POTATO IMPLEMENTS, ETC 



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Heaviest yield from 1 Ib. of Eldorado potatoes was 

 43 cwt. 



In 1875 it is recorded that a Kentish gardener reared 

 647lb. of tubers from lib. of cut tubers of the variety 

 Eureka. 



Potatoes may be propagated by grafting a portion of 

 a tuber of one variety on to that of another. All the 

 eyes must be removed from the tuber which is to be used 

 as the stock. Out of this tuber cut a wedge-shaped slice, 

 then cut a piece of exactly the same size, furnished with 

 one good shoot an inch or so long, and fit this into the 

 wedge-like cleft. See that the rinds fit exactly, and then 

 bind firmly with bass matting and plant in the soil at 

 once. If a coloured tuber be grafted on a white one, the 

 yield will include both coloured and white, as well as mot- 

 tled tubers. The old variety Yorkshire Hero was said to 

 be reared in this way. 



A tomato shoot may be grafted on the shoot of a 

 potato, and vice versa. In the latter case tubers will be 

 borne in the axils of the leaves in the air, and not in the 

 soil as usual. 



SOIL CULTIVATION. 



