About a dozen years ago, while I was engaged in fruit growing and market gardening in Northern Indiana, a new variety of sweet potatoes was announced in the papers and heralded as a wonderful acquisition. It was called the Southern Queen, and wishing to test, it we procured a few plants. The second season, frost held off quite late in the fall, and one. hill which had grown with unusual vigor and luxuriance, put out several blossoms at the ends of the vines.

Coming to this place in November, 1883, I found, within a week, sweet potato blossoms, and every fall I see more or less of them. These flowers are only found on vines of one variety, called here the the White West Indias. The flowers, leaves and potatoes are so much like the variety grown at the North as Southern Queen, that I feel quite confident that they are identical. Switzerland, Florida.