flavored, and suffers
comparatively little from disease. It is also very productive, and a
good early sort for the garden; but not well adapted for field culture,
or for cultivation for agricultural purposes.

TOLON.

Plant quite low and dwarf, decaying with the season; flowers
lilac-purple, large and handsome, generally abortive; tubers of medium
size, roundish, of a pink or reddish color; flesh yellow, dry, but not
of so mild a flavor as many of the more recent kinds. Moderately
productive. Introduced.

VERMONT WHITE.

A very fair and good-sized but poor variety, grown to a considerable
extent in the northern and more interior portions of New England. Color
white outside; but the flesh, when cooked, is yellow, soft, not dry, and
strong flavored. It is a strong grower, and very productive, but rots
badly. It commands only a low price in the market, on account of its
very inferior quality; and cannot be recommended for general
cultivation.

VETO, OR ABINGTON BLUE.

Tubers long, resembling in form those of the Long Red, and, like that
variety, often watery at the stem-end after being cooked; color blue or
purplish; flesh white; quality fair as a table potato.

This variety originally was remarkably productive, and at one period was
in very general cultivation; but now is rarely planted, as it is
extremely liable to disease, and rots badly.

WHITE CHENANGO.

Chenango. Mercer, of New York.

An old and familiar variety; at one period almost everywhere known, and
generally acknowledged as the best of all varieties. As a potato for
early planting, whether for family use or for the market, it was a
general favorite; but, within a few years past, it has not only greatly
deteriorated in quality and productiveness, but has been peculiarly
liable to disease and premature decay of the plants. When well grown,
the tubers are of good size, rather long, slightly flattened, and
comparatively smooth; eyes slightly sunk; color white, with blotches of
purple,--before cooking, somewhat purple under the skin; flesh, when
cooked, often stained with pale purple; in its crude state, zoned with
bright purple. Quality good; dry, mealy, and well flavored.

The variety is considerably affected by the soil in which it may be
cultivated; in some localities, being much more colored than in others.
It is now rapidly giving place to new seedling varieties, quite as good
in quality, and more healthy and productive.

WHITE CUPS