. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Horticultural Division. 455 They keep well. The flesh is very yellow. When cooked, the flavor is rich and possesses a slight aroma which is not present in the common potatoes. The plants usually produce balls freely. This potato is, probably, the Solanum tuberosum var. boreale of Gray, although it has the interposed small leaflets which that plant is supposed to lack. It occurs in a wild staite from the Montezuma valley, Ck)lorado, to New Mexico, southwa
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Horticultural Division. 455 They keep well. The flesh is very yellow. When cooked, the flavor is rich and possesses a slight aroma which is not present in the common potatoes. The plants usually produce balls freely. This potato is, probably, the Solanum tuberosum var. boreale of Gray, although it has the interposed small leaflets which that plant is supposed to lack. It occurs in a wild staite from the Montezuma valley, Ck)lorado, to New Mexico, southwards in the mountains in Mexico. This wild potato of the north appears to have been first brought to notice in by Dr. A. J. Myers, of the Ignited States army, who found it in western Texas. He. Mexican Wild Potato. sent specimens to Asa Gray, who named it Solanum Fendleri, in honor of Augustus Fendler, an early botanical explorer of the southwest. Dr. Gray afterwards considered it to be only a geographical variety of the potato and renamed it Solanum tuberosum var. boreale. The account of the plant as seen by Dr. Myers, contains the following reference to the tubers: "The tubers, though small, being rarely as large as a hickory-nut, have been gathered, cooked and eaten by officers and soldiers, and they proved both palatable and ; This plant was grown in 1888 by the Colorado Experiment Station from wild Colorado tubers. The tubers under cultivation were " quite large relat-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University
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