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four advices: — 1. Select the best sorts obtainable, without any- 

 timid consideration of price, but do not for other than fancy pur- 

 poses pay fancy prices for sorts. 2. Plant early, say in February if 

 possible, but without fail in March, and if the tops are cut off b} r 

 frosts in May, take comfort that new tops will appear almost imme- 

 diately afterwards. 3. Take up just before the haulm is com- 

 pletely withered, as every day gained is something towards the 

 certain saving of the crop, and the roots are ripe before the haulm 

 is completely withered. 4. Select for sets perfect tubers, averaging 

 4 oz. to 6 oz. in weight, and give all the chats and mutilated 

 rubbish that are commonly used as '' seed " to the pigs. You may 

 think these advices fanciful, but carry them out with spirit, and 

 instead of some seven or eight tons per acre, you may harvest 

 fifteen to twenty, which will pay for extra cost and care. On our 

 heavy land we obtain twenty tons per acre in a good season, and 

 none at all (without tiles) in a bad one. 



A SELECTION OP POTATOES OP THE PINEST QUALITY IN THEIR 

 SEVERAL CLASSES. 



Early Kidneys. — Veitch's Prolific Ashleaf, Royal Ashleaf, 

 Sutton's Racehorse, Sandringham. 



Early Rounds. — "Williams's Victoria, Smith's Early, or Cold- 

 stream, Early Cockney, Early Goodrich. 



Second Early Kidneys. — Mona's Pride, Huigh's Kidney, 

 Erin's Queen, Yorkshire Hero. 



Second Early Rounds. — Daintree's Early, King of Potatoes, 

 Milky White, Early Pink-eyed Kemp. 



Main Crop Kidneys. — Webb's Imperial, Sutton's Berkshire 

 Kidney, Belgian Eluke, Prince of Wales's Kidney, Red Ashleaf. 



Main Crop Rounds. — Wood's Scarlet Prolific, Sutton's Red- 

 skin Elourball, Early Rose, Fortyfold, Wellington, Paterson's Vic- 

 toria, Bresee's Prolific. 



Market Potatoes. — Sutton's Redskin Elourball, Belgian 

 Fluke, Fortyfold, Skerry Blue, White Rock, Walker's Regent, 

 Paterson's Victoria, Red Regent, Webb's Imperial. 



S. H. 



A NOTE ON" WATERING FRUIT TREES IN WINTER. 



BY A KENTISH GARDENER. 



jiT was perhaps a surprise to many of the fruit-growing 

 readers of the Floral World to learn that the most 

 frequent cause of peach, nectarine, cherry, and other 

 fruit trees grown under glass, shedding their flower- 

 buds prematurely, is due to dryness at the roots when 

 they are at rest. It is a very common practice for inexperienced 

 cultivators to keep the inside borders of fruit-houses as dry as it is 

 possible to keep them during the period between the trees shedding 

 their leaves until they begin to make new growth in the^followiiv 

 spring ; hence the number of failures in the cultivation 'of indoor 



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