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In the Bot. Zeitung May 16 1868 Profr Hildebrand gives an account (with a coloured figure) of his experiments on two varieties found during the same season to be constant in character, namely a somewhat elongated rough skinned red potato and a rounded smooth white one. He inserted buds reciprocally into both kinds, destroying the other buds. He thus raised two plants and each of these produced a tuber intermediate in character between the parent forms. That from the red bud grafted into the white tuber was at one end red & rough as the whole tuber ought to have been if not affected: in the middle of it was smooth with red stripes, and at the other end smooth, altogether white like that of the stock — Animals & Plants 2nd Edit — Vol I Ch XI