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been obtained from beneath stages in the glasshouses, and 

 from boxes. Underground cellars would be capital places 

 for their culture. 



Good Flavoured Tubers. I am quite sure all who 

 may adopt this system of potato culture will be delighted 

 with the results. Windsor Castle is the only variety I 

 have tried ; probably other maincrop or late varieties would 

 do as well. In all cases, large, firm tubers should be 

 selected. I much prefer the young potatoes grown as I 

 have described to those early forced in the usual way. 

 They are less close and waxy." 



CHAPTER XIV. 



LIFTING, PACKING, AND MARKETING. 



WHEN field crops of potatoes are to be marketed imme- 

 diately after raising, as is the case with most early and 

 second early crops, it is best to sort, weigh, and pack them 

 in the field, as this reduces labour, and involves the least 

 damage from moving and shaking about % Early potatoes, 

 especially, are very tender, the skins rubbing off quite 

 easily; so the less they are handled and shifted about 

 before being finally packed the better. 



Lifting; the Crop. Where there is a large area of 

 potatoes to be harvested, it is quite worth while to use a 

 potato plough of some sort to do the work of lifting, as 

 this makes a great saving of time and labour. Particulars 

 of such implements will be found in the chapter on " Im- 



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