THE GARDENS OF KEW: THE WORK OF KEW GARDENS IN WARTIME, SURREY, ENGLAND, UK, 1943 - Mr Campbell (right), Curator of the Gardens, examines potato crops as they are lifted by a gardener. These potatoes have been grown experimentally, at the behest of the Ministry of Food, using a chip from a seed potato, rather than the whole thing. According to the original caption, crops using this method were better than those grown normally and "seed prepared at Kew is flown to Malta, Cyprus and Palestine to replace supplies cut off by war"

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