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PLANTING LIST 



Potato : An easily grown, tender vegetable, raised from its tubers 

 and not from seed. For fear of scab it should not be grown on soil 

 that has been recently manured ; but it does well on grass land 

 recently plowed. The soil should be rich, but not wet; earliest 

 varieties may be planted in sandy soil. Consult your seedsman 



Tig. 203. — Never be satisfied with scabby potatoes. 



as to the kinds best suited to your locality; but sow two kinds, 

 early and late. 



The worst disease of the roots is scab, against which roll the 

 " seed," before it is planted, in flowers of sulphur, the most easily 

 applied remedy. Or soak the potatoes, before they are cut, in 

 formaldehyde (to be bought at any druggist's), a tumblerful (eight 

 ounces) in fifteen gallons of water, for two hours. 



