VEGETABLE PLANTS. 3! 



For raising plants, medium or small-sized 

 tubers are usually selected. As they require 

 a high temperature and dry atmosphere to 

 keep well over winter, it is difficult to succeed 

 in keeping them sound without having all the 

 appliances for making a special business of it, 

 and keeping in large quantities. The proper 

 temperature for successfully keeping them is 

 from fifty to sixty-five degrees. If exposed to 

 a temperature of only forty degrees, they will 

 be liable to rot, especially if not perfectly dry. 



On these accounts it is generally found the 

 best policy for northern growers who want but 

 a few bushels to purchase them, when wanted 

 in spring, of some one who makes a specialty 

 of keeping them. Mr. W. W. Rathbone, of 

 Marietta, Ohio, is in this business, and seed 

 from him will do well in every respect at the 

 north. 



The large potatoes to be found in our city 

 markets every fall and spring are not fit for 

 seed for northern planting, for two reasons : 

 first, they are too large and contain too few 

 eyes ; and secondly, they are usually of late 

 varieties which can only be matured at the 

 south. It takes about four weeks* time after 

 bedding the potatoes in spring to get the first 



