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Report on the Cultivation of Potatoes. 



statements, as to the protective influence of tan, sawdust, town- 

 sweepings, spent hops, &c., in the manure, and that of the growth 

 of another crop, such as turnips or beans, with the potatoes, may 

 also attract attention, though they command the assent of only a 

 few growers. 



The greater or less liability of different varieties to the attacks 

 of the disease is also a matter of interest, and I have, therefore, 

 had the replies to the questions under this head collated and 

 summarised in the following: Table : — 



Varieties grown (29). 



American Beds 

 American Rose 



Arrowsmith 



Baron's Perfection 

 Belgium Kidney . . 

 Bonnie Snowball . . 

 Captain White's Seconds 



Dalmahoys 



Falaroes 



Flukes 



Fox's Seedlings 



Gleuburgs 



Lapstones 



Leather Coats 

 Myatt's Early Kidney . . 

 Paterson's Victoria 

 Pink-Eyed Eadicals 



Protestants 



Rfed-Skin FlourbaUs .. 



Eegents 



Rocks 



Rough White .. .. 



Runcorn Kidneys . . 



Russian Balls 



Seedling Fluke 



Shaws 



Skerry Blues 



Walker's Regents . . 

 White Kemp 



Number of 



Growers who 



Report on 



each Sort. 



Considered 



least liable to 



Disease by, 



1 



6 

 1 

 4 

 1 

 1 

 1 



24 

 4 



26 

 3 

 1 



25 



57 



3 



1 



8 



66 



54 



2 



1 



2 



1 



5 



20 



6 



9 



2 

 11 

 21 



i 



4 



10 



19 



1 



1 



2 



1 



1 



15 



1 



Possibly the same sort of potato may figure in this Table 

 under more than one name, but, in that case, the reader must 

 forgive my ignorance of potato-synonymy, and add the duplicate 

 lines together to obtain the required total result. 



All the information I have been able to collect on the subject 

 is contained in these pages, and, as I have already stated, they 

 seem to me indications — in plain language, finger-posts — of 

 sufficient importance to induce us to explore the path to which 

 they point. 



