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Show California Pottoe. The press has commented npon the shipment to California of eastern potatoes. pota-toes. These vegetables are very inferior to those grown here, for among our other excellent productions the California potato po-tato u peculiarly fine. It is mealy, and when grown to a large size is not cavernous cavern-ous in the middle, as is the case with nearly all large Eastern specimens. When VtAlrarl ff. Ana Tint, "fn.11" lit. nnra nnd awt. sad, bat stands up as light as a cream puff for a long time. The reason for the present importation of inferior potatoes is that tho rains last fall prevented the digging of the home crop in sufficient quantities to supply the market, and the same reason prevented the planting, which usually gives us new potatoes in abundance in February. Latest advices from the undug potato fields of 1889 are that the potatoes left in the ground are sprouting and springing tip, and the farmers are busy cultivating this self planted crop. California will, before many years, be a large exporter of potatoes, pota-toes, in competition with the Bermudas, to supply the east in the apring, when the supply grown in that section is wilted, wilt-ed, sprouted and about as appetizing as old bootheels. San Francisco Alta. |