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blooming kinds, because they will bare the aid of glass after the 
first or second week in October, and be safe from the destruction 
of their opening buds by frost. I think if I had to provide a dis- 
play for an employer, and certainly if, apart from all business, I 
were to grow a lot for my own enjoyment, I should select for 
the conservatory a few from every one of the classes, including 
Incurved, Eeflexed, Japanese, Chinese, Anemone, Pompone ; and 
trust for the names to the “ Garden Oracle.” 
NOTES ON POTATOES. 
notes on “ Disease Proof Potatoes,” which I contri- 
Eloeal World for December 1872, have, 
iSls I am happy to say, created a great demand for the sorts 
recommended, and I beseech of our readers to make 
themselves safe in respect of seed potatoes in good time, 
for the disease proof sorts will soon be bought up, and we may 
really witness a repetition here of the American mania, which raised 
the value of some sorts of potatoes to fifty dollars a root. All we 
experimental gardeners can do, is to state as plainly as possible what 
we know, and then leave the laws of supply and demand to settle 
the commercial matters. Now it will be seen, we hope, how impor- 
tant it is for the interests of the public, and of really honest journa- 
lism, that we should keep aloof from all trading operations and 
avoid the very appearance of evil. We have but one correction to 
make in the list of disease proof potatoes published last month. It 
is proper that TFooc^’s Scarlet should be added to the list, for this we 
find is one of the very best on our wet soil, and in several far 
removed wet and dry districts, it has given good crops in the past 
summer. If I could be carried away from public duty by private 
friendship, I should stick to Headly's Nonpareil, which is without 
question the finest potato in the world, and as the production 
of my dear old friend, Mr. Deadly of Stapleford, a most agreeable 
reminder to me of happy days of “ auld laug syne.” Mr. Deadly has 
lately sent me samples from his lively sandy loam, and they are 
certainly superb. He reports that he has taken up a heavy crop, 
and is as much as ever satisfied that Deadly’s Nonpareil is worthy 
of a place in every garden in the British islands. Fortunately for 
the cause of truth, it matters not to Mr. Deadly, as it matters not to 
me, on financial grounds, whether his seedlings or my seedlings 
produce money in the market, and so we can consider their respec- 
tive claims without fear of the detestable iufluence of what is called 
the “ commercial principle.” Therefore in respect of the favourite 
potato of my dear old friend — who is one of the best judges of quality 
in vegetable productions that ever lived — I shall say that on dry 
soils it is disease proof, but on wet soils the disease annihilates it, 
and there, as respects the disease, the grand question is at an end. 
In respect of quality, apart from the subject of disease. Deadly’s 
Nonpareil is all that Mr. Deadly declared it to be years ago — the 
finest potato in the world. 
