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POTATO FACTS AND FALLACIES. 
Tos seem to be boon ning Sox gph What 
; that so many v S 
ot immune to Wart Disease, Rud till 
offered for current year’s planting when 
iere are more than enough super-excellent 
varieties to choose from which are immune 
Surely no gardener would be so foolish as 
introduce any but immune sorts into his gar- 
den, however tempted farmers may be to do 
ег contra 
as to the relative values of 
seed is just a renewal of what 
over and over again in the past, 
early у volumes of The 
е 
ary. 
The discussion 
cu 
2 ere is not much difference. а 
appears to be eak eye in à peg үт po 
be so in ше Мы only an in fact, 
much neg on the rooting medium in w hich 
the prim roots grow. This be d 
strate y starting the tüberá owly in 
boxes, ng a compost of equal parts of loam 
nd did not take the tro abl 
previous to planting. Th 
A the commencement, 
ground in 
pm ve the ' most erratic 
manner. Finally, they proved Р жб sful and 
certainly I have never seen a stronger haulm 
than they podes ^em a A ne crop and grown 
without any manu Is it really essential fies 
even important, dre ier cut Poti ! 
The 
he Potato that ie 08 n that I n oticed it 
effect t of which jt v 
rtage o tubers bein 
оу о = clear that e Potato bins g 
iferous stolons proceeding from 
the stems, though ds may or may not also pro- 
duce a few deme the cutting of ees xtreme 
points of es oots can, ju g from 
analogy, do no duca; but rather be захаа Meet 
Late earthing, тясна ver, would bus m n» gen 
in no one respect c it be 
The practice of айе с pad of the 
Potato, for table use, to one or at most two 
stems, is good, because it is the only way by 
which tubers of the st quality can 
be produced, at the same ues allowing 
each plant an abundance of space. It 
is remarkable that of all garden vegetables 
we find the Potato most frequently ko bg An ce 
and і vith bad effec The ere is the 
п as to the heat time 
tion some a 
late varieties should not be planted till late in 
the spring, assuming, as the at early 
planting weakens the growth My experience 
1 ot lead те to recognise that this is tru 
Late plant ing and late ma turity go toge 
occasionally too late for maturity at all а 
could zish for growth to be stronger r than 
that from late varieties pla nted as soon 
soil is fit to receive them in spring. And ‘this is is 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
confirmed by observation. Last year the farmers 
in East Lothian who ра early, lifted pe 
and in good qualit; 
crop in good ише a Бо quality. The lat 
Pad on Pro r ша waited till almost 
winter е lifting and then was glad to ge 
rid of his t the earliest мант to save 
himself eee m through abnormal shrinkage 
and bad keepin P. B. 
THE ALPINE GARDEN. 
CODONOPSIS. 
Codonopsis includes some 20 or 
ted over Northern Asia, 
They are members 
the yd iege all are 
асн by having a unpleasant 
odo our when bruised. С. ova ata, к тзт in 
1, known also in gardens. as Glosocomia 
a native of the Himalaya 
io 
: ft. Tt aid t ow wild 
in ‘stony soil in grassy s p e ‘northern 
p so ү it apparently prefer sha 
is a gers Pm anial piece 
quite к ‘Tobe ous or woody from 
which are produced tufts ot ебу х р 
Fia,-41,—coponopsts 
stems clothed with glaucous green leaves. 
pendant, bell- -shaped а are of a slaty ine 
colour, veined and speckled with white and 
yellow, and are bor 
foot to two -— tall. 
ion of "a rock 
gms loa 
ел of the genus in vie 
jode the beautiful, Burmese C. 
th open, 
garden, in deep, 
volvulacea wi Clematis-like Nin; 
istrated in Fig. The deep lav vooder bln 
are al € 3 inches across. plant is 
a perennial, and only one stem is gar one 
amually from the woody rootstock С. 
хонае : from the Western Himalaya ha 
blue eined with yello on trailin 
8 eleagris is a г t introduction 
The plant i is 
^ habit, with broad leav 
s abont үш high, h 
wW: vith | a drooping ее haped 
LMARCH 8, HC 
THE MARKET FRUIT GARDEN. 
FEBRUARY did not do much to help forward 
work in the open, already reatly in arrears, 
The first half of the month g 
E 
was а 
ainy Mei OW the total rainfall for 
de Tu. = 2.70 in. on ер days, w 
Se average. Thus it not u 
the OAR that ploughing digging 
sae ing о be resumed and s i i 
It is to be I Ha that the finer pedes т of the 
Доу. a ke of February will co mes i 
has been a ve е rying winter. a 
кирле һаз den most de pressing, 
eeks we have practically marked 
whilst. for 
time witb 
[Photograph by W. Irving. 
OVATA: FLOWERS BLUE. 
t has frequently been à 
a at the men үл 
d be made with 
ard to work 
YING 
new ` power spraye! 
Pow 7 
winter 8 п 
а was brought = 
thl, 
з 
Ti 
© 
rongi 
easily supply fov 
a 
Knapsack sprayers do е 
ste ‘the trees are not too big and the ical 
is small, but they are too slow for econem 
