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WM. K. PHDsCE ft DO'S. 



sons in the Tnion who have the Chinese Potato under culture (mostly sup- 

 plied by myself), and the public cannot fail to obtain from them satisfac- 

 tory and conclusive information the ensuing autumn, for their foture guid- 

 ance. Persons who are desirous of ample information as to the last years 

 successful culture in Europe, can consult the ''Mark-Lane Express" and 

 " Gardener's Chronicle" of Great Britain, and the " Revue Hortieole," pub- 

 lished under the direction of the French Institute ; which latter, in its last 

 Quarto for 1S55, devotes twenty entire pa^es to the experiments and cul- 

 ture of this plant, and concludes with the following astounding announce- 

 ment: — This esculent has now been tested in every Department of France, 

 even to its most northern limits, the shore of the Rhine, and it is to be 

 deemed, henceforth, incorporated into the agriculture of France." I have 

 taken especial pains to inform myself fully, by examining several very ex- 

 tensive Chinese Agricultural works which have been translated by order of 

 the French Government, and it is the perusal of these works and their 

 elaborate details as to the extensive culture of this root in China, which have 

 most fully confirmed in my mind the vast importance of this inestimable 

 esculent. 



"WM. R. PRINCE. . 



X. B. — The Dioscorea Japonica — Japan Potato, and other kinds, we only 

 cultivate as fancy varieties. 



TERMS FOR THE CHINESE POTATO. 



In order to facilitate its general dissemination, I will, until Sept. 1st, 

 contract as follows, deliverable in October: — For 100 to 1,000 tubers. $15 

 per hundred, with a condition that if my crop shall equal my expectations, 

 the price shall be reduced to -$10 per hundred. Terms. — One-fourth of the 

 amount, to be remitted with the order, and the balance payable at the time 

 of delivery. 



Orders for Trees, d'c. — It is indispensable that every order be plainly and 

 regularly made out, and not mixed up and confused with the letter, and that 

 plain directions how they are to be marked and forwar.ied should imme- 

 diately follow the order, so as to be complete and distinct from the letter. 

 All Packages of Trees, Plants. &c, will be marked and forwarded as re- 

 quested by Express or otherwise, and a Receipt taken theretor. and for- 

 warded to the purchaser, after which our responsibility ceases. 



Note. — I shall communicate in future through the "Tribune" News- 

 paper such information as 1 may deem most important in regard to this 

 esculent, and of most interest to cultivators. 



W. P. 



