Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 189. — A Branch of a Vineless Sweet-potato crowded position of leaf-stems. (After Price.) and flavor, which may be either sirupy, mealy, or of these subdiWsions maj be further subdiWded into threegroups, according to whether the uncooked flesh is ^-ellow, white. Fig. 190. — Three of .Sweet-potato On left, cut-leaf type ; in center, shouldered leaf; and on right, entireor round 434 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS or mottled white and yellow. Each of these last subdivisionscan be still further s
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 189. — A Branch of a Vineless Sweet-potato crowded position of leaf-stems. (After Price.) and flavor, which may be either sirupy, mealy, or of these subdiWsions maj be further subdiWded into threegroups, according to whether the uncooked flesh is ^-ellow, white. Fig. 190. — Three of .Sweet-potato On left, cut-leaf type ; in center, shouldered leaf; and on right, entireor round 434 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS or mottled white and yellow. Each of these last subdivisionscan be still further separated into four divisions, according as theskin of the potato is white, yellowish, light red, or purple (darkreddish). If all of these classes should have representatives,there would be 144 different classes. However, the vinelesshas only a few subdivisions at the time when this is written. Examples of the bunch varieties are found in the severalstrains of vineless, which appear to differ somewhat in qualitjand yield. Among file varieties of the out-leaf type, with long vines,are the following. Sugar, or Yellow Yam, and its synonyms,all of which have a sirupy quality, but are relati-sely unproduc-tive ; the Spanish has cut leaves and a mealy texture. Among varieties having shouldered leaves is the Yellow Nan-semond which has a mealy tex
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