158 Alarket Gai^de7iing. 



mercial fertilizers have given us much the smoothest 

 crop. Whatever manuring is applied should, as a rule, 

 be put on broadcast. On some lands, exceptionally 

 light and dry, level culture may prove the best ; but 

 we have succeeded better by a moderate hilling up. 

 This seems to keep the land light and friable. Make 

 the cultivator and shovel-plough do all the hilling, and 

 most of the hoeinsr. 



Beauty of Hebron. 



The selection and cutting of seed are important 

 points. We recommend medium sized tubers, cut to 

 one eye. The tuber itself is not a seed, but merely an 

 enlargement of the underground stem, and in plant- 

 ing tubers, either entire or cut, we are putting in (not 

 seeds but) slips or cuttings, in which size is not essen- 

 tial ; but probably it is better, as a rule, to use good- 

 shaped medium sized ones. 



In a potato tuber held stem end down, it may be 

 seen that the eyes are arranged in regular ascending 

 rotation. for advantageously dividing it to single 



