676 POTATO ROT. 



plant. The plant failed to produce its balls or seed, long be- 

 fore the root commenced to rot, and then the agriculturist 

 ought to have known that the plant was failing, and to have 

 renewed from the seeds of the wild plant, or the root from the 

 native country. The only matter of surprise is, that the plant 

 should so long have been propagated from the root. He is 

 fully convinced that the only true remedy is obtaining the 

 seed or root, in a wild state, from South America. 



WooLSEY, J. Wm,, (Quebec, L. C, has been informed, by one 

 who had tried it, that pulverized gypsum applied upon the po- 

 tato in the hill, before covering, was a sure remedy. 



