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Banbury Onions, Reading Exhibition Sprouts, Excelsior Tomatoes, 
and Intermediate Carrots. 
POTATOES. 
Eleven collections of twenty-four varieties of Potatoes were staged, 
the list of exhibitors including many of the leading Potato growers. 
Mr. J. Millen, gardener to the Marquis of Donegal, Hampstead Park, 
Newbury, staged a very even clean lot of tubers, and was rightly 
awarded the first prize. The varieties consisted of Porter’s Excelsior, 
Washington, Magnum Bonum, Schoolmaster, Late Rose, Mona’s Pride, 
Covent Garden Perfection, Triumph, International, Beauty of Hebron, 
Red Emperor, Beauty of Kent, St. Patrick, Yicar of Laleham, Snow¬ 
flake, Lye’s Favourite, Pride of Ontario, Purple Ashleaf, Woodstock 
Kidney, Penn’s Bountiful, Radstock Beauty, Heather Bell, Suttons’ 
Fig. 34.—DESDItOBIUM SPLEXDIDISSIMUJT. (See page SOD.) 
Fillbasket, and Trophy. Mr. D. Lumsden, gardener to Lady M. 
Hamilton, Bloxholm Hall, followed with, among others, good ex¬ 
amples of Prince Arthur. International Kidney, Scotch Blue, School¬ 
master, Edgcott Seedling, and Washington. The third prize was 
awarded to Mr. W. Kerr, Dumfries, with a creditable but over-polished 
collection. There were twenty-three collections of eighteen varieties 
of Potatoes, and Mr. Millen was again the most successful exhibitor ; 
but his best tubers were undoubtedly in the larger collection. The 
varieties consisted of Covent Garden Perfection, Garibaldi, Beauty 
of Kent, Favourite, Early Bird, Pride of Ontario, International, 
Salmon Kidney, Reading Abbey, Late Rose, Schoolmaster, Trophy, 
Magnum Bonum, Vicar of Laleham, Beauty of Hebron, Snowflake, 
and Radstock Beauty. Mr. McKinlay, Headley Lodge, Penge, 
was a close second, his dishes of Sheibourne, Beauty of Hebron, 
