At 07:13 1999-10-06 -0700, Patty wrote:

>peasants grow many different types of potato.  They come in an
>astounding variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, even black, mostly
>quite small.

If You grow potato seed You get a varity of potatoe "types", wich
actually are just new individuals, when You plant a potatoe You
get more tubers of the same "individual". Growing with seeds is
usual in all poor areas, as You need to eat all potatoes and can
not save any for planting.

- Hans