THE GARDENING WORLD 
39 
January 19, 1907- 
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Ueal ?oU\o. 
“The Potato Year Book" for 1907 has 
been on our table for some time, and we 
note an article on “The Ideal Potato,’’ by 
the late secretary, Mr. W. P. Wright. The 
combination he would like to see is 
heavy cropping capabilities, good cooking 
quality, disease-resisting capabilities, and 
size. Any of these properties may be 
found in one or other variety, but not 
combined in any one. Many of the 
Potatos already grown are indeed far too 
large to cook properly for table purposes. 
To boil such tubers takes a long time to 
soften them to the core without cutting 
them, and that, in our opinion, spoils their 
flavour. By relatively close planting, 
however, the size of the tubers could be 
-regulated to fit them for table purposes. 
All the other properties above mentioned 
are certainly desirable. 
Some facts which he has ascertained 
concerning existing varieties are worth 
bearing in mind. The best six cooking 
Potatos areFactor, Golden Wonder, Lang¬ 
worthy, Peacemaker, Up-to-date, and 
Windsor Castle. Factor is also very pro¬ 
ductive, but the three following ones 
neither crop heavily nor produce large 
tubers. The writer thinks that Up-to- 
date and Windsor Castle have seen their 
best days as disease resisters, There is 
a great diversity of opinion upon this 
point, especially in the case of Up-to- 
date, of which some people still succeed 
in getting satisfactory crops of useful 
tubers. Evergood and Sutton's Dis¬ 
covery are considered to be disease-proof, 
and in wet seasons they would undoubtedly 
prove valuable. 
Elwes’ Snowdrop Galar.thus Elwesiil. 
ELWES’ 
S NOWDROP 
(Galanthus Elwesii) 
Those who have not hitherto grown 
this handsome Snowdrop will be able to 
distinguish it from the common one by 
comparison with the figure on p. 7. In 
the first place the flowers of G. Elwesii 
are very much larger than those of the 
common Snowdrop, and are otherwise dis¬ 
tinguished by the green markings on the 
inner segments. On the outer face of 
these short segments the large black 
patch is of a deep green in the living 
plants. In the common Snowdrop only 
the two small green spots at the end of 
the segments are present. 
The reader will also note that there are 
differences even amongst the flowers of 
Elwesii. Some of them have very lpng 
segments inclined to be pointed.' while 
others have shorter and more nearly 
globular flowers in the bud state, while 
the segments are blunt and rounded. 
These forms are very frequent amongst 
imported bulbs. Occasionally the name 
G. E. unguiculatus is given to those forms 
having rather iarge segments with a long 
claw at the base, but few, e'xcept the 
specialists, observe these distinctions. 
G. Elwesii usually commences flowering 
in February, and may even pass out of 
flower- during that month or continue the 
displav through March. This, of course, 
is entirely dependent upon the nature of 
the winter, whether mild or otherwise. An 
interesting point to know about this fine 
species is that it may be naturalised in the 
garden like the common one. This has 
been the experience at Kew, while most 
of the other introductions are liable to 
dwindle awav and die in the course of a 
few years. Not so with tire plant under 
notice, which takes kindly to our climate 
and maintains its position for many years. 
