Three or four years ago, when we tried over five dozen kinds of Potatoes, we felt rather sure of getting at least one dozen really good kinds out of them; but experience proves that we have been expecting too much. Since our first trial we have been weeding out the worst, and this year we find we must make further reductions. This is not so much owing to the bad quality of any kind, as to the ravages made by the disease. Good looks are always much sought after in the Potato, and the best-looking kinds I find are generally most liable to disease. International Kidney, for instance, is the finest-looking Potato of the kind in existence; but it is exceedingly poor in quality, and three parts of it always go with the disease. Woodstock Kidney, another beauty, merits the same character. In round varieties, Fenn's Onwards, Foxe's Improved Round, White and Red Emperor, and many others, are all of fine appearance; but they suffer so much from the disease, that they never pay for culture. The only kinds which have almost escaped with us, and which are well worth growing, are Sutton's Magnum Bonum, Scotch Champion, Turner's Schoolmaster, Hooper's Covent Garden Perfection, Wheeler's Gloucestershire Kidney, Mona's Pride, and the Improved Peach Blow. The Champion, Schoolmaster, and Peach Blow are rounds : the others are kidneys.

The kidneys are best for early use, Schoolmaster and Peach Blow may be used in autumn, Magnum Bonum in winter, and the Champion in spring.

J. Muir.