Novemeer 16, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
579 
arising from the great production of tubers the 
plants now exhibit. Seeing that in Potatos the 
n coterminous, and are not 
be obtained from any source (and just a few 
yarieties do have plenty of véllen), may be fer- 
lised freely without interfering with the stamens, 
unless it be those few varieties that do produce pollen 
freely, and it is Tare indee 
for seed-production, They may have made, excel- 
lent pollen parents. Certainly pollen sufficient | to pro- 
by ye verance from many 
are 
apparen ntly - - barren 
, 8s I have frequently found; but never in 
e has any individual flower of these m 
produced pos HA vd гй It ія а curious 
of flor uge areas of Potato 
in m Rel one EN d the next not only — 
a flower is to be found, but not even a berry— 
has been proved to be the moat diseate- 
— soil in Surrey. I do sincerely 2 = 
n = Pot 
trials henceforth, for it is most — 
— а fine (— rp — otten 
with disease. n be no doubt tiit 
that а benefit на — dressing even disease- 
resisting varieties e Bordeaux 
Mixture arises from the longer 5 of the 
foliage, thus helping, as only thro y 
of leafage can it be helped, to develop greate 
€ in the Pe though no material uae 
y be made to . Therec 
— 4 doubt — more fally 
developed in the у have reached 
their maximum size, and the process of ripening is 
proceeding, than at — previous period in their 
rowth. Thus the retention of leafage for . three 
dh longer on the plant becomes, for this purpose, 
a matter of vital importance, That das is во 
much complaint every year as to the absence of 
Fic 99.— vikw IN ТИЕ EVELYN PARK AT DEPTFORD, (SEE Р. 576) 
rores * — bare stems to show where the 
flow 
Né Vicini of the lecturer that with so man 
fine comparatively ae sida d Potatos in culti- 
t 
in 
vation, eve most adverse seasons, 16 does 
pay pply Mende of the Bordeaux Mixture 
: — trials d 
all the bes of Potatos i 
commerce during the past ames n Surrey, on 
numerous plots and diverse soils. In "te majority 
of cases — gave about cent. of injured 
tubers only, but there were two cases, irm on the 
ae porous e- evidently over-charged nitrogenous 
oil of the allotment-ground at Richmond, 3 — the 
disenso played] havoc with all sorts, early an and | late, 
— the bulk to the extent of two-thirds, at least, 
ай. ge soil is so much like that at Chis- 
wiek; where also disease was apparent, that it is 
evident Мы" wi conditions under which jt would 
pay well to employ the Bordeaux Mixture ан д 
эч if I have to д" P Роба! 
ichmond next year, I trust it will be дт 
ча the purpose of testing this эй» compound, 
quality in Potatos, is largely due to the fact that 
the foliage is destroyed by the disease ere it can 
ere its proper work of maturing, there can be 
no dou 
This matter naturally leads on to the con 
tion of another, respecti 
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grown on the Con- 
tinent, not only for ked, but also 2 furnish 
starch and 
sugar . 
Comparing them with — re 
have rd iis we peres white flesh tubers, 
ose almost 3 
We here 
how that bres stupidity w the 
nation in its preference for "cde white boneless 
bread over of whole 
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they lac starch, 
chief flesh-forming Kr e, and flavour why this 
odd antipathy to yellow flesh ? uriously enough 
evt; likes and extola the Ashleaf Kidney, which 
has in it a considerable body of yellow flesh, both for 
ite nutty quality and flavour, Who does not 
remember the old Victoria, во good, one of the best 
flavoured of Potatos, with its (when well cooked) 
yellow Psy coated with whitish flour-like crystal- 
lised sugar. Have we to-day its equal, or that of the 
Adden for flavour? Mr. Robert Fenn, when һе 
raised his old early market eel of Woodstock, 
Woodstock Kidney, gave us ous flavour, but so 
soon as he utilised the — — Americans as 
r 
were out of Woodstock Kidney, and 
they have petat flavour, as also has Reading Russet, 
well, but s all Live SA bases. 
varieties that produ 
production, but if we will have these elements we 
must have yello ow flesh also, 
finally to chemists whenever they — 
of them as a food, ot hat the 
с cooking brings about I cannot say, but they 
are considerable, Sul further, perha will 
tell us 
what ingredients we can apply to soils that 
shall give us starch and flavour, where now it is 
lacking. A. D, 
THE SHOW TULIP. 
2 — possible the garden show Tulip may 
се more grace the tables of our exhibitions in 
а — ea rs, for P. Barr seems 
popular flower; and we all know, that should he really 
be in earnest in the matter, that it will soon be an 
an ia his intention 
accomplished fact, Such I gle 
6 properties to 
very letter, and who never could believe their own 
eyes; for every flower had to be examined through 
a pair of spectacles — they could trust it to be 
taged. Ho — I — 
from some of t 
assed many а ry hour in their society. The 
a | four shows annually, at times suitable 
for their favourite kinds of florists’ flowers. I regret 
tion seems to be lacking in energy in upholding — 
shows as were the pride of their fathers; and this 
society, like so many others, 
2 United Kingdom. Now, we do not expect people 
— in these days over the дыр э» as 
case when the cul- 
i ande ы 
„„ Rte highest, about’ 1698, 
We do о eee hear of the gambling speca- 
lations that were once carried on sea Сын 
gor the — sold by 
е brought prices which — че 
Semper 
to give 
two grey кай. Urs ac 
another agreed to give 12 acres of land for а bulb; 
and in one instance Talips brought a profit of more 
