528 
cree ЛАА aam Шш ny Ө ы i 768 acres 
cul urns in Times of October 29], avera 
vide agri 
5 tons 15 owt, 2 т. 0. per acre, or а total of 4,662,147 € 
id: 
— fi 0 Reckonin 
ported (for е — were 14. s 
entire ation as 37,880,764, this would allow about 2 cwt, 
1 qr, 24 Ib. for every man, and child per annum, but 
these fi e the quantity annually 
tells me кы the acreage 
— estimates that abont санои ог 4,000, 
annually used in France in the manu ufacture of starch and 
alcohol. 
* I have also learned from my friend Herr Fritz Benary, of 
valuable statistics, that the 
total acreage devoted to P 
е total quantity of Potatos 
amounted = 32 4277801 tons, or allowing for кае 
quantities imported and exported, 32, 376, 497 tons, which wa: 
the total quantity available. 
sss чча AND — ÓÓ— 
+h Jan 
Selah Ma toon brought tabout. And here it is necess to 
refer to а misundertanding kim ren the fac ч that ‘ t "Seed 
Potatos. and Potato Seed are o one and 
the same thing. Seed Potatos may be either a crop of Potatos 
"TT 
+ 
£, £ +h 
the following year; or else, as is fre quently the case, the ey are 
erely the rs, which, being too small for market, 
are therefore kept back for planting. Now, it is well-known 
thickened, in ‘which starch is stored up in 
fene 
—— — . 
мә „Although they may x» ter — through the winter, and 
the old Lone which ма аш died 
т 
improving the en ge type by any selection of tubers. This 
у planti nga | tu iber which may from some 
will be 
, SEES bet many of them (asd aim, it M Wi we fd 
the seedlings. Even if no ri flowers 
was attempted, vement migh5 by the 
seleetion of the most promising seedlings during the first few 
years of their tence; but where judicious crossing of the 
best known varietiesjis und ertaken, we can in a great measure 
combine in some of the resulting ee 1 the merita of both 
t although even 
from the same berry may be exac * 
SEEDLINGS. 
attempting to 8 
. abundance of patience, Like many other species which are 
re. 
remarkable tendency to revert to the wild form. It may be 
1 gages 100 от even even 1000 seedlings before finding 
— France 
in a some- 
England, on the other 
.. 
= starch, excellence of: favour, power of resist- 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Novzunzn 2. 1895, 
ing disease, with little рт to develop ha re the 
characters we generally see Ia fo rtunately, ig says, sey 
are not alwa уч able to profit in France 
se the French ieee a marked —— [o 
ereas man 
Englan: 
Potatos with TUN flesh; wh in d, fi for 
years past, there has been & preference for white-fleshed 
Potatos. On this account even the c ated Magn 
h my house had the honour of introducing i 
n the Paris 
Bonum 
1876, after having enjoyed a brief popularity in 
almost abandoned as a table variety on 
M 
account of the flesh being too pale in col ons. Vilmorin 
remarks that in Germany considerable attention has 
given ising seed Potatos, but more REL with the 
object of raising varieties which are y adapted for the 
production of alcohol and starch.’ 
xt 
8 
e arrangement of anthers around the s lider Ss 
and =, and hen the inner surface of three 
their pollen 
маф апа 
SPECIES AND VARIETIES, 
A Potato Seedling ech ga ee 
another at end of icv paged amiy 
which Mr. Sutton had a picture of Solan 
remarked that "he had not noticed anything in this Potato 
Bon gal P S 
esemble,” 
gro in Peru, but Mr. 
ps for eight years, is > opinion that it is of no use in this 
We nie 
ing 
in South "Africa, which after ing grow t Bending for 
Mr 
ton describes: as distinct ^- 
artof the to, 
— iseased in 1894, and the red and white 1 
interesting т k а followed, including the 
d purple of which renders it 
п much in Norway. It has been con- 
ed 
seldom 
ifting the eter — it is quite ripe, the close 
peculiar to new Potatos is retained indefinitely. 
Slides 22, 23, and 24 represented pers Messrs. 
