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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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both showyand pleasing, as the colour is distinct from that ofother varieties; the plant is of easy culture. W. D. A NEW BLACK-SKINNED POTATO.—I encloseyou a cutting from the Annandale Observer of the2nd inst., on the subject of the probable introductionof a new Potato, a black one, coming to us from theEast. This was referred to about a fortnight ago, ifI recollect right, in two of the London eveningpapers—the Echo was one, I forget the other. WhenI was a boy at school, at Welling, in Kent, underthe Rev. Stephen Tucker, and afterwards under hisson, Mr. Stephen Tucker, there was a blackPotato, so called, in daily use for a part of theyear. It was really a very dark purple skin, thecolour of the darkest purple kind of the Solanum Me-longena, or Aubergine—the Bringal of Bengal. Itwas a fairly dark purple right through, the colourgetting ligher towards the centre, but decidedly a paleblue there It was a very mep.ly Potato, and very highly (The Gardeners Chronicle, October 10, 1891.
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Fig. 56.—helenium aetumnale, flowers clear yellow, natuhal sue. 434 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (October 10, 1891. appreciated. The Potato-pits were separated fromthe boys gardens by a quickset hedge; but, in spiteof that, on a dark winter afternoon, adventurousspirits would make a raid on the black pits, toroast them in the schoolroom grate in play hours.The white Potatos were never attacked. Thelegend about these was, that they were im-ported by, or sent to, a gentleman named Friend,or Frend (at this distance of time I forget the correctspelling of his name), who lived in the neighbour-hood of Tavistock Square, and had business rela-tions with South America, from whence he got them.On looking closer at the extract, it will be seen thatZululand is hardly what we understand by the East,though in the Eastern hemisphere. When I was onleave from India in 1860-61, Mr. Stephen Tuckerwas alive, and I tried to trace the Potato so as toget some seed, but they had died out with him andhe couid

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