round white tubers, with rather 
deep eyes. Of good flavour, and prolific. 
The Goldfinder has light green foliage, and 
roundish white tubers. Is rather earlier, but 
not so highly esteemed as the last. 
The Sheep's Tail Kidney has dark green 
foliage, and thick long flattish tubers, white- 
skinned, and good-flavoured. A handsome 
root, and rather early. 
The Regent has tubers of a roundish shape, 
rather smaller at the nose, or that end where 
the most eyes are placed. It is of vigorous 
growth, productive, and of good quality. 
The Leathcrcoat has large foliage, and a 
roundish flattened tuber, and is a productive 
ami good-flavoured sort, and also a good 
keeper. 
The Mangold-Wurtzel Potato has very 
strong growing stems, and large long tubers, 
of a pale red colour. 
The Prince de Roltan Potato has very 
strong-growing dark green foliage, and large 
round red tubers, with the eyes very deeply 
sunk. This and the last are very produc- 
tive varieties, but require a great deal of 
room. 
As a selection from the. foregoing list, the 
following will comprise all the varieties neces- 
sary for ordinary purposes. 
FOE kakly FORCING. 
The Ash-leaved Kidney, the Early Frame, 
the Early Betty, Soden'a Early Oxford, and 
( lhapman's Marly Kidney. 
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