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cultivated on this plan have been most productive, and in years 

 when disease has prevailed, potatoes from ridges have been, gene- 

 rally speaking, clean and good. 



9. Potatoes ox Tiles. — There is no tile specially made for the 

 purpose. Those we use are eighteen inches wide and four inches 

 deep, and in shape like a shallow box, placed bottom upwards, 

 thus : — 



A row of these tiles is placed so as to form a continuous tunnel, the 

 potatoes are laid on the tiles, and covered with earth full seven 

 inches deep, and sloping down to trenches, in which, as in the last 

 practice, celery is grown. In a wet season, the tile system answers 

 well, the crops being heavy and good. In 1868, a season of drought, 

 our crop on the tiles was not so large as usual. 



10. Sorts. — It is difficult to select out of about 300 sorts that 

 have been carefully tested here. Instead of searching throiigh the 

 records of the experimental, I will take a trade catalogue, and select 

 a few that will probably suit a majority of cultivators everywhere. 



Early Garden Sorts. — Sutton's Racehorse, K. ; Smith's Early, R. 



Second Early and Late Garden Sorts. — Dalmahoy, R. ; Flour- 

 ball, R. ; Baron's Perfection, K. ; Wheeier's Milky White, K. ; 

 Paterson's Victoria, R. 



Second-rate productive Sorts for allotment and Field Culture. — 

 Skerry Blue, "White Rock, Walker's Regent. S. H. 



CULTIVATION OF THE CLIANTHUS DAMPIERL 



BY GEOEGE GEAY, 

 Gardener to W. Ilardman, Esq., Norbiton Hall, Eingston-on-Thames. 



i]S I have been very successful in flowering and seeding 

 this beautiful plant, I feel constrained to offer a few 

 suggestions upon its culture, as its management is as 

 yet but imperfectly understood. There can be no doubt 

 about its being more difficult to manage than a Coleus ; 

 but, for all that, it is very simple in its habits, and I shall be able 

 to tell the whole routine treatment in a very few words. Some two 

 or three years back, my employer had some seeds sent him from 

 abroad ; and, as I had hitherto seen little else but failures in grow- 

 ing it, I was determined to pay a little extra attention, just to see 

 what could be done ; and I was agreeably surprised to find that all 

 required was what I shall term ordinary common-sense manage- 



