84 GARDENING 



be fresh and quick, and the purest sulphate of 

 copper, and well mixed. Give one dressing before 

 the disease appears at all on the foliage, about the 

 first or second week of July, and a second one three 

 weeks later. 



Some of the best kinds to grow are — 



Myatt's Ash Leaf Kidney — a fine old variety 

 and early. 



Early Rose— early and abundant. 



Beauty of Hebrew — early and heavy cropper. 



White Elephant — second enormous cropper. 



Reading Giant — main crop very fine and very 

 abundant cropper. 



Schoolmaster — main crop very fine. 



Rosette — late crop. 



Magnum Bonum — main crop. 



Scottish Beauty— late crop. 



Sutton's Masterpiece. 



Imperatum. 



Preserving Potatoes. — Plunge the tubers 

 before storing them away for ten hours in a 2 

 per cent, solution of commercial sulphuric acid 

 and water — 2 parts of acid to lOO parts of 

 water. The acid penetrates the eyes to a depth 

 of about one-fortieth of an inch, which serves to 

 destroy their sprouting power. It does not have 

 any appreciable effect on the skin of the potatoes. 

 After remaining in the liquid ten hours, the tubers 

 must be thoroughly dried before storing away. 

 The same liquid may be used any number of times 

 with equally good results. 



This process has been adopted by the French 

 Government for the preservation of the potatoes for 

 the army. 



