. Mills' garden annual : 1895. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. ILDEST EXISTING YARIETY OF POTATO IN IRELAND, OYER 150 YEARS OLD. The Gardeners1 Chronicle of February 13th, 1892, says: " All through the last century, and up to the famine times in the forties, there were some very fine vari- eties of potato in the south of Ireland, purely native raising, but whose growers names are now unknown. The most famous were Quarries and Mignons, the Ouarries being the chief food with the people during early summer and harvest; th
. Mills' garden annual : 1895. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. ILDEST EXISTING YARIETY OF POTATO IN IRELAND, OYER 150 YEARS OLD. The Gardeners1 Chronicle of February 13th, 1892, says: " All through the last century, and up to the famine times in the forties, there were some very fine vari- eties of potato in the south of Ireland, purely native raising, but whose growers names are now unknown. The most famous were Quarries and Mignons, the Ouarries being the chief food with the people during early summer and harvest; the Mignons, as a main crop, occupying tne same attention that the famous Scotch Champion does at present. We were told by a well-known grower, who sent some samples to us, that no better variety was grown during hxs time, and he can re- member Irish potatoes fifty-two years ago; and he knows that Quarries were in cultivation for 100 years previously. In fact, he asserts that Quarries' and 'Mig- nons' were the staple food of the Irish peasantry that formed the bone and sinew of Wellington's Irish troops. We understand that the quantity of seed is limited, and only last year the variety was re-discovered in a remote part of the County Cork, in possession of a small farmer, whose land consists of dry peat resting on limestone. He further states that at is the oldest known potato in Ireland at the present time. Some of the tubers, which we cooked in the usual manner—that is. peeled—were very heavy, close grained, slightly mealy outside and dry within. The flavor is that of boiled chestnuts, which was the more readily remarked as our new varieties are mostly ; (** They are a fine potato, and in America would take well with the Iriah^f or quality and for connection with their 4 Ould ;) W. B. H. LAST CENTURY'S POTATOES IN IRELAND. The Gardeners' Chronicle of March 12, 1893, in speaking of these potatoes again says: **I do not think there is one existin
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