EXPERIMENTS IN THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES.— IX. 



Potatoes — Castleton Gardens. 



Names of Potatoes grown at 

 Castleton Gardens. 



White Elephant 

 Sutton's Windsor Castle 

 Sutton's Perfection 

 Sutton's Abundance 

 Sutton's Nonsuch 

 Sutton's Reading Russett 

 Early Rose (Kidney) 

 Sutton's Satisfaction 

 Sutton's Triumph 

 Sutton's Best of All 

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 29.5 

 16.5 

 16.5 

 14.5 

 17.5 

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 14.5 

 18.5 

 29.5 

 18.5 



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88 

 102 

 88 

 88 

 86 

 89 

 86 

 86 

 90 

 102 

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 39 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 32 

 33 

 39 

 33 



Potatoes — Hope Gardens. 



E. J. c. 



Names of Potatoes grown at Hope 

 Gardens. 



Date of Planting 



First appearance above ground. 



Days from Planting. 



Date when tops were dead and 

 Potatoes ready for digging. 



Days from Planting. 



Number of sets planted. 



N umbeT of sets lifted. 



Number of Saleable Potatoes 

 per set. 



Total number of Potatoes 

 per set. 



Weight of Saleable Potatoes 

 per set. 



Gross weight of Potatoes 

 per set. 



Total weight of Potatoes 

 lifted. 



M . X. temp, during time 

 Potatoes were in ground. 



Rainfall. 



Number of days on which 

 rain fell. 























ozs. 



ozs. 



lbs. 









Windsor Castle 



24,2 



9.3 



16 



19.5 



85 



32 



26 



1.9 



4.9 



3.6 



4,9 



8 



93 



4.30 



17 



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