. The book of the garden. Gardening. ESCULENT-ROOTED PLANTS.âTHE POTATO. 221 " Seelc-7io-fmiher.âStem compact and bushy, about 14 feet high; tuber round; colour white, rough, and slightly netted; mealy, good flavour, and healthy. " Smith's yellow Peruvian.âTubers rather un- der the medium size; roundish, or slightly elon- gated, with numerous deeply-sunk eyes, and of a yellowish-white colour. This is a healthy- growing and superior late sort, having a peculiar yellow-coloured flesh; received from its native country, Peru. " Tall American early.âStem strong and pretty upright, ab
. The book of the garden. Gardening. ESCULENT-ROOTED PLANTS.âTHE POTATO. 221 " Seelc-7io-fmiher.âStem compact and bushy, about 14 feet high; tuber round; colour white, rough, and slightly netted; mealy, good flavour, and healthy. " Smith's yellow Peruvian.âTubers rather un- der the medium size; roundish, or slightly elon- gated, with numerous deeply-sunk eyes, and of a yellowish-white colour. This is a healthy- growing and superior late sort, having a peculiar yellow-coloured flesh; received from its native country, Peru. " Tall American early.âStem strong and pretty upright, about 2 feet high; tuber flat- tened; colour very white, and rough; mealy, good flavour, and very healthy. " Taylor's forty-fold.âStemslenderandspread- ing, about IJ feet high; tuber oval, and much flattened; colour rough and dull reddish; mealy, superior flavour, and very healthy. " White Sutherland kidney.âStem very up- right and compact, about If feet high; tuber curved, fiat, and small towards the stalk; colour whitish, rough, and netted; mealy, good flavour, and ; The number of potatoes described in Messrs Lawsons' work is 17S; .-and as the whole have been grown in their extensive experimental grounds, and their conditions carefully recorded by competent persons, we consider their list as the best data in existence by which their respec- tive merits may be calculated. The garden va- rieties extend to fifty-eight in number, and from these our selection has been made. The nomenclature adopted above is-that by which the varieties of potato are best known in Scotland; but an examina- tion of the models of them, no w in the Botanical Museum in the Royal Gar- dens at Kew, will enable those inter- ested to recognise th& sorts, although presented to them under new names. Second earlies. â Early Shaw, or Shaves eoHy, a variety grown exten- sively by the London market-garden- ers for forcing, to come to market in May. It is, for an early sort, a large
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