International Kidney

Extra good crop, very large tubers, and of fair average quality.

Covent Garden Market

Very good crop, tubers a nice size for table, and very good when cooked a first-rate potato.

American Bread-Fruit

Extra good crop, very large tubers, but of good form not first-rate, however, when cooked.

Prince Of Teck

In every respect very bad discarded.

Mona's Pride

A well-known variety, good crop of fair-sized tubers, and very good to eat.

Snowflake

This variety, though generally classed with Kidneys, should, I think, be in another class altogether, being more flattish than kidney-shaped. A very fine crop of large tubers, and excellent to eat.

Jackson's Kidney

Crop poor with me but a neighbouring gardener tells me it was about the best cropper he had: neither was it good when cooked, so I have discarded it.

Myatt's Ash-Leaf

Too well known to need much commendation: in every respect one of the best of its class.

Early Sandringham

A fine crop of large tubers, very like, and quite equal to, Myatt's, though slightly different in flavour.

Lapstone Kidney

Good crop of fair-sized tubers, flavour good, flesh firm, but not a mealy Potato.

Sutton's Prolific

Very large crop, tubers of fair size, but only second-class to eat.

Magnum Bonum

An extraordinary cropper, and tubers of splendid size and form. This variety was planted a long time after the other - in fact, very late - but was grown on a very rich piece of ground. I weighed the produce of almost every shaw as I lifted them, and found them to range from 5 lb. up to 9 lb. It is also of very fine quality when cooked, and has remained quite free from disease. Altogether this is perhaps the best Potato of recent introduction.

Red Kidney Section

Early Sovereign

Good crop, fair size, not good to eat.

Early Vermont

Very good crop of large tubers soapy, but of good flavour.

Late Hose

Good crop of large tubers fairly good when cooked.

Wonderful

A well-named variety; crop averaged thirty tubers to the shaw. The produce of ten shaws, taken in the order of lifting, weighed a little over 56 lb. Tubers of fair size, and very good to eat.

Bountiful

Similar in appearance to Wonderful, but of somewhat deeper colour; a good crop, medium size, and of fair average quality.

Ruby

Fair crop, average size, and of pretty good flavour.

Round Section (White)

Schoolmaster

Fair crop of large tubers, good when cooked; slightly diseased.

Model

Large tubers, but in every other respect very bad discarded.

Porter's Excelsior

Good crop of finely - formed tubers; very good when cooked - an excellent Potato.

Thorburn's Early Paragon is a paragon of badness discarded.

Alpha

Bad in every respect; also discarded.

Eureka

Fair crop, tubers large, and of fair quality.

American Early

Fair crop of good-sized tubers, and of very good quality.

Giant King

Fair crop, large tubers, but very bad to eat; discarded.

Climax

Good crop of nice-sized tubers, and of very good quality; a fine table Potato.

Coldstream Early

Fair crop, large tubers, and of very good quality.

Oxford Early

Good crop of nice-sized tubers. This I consider about the best early round white Potato I have got, and in all respects, perhaps, one of the best in cultivation. I have grown it for years.

Fenn's Early Market

Good crop, large tubers, good to eat, but badly diseased seems too tender for this soil, but might have been better if it had been taken up earlier.

Daintree's Early

Middling crop, badly diseased discarded.

Dalmahoy

Good crop, large tubers, very good to eat, but slightly diseased.

Rintoul's White Don

A good crop of large tubers, and of good quality.

Round Coloured Section

Fortyfold

A good crop of moderately.sized tubers, always welcome at table.

New Rose-End

Fair crop, large tubers, but inferior when cooked, and diseased.

Rintoul's Striped Don

Large crop, good-sized tubers, and of very good quality.

Nisbet's Don

Fair crop, medium-sized tubers, and very good when cooked.

Red-Shin Flour-Ball

Bad crop, badly diseased, and not good to eat; discarded.

All of the above, excepting those specified, were free from disease when lifted. I had those which I put away for seed looked over and examined about the end of October. The following list remained free from disease - viz., New Rose-end, Magnum Bonum, Early Sandringham, Oxford Early, Rintoul's White Don, Myatt's Ash-leaf, Ruby, Wonderful, Climax, Sutton's Prolific. The following were slightly diseased - viz., Coldstream Early, Porter's Excelsior, Snowflake, Fenn's Early Market, Nisbet's Don, American Bread-fruit, Covent Garden Market, American Early, and Schoolmaster. Those badly diseased as follows - viz., Fortyfold, Rintoul's Striped Don, Dalmahoy, Early Sovereign, Eureka, Bountiful, Early Vermont, Late Rose, International Kidney, and Red-skin Flour-ball. I hardly expect to be able to save any sets for planting of some varieties in the last-named section.

J. G. W.