American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . to tell where to begin. The treesshould be watched early in the season, and ifonly a few are affected we should cut themdown, but this should be done before the fungusgets old enough to propagate itself. To knowexactly what is best, to do to prevent its spreadone must study its appearance on the spot. Growing of the Potato from Cuttings. BY PETER IIENDE1ISON, BERGEH elTY, X. J. About the first of last April, I steppedinto the store of B. K. Bliss & Son, and in-nocently asked for 10 lbs. of the Early RosePotato, which he bad offered i
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . to tell where to begin. The treesshould be watched early in the season, and ifonly a few are affected we should cut themdown, but this should be done before the fungusgets old enough to propagate itself. To knowexactly what is best, to do to prevent its spreadone must study its appearance on the spot. Growing of the Potato from Cuttings. BY PETER IIENDE1ISON, BERGEH elTY, X. J. About the first of last April, I steppedinto the store of B. K. Bliss & Son, and in-nocently asked for 10 lbs. of the Early RosePotato, which he bad offered in his adver-tisements at the modest price of $2 per lb. informed me with all suavity that he couldnot let me have 10 lbs., but would (here helooked patronizingly) let me have half thatquantity. I had agreed to let a friend have 5lbs. of this famous Potato, and had intendedthe other 5 lbs. for my own planting, but beingthe possessor of only $10 worth (5 lbs.), I ofcourse handed them over to my friend who haddeputed me to buy. He in turn handed me. I 1.—POTATO CUTTING. back one of the precious tubers—weighing ex-actly 4 oz.,— which be requested me to experi-ment with. Now, whether it was the patron-izing manner of my illustrious rival, or whetherit was the suspicion of a covert joke made bymy friend when he handed me this small pota-to to experiment with, I do not. know, butan experiment was begun. On the 6th of April,I cut this 4oz. Potato in two pieces, so that eachsurface would present the greatest number ofeyes. I then placed them on the soil of one ofour green-house benches, keeping them entirelydry until the cut part bad healed over, and theshoots began to start from the eyes—the tempera-ture of the green-house averaging perhaps 70degrees. As soon as the shoots got to be 4 or 5inches in length, they were cut off, as in figure1, about i of an inch from the surface of the po-tato, or far enough off so as not to injure thelatent eyes that were yet to start. The c
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