te, and usually abortive; tubers red, or
garnet-colored, very large, roundish, and comparatively smooth and
regular; flesh white, dry, mealy, and, the size of the tuber considered,
remarkably well flavored. The variety is healthy, yields abundantly, is
greatly superior to the Peach-blow and kindred sorts for table use, and
might be profitably grown for farm-purposes. The plants survive till
destroyed by frost.

GILLYFLOWER.

Tubers large, oval, or oblong, flattened, white, and comparatively
smooth; flesh white, dry, and of fair quality. The plants are healthy,
and the variety is very productive: but it is inferior to many others
for table use; though its uniform good size, and its fair form, and
whiteness, make it attractive and salable in the market. It is similar
to, if not identical with, the St. Helena and the Laplander.

GREEN-TOP.

Plant strong and vigorous; flowers dull white, generally abortive;
tubers quite large, white, roundish, often irregular; eyes deep-set;
flesh white, comparatively dry, and well flavored. The variety is
productive, and of healthy, hardy habit; not early; the plants
continuing green till destroyed by frost. Introduced.

HILL'S EARLY.

An old variety, very little, if at all, earlier than the White Chenango.
Quality not much above mediocrity; its chief recommendation being its
earliness. Skin and flesh yellowish-white; eyes rather deeply sunk; size
medium; form roundish; moderately productive. It does not ordinarily
cook dry and mealy; and, though desirable as an early potato for a
limited space in the garden, cannot be recommended for general
cultivation.

IRISH CUPS.

Tubers nearly round, yellowish-white; eyes deep-set; flesh yellow, and
strong flavored when cooked. Unfit for table use.

Aside from the difference in form, the variety somewhat resembles the
Rohan.

JACKSON WHITE.

This comparatively new but very excellent variety originated in Maine;
and is supposed to be a seedling from the celebrated Carter, which it
much resembles. Tubers yellowish-white, varying in size from medium to
large; form somewhat irregular, but generally roundish, though sometimes
oblong and a little flattened; eyes rather numerous, and deeply sunk;
flesh perfectly white when cooked, remarkably dry, mealy, farinaceous,
and well flavored.

The variety unquestionably attains its greatest perfection when grown in
Maine, or the northern sections of Vermont and New Hampshire; but is
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