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The Horticulturist's Rule- Book. 



Sweet-Potatoes, continued. 



rapid fermentation, and loss is then certain to follow. Sand 

 is never used here in banking potatoes. Some varieties of 

 potatoes keep much better than others. The Yellow Sugar 

 Yam and the Pumpkin Yam are the most difficult to carry 

 through ; while the Trinidad potato keeps as readily as Irish 

 potatoes, only requiring to be kept free from frost and light 

 by a slight covering of straw, if the tubers are placed in a 

 house. Next in keeping quality come the Hati Yam, the 

 Red-skinned, Brimstone, Nigger Killer ; and the last of the 

 potato section is the Nansemond. 



Tomatoes, — Pick the firmest fruits just as they are beginning to 

 turn, leaving the stems on. exercising care not to bruise them, 

 and pack in a barrel or box in clean and thoroughly dry sand, 

 placing the fruits so that they will not touch each other. 

 Place the barrel in a dry place. 



In the autumn, when frosts appear, tomatoes, if carefully 

 picked and laid on straw under the glass of cold-frames, will 

 continue to ripen until near Christmas. Fruit ripened in 

 this way seems to be as good as that ripening naturally on 

 the vines. 



The ripening of tomatoes may be hastened ten days by 

 bagging them as grapes are bagged. 



These are arts pursued without a crime, 

 That leave no stain upon the wings of Time. 



— COWPER. 



