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Show "Irish" Potatoes Unknown in Ireland. "We :peak in this country of tli Irish potato," remarked U. O. Conner, Con-ner, a native of Ireland, at the Kn-leigh. Kn-leigh. "Nobody in Ireland would know what is meant by an 'Irish' potato-There potato-There are five distinct varieties of piv tato in Ireland the Champion, which is the potato we call in America tiw Irish potato; the White Kock, the Leather Coat aud the Skerry, which Is a cross between the so-called Irish Potato Po-tato and Ihe yam." Washington Star. |