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No. 1. — Potato * Victoria,' typical plant, showing normal growth and 
produce. 
No. 2. — Plant grown from tubers which were the result of grafting, 
in 1895, Tomato ' Maincrop ' on Potato' ' Victoria.' Each year since 
1895 a crop has been grown, and the tubers resulting from the graft 
saved. 
Notes. — All the plants of No. 2 are alike, but the growth is only about 
one-third the height of No. 1, and the tubers few and small. Haulm 
much dwarfed and produce diminished, form of leaf not altered. 
No. 3. — A similar experiment to the last, except that in 1895 an- 
other variety of Tomato, viz., Sutton's ' Perfection,' was grafted on to 
' Victoria ' Potato. 
Notes. — All these plants also are very uniform, exactly corresponding 
with one another, but they are rather stronger than No. 2, and more 
bushy, and yet quite distinct from No. 1. 
No. 4. — A similar experiment to Nos. 2 and 8 but in this case, instead 
of a Tomato, the common garden weed, Solamim nigrum, which pro- 
duces seed-berries so plentifully, was grafted on the Potato ' Victoria,' in 
1895. 
Notes. — The plants correspond more nearly to those of No. 1, but 
whereas in neither No. 1, 2, nor 3 are there any seed-berries, in No. 4 
the plants produce seed-berries abundantly. Three plants of No. 4 are 
sent to show its seed-bearing tendency. {N.B. — It will be seen, that the 
tubers vary little, if at all, from those of No. 1, and this? was the case 
also when shown in January last.) The ' Victoria ' foliage is unaltered, but 
the haulms bear numerous berries of the size of marbles. 
A very similar experiment was made in 1895 with another Potato, 
Sutton's ' Supreme,' the character and constitution of which appear to 
have been modified by Tomato grafts, just in the same way as ' Victoria ' 
Potato was. 
No. 5. — Typical plant of Potato ' Supreme.' 
No. 6. — Plant grown from tubers which were the result of grafting, 
in 1895, Tomato ' Ham Green Favourite ' on Potato ' Supreme.' Each 
year since 1895 a crop has been grown and tubers saved from this graft, 
as in the case of plants Nos. 2 and 3. 
It will be seen that here also the plants are much'[dwarfer, though 
the tubers do not differ much except in their smaller size. 
Axillary Tubers. — No. 7. — An interesting experiment was^made in 
1895 as follows : — Tomato ' Earliest of All ' was grafted with Potato 
' Woodstock Kidney.' The Potato-foliage produced axillary tubers, 
nourished, of course, by the Tomato roots. The axillary tubers w^ere 
planted, and a crop has since been grown annually. No. 7 represents the 
ordinary plant of Potato ' Woodstock Kidney.' No. 8 represents the 
plants grown from the axillary tubers of 1895 and successive years. 
Notes. — Perhaps No. 8 is stronger and taller and more upright in 
growth, but there is no very marked difference between the two as regards 
foliage ; the tubers of No. 8, however, are very poor in every way, and 
very few in number, and the quantity of fibrous roots relatively large. 