Suttons’ trial- ds. Owing to an injury to the stem, the 
uce tubers of the 
eir utmost to make up for this prets by a 
at tuberation from the axils of the leaves, 
utton, ‘‘of which only six kinds were 
ented flowers and foliage of Solanum Maglia, 
of which Mr, Sutton proceeded to say :—* Chiefly on account 
of the fact th 
havoc in atn i 
Lord Cathcart 
bri be ined 
between the Solanum Maglia (whose “habit was that of low- 
Archipelago) : and and the Solanum tuberosum, — mor writers 
anew race 
of Potatos mi ight be secured which would reli dikat; but 
here I may say, in parenthesis, it is gt at all impossible "that 
Solanum tuberosum may (have had i ts origin asa littoral 
plan t rat. 
which thought | is — ened by the fact that Potatos 
flouri 
—— Е en ee under glass to prevent its dying 
away. 
Slide 29 shows the tubers of Solanum Maglia, and I regret 
to say that last year, in 1894, 1, the crop was was almost edtirely 
“Side 30 shows he уына selling us eorr to, which, 
— te improvement on r 
1 
стор, and qualities. This Mer кы now been grown for 
eight сд and іп 1894 the crop was slightly ваа г" рге- 
viously it had almost жоет e 
The next few slides ie оа of ше hon. somes —4— 
of seedling Potatos — my hi e honou 
introducing to the public, the crosses meet e (n 
the majority of cases by the late Mr. ало so well-known 
as tton tato, and two 
cross 
binger, Ringleader, dsor Castle, Supreme, 
Early Regent, fey rear — Satisfaction Potato as 
1 must not — 
r use of the Bouillie Bordelaise as 
application for preventing Potato disease. 
; SE AND SPRAYING, 
Slide No. 42 shows two plots of Sutton's um Bonum 
ce tent das torte 2 — tato e 
126 h 
right hand not Mx been sprayed at all. It will be 
the result was marked, enabling the plants 
to continue in 2075 
had died do 
were as follows : — 
sprayed A. e 1 qr. 4 
dise rs was precisely t the same in both р 
4 lb. M. quests on really e additional 
weight per acre would d compensate the grower for the somewhat 
ous task of spraying his crop three times 
Seen that 
Sprayed 
ear Prof. Gilchrist of 
Extension College, prog we have found that i in the 
be air 
as these had finished their growth be fore ai any disease could 
d the utu did not 
ciably the p o! gn oubtedly in some sorts which 
e peculiarly liable t seas», especially when grown in 
gardens, a jadicious. Aas of the Bouillie Bordelaise 
» 
[GRAFTING THE TOMATO AND то 
Mr. vic then to some interesting experiments 
grafting the Tomato, and the — few slides represented 
x & bane o Г} * flowers; (2), bunch of Tomato flowers 
resembling Potato flowers and berries; 
(38), а 12575 of th the Tomato plant by ea in 1597, This was 
foll P «еде n from Ge 
. Sutton proceeded = ide represents our 
Tomato and Potato iih. One planted in 
“ Slide 47 i is the same process reversed, The Tomato plant 
o 
introduced. The Tomato roots have not, ol мед PE 
Potatos 
You di 
berries ; At os Ра 
оша ар 
that, although producing flowers and i 
rod eat and it being ‘ novos es 
will see in slides 
the axils of the leaves and stems 2 
Some discussion afterwards took place; 
NATION. d baee 
n 
e many in general 
n cultivation, that the Society 
does wart to be s sparing with 
given only to varieties of decided promise after their 
elaims ‹ are well considered. 
On this oocasion First-class Certifica 
Edith Tabor, a highly- 
unflower, having long b 
ii 
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HE 
pees 
uel 
E 
pe, 
Annie Holden, в'я а sulph 
which is white, and which "sedie to have 
qualities of the latter, from 
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B 325 
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BECKETT, 
MO ete ad ө at — 
of exquisi and a usble addition 
from Mr. R numeryman, Maidenhead. 
49, produced tubers m 
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