. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. n inone season. Seed Potatoes.—It is a very common practice for the northernstates to supply southern growers with seed potatoes. To someextent this practice is founded upon a false belief that southerngrown seed potatoes are not so productive. Probably anothercause for this practice is poor storage facilities in southern kept over winter under unfavorable conditions
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. n inone season. Seed Potatoes.—It is a very common practice for the northernstates to supply southern growers with seed potatoes. To someextent this practice is founded upon a false belief that southerngrown seed potatoes are not so productive. Probably anothercause for this practice is poor storage facilities in southern kept over winter under unfavorable conditions may rotor sprout too soon. Cold storage facilities rather tend to remedythis difficulty. In northern latitudes seed potatoes are kept over from the pre-ceding year and are seldom shipped from cold storage may be stored in cellars free from frost. In an earlier chaptermethods of improving seed potatoes have been described. RATE OF PLANTING 135 Cutting Seed Potatoes.—Under Propagation by Tubers, amethod of cutting potatoes through the stem-end and eye-end intolong fingers has been described. It is quite common to cut pota-toes into pieces containing one or two eyes or buds. When seed Fig.
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