RURAL NEW.YORKER 
1071 
RURALISMS 
Tulips from Seed 
My tulips developed seed. The .seed is 
ripe. What mouth ought it to bo sown? 
Can the .seed be expected to develop col¬ 
ors like those*from which they grew? 
Schuylerville, N. Y. >l. ii. l). 
Tulip .seed may bo gathered as soon as 
ripe, and sown in sandy .soil in a frame, 
where the seeds will remain in the ground 
till the next Spring, being protected 
against accidents of weather. Th<‘ lirst 
season they should make little bulblets 
about the size of a pea, which are grown 
on year after year till old enough to 
dower, being lifted, dried and replanted, 
just like the older bulbs. It is likely 
to be five to sevt_ years before the dow¬ 
ering period is reached, and here a very 
odd characteristic of the garden tulip is 
displayed; the first blooms are not the 
permanent character that will l.-e shown 
when the bulb is older. Tulips of this 
class arc called brt'eders, or seifs, as tlu'y 
are usually in solid colors. After being 
grown for several years longer, the breed¬ 
ers “break”; that is, the .solid c(dor gives 
way to flamed and feathered flowers. 
These are divided roughly into two 
classes, bybloeins and bizarres. Bybloems 
are those with white ground or under 
color and lilac or purple markings; bi¬ 
zarres those Avith yellow under ceflor and 
red to brown over color. .Selected strains 
of breeders arc much used for bedding, 
being very showy. The common method 
of propagating is bj' new bulbs caused to 
form by cutting the parent bulb within 
its outer layers, also by offsets, but the 
offsets are said to be less constant in 
character than the artificially induced 
bulblets. Tinder these conditions a tulip 
bulb reproduces its own epoch; a breeden- 
gives bre(‘der, a bybloem or bizarre its 
own character. It is eA'ident tl’at a p('r- 
son who raises tulips from .seed must 
have patience, and prepare for the un¬ 
expected. 
The Potato—Its Origin 
I h.ave just noted in Till:; T‘. N.-\. tin' 
notes on the .origin and history of the po¬ 
tato. I think they are trying to throw 
too much mystery around the subject. Tn 
our mountain ranges here we have the 
wild potato in abundance. I have seen it 
in many parts, l.ast year I was in a 
mountain district, and it was growing in 
great abundance along the irrigation 
ditclu'S. r.rowing with Avater the vines 
are more sturdy and cannot hi' told from 
the cultivated plant. T'he wild ones here 
produce a small tuber the .shape of .-i pea¬ 
nut and about the same size, or a trifle 
larger. The Ihovers are often of a deei)er 
color, and the seed balls the sizi' of pe;is. 
Thirty-fiv(> years ago we had at the 
loAva Agricultural College a Avild potato 
which the jirofessor of horticulture said 
had been sent him from the Kooky iSIoun- 
tains. We had it under the nanm of S. 
.Tamesonii. if memory does not fail me. 
The practical point was that the plant 
grew well, was not much troulded with 
bugs, and jiroduced .small tuiieis that 
would not freeze in the Winter. In the 
Soring these small tubcr.s Avere a beautiful 
white, and; jis soon as th.o Aveatlnu' Avas 
Avarm, covered the ground Avith a ucav 
groAvth.- It Avas said that this phint av.-is 
the Colorado keeper of the potato beetle, 
Avhich abandoned it as soon as the more 
succulent cultivated potato c.ime jilong. 
I tried crossing the floAvers wirli tlie 
common iiotalo, thinking tc gci an «'di- 
ble potato that Avould not freeze in Win¬ 
ter and that AV(>uld b(‘ suil.-ibie lur lazy 
people Avho had not time t.. dig their 
siloes in liio Call, or for tliose bc'hind 
Avith their AA’ork. Tlio little Av.ok I did 
did not succeed, but I .still think, with 
care, it can be done. i^uch a pot.ito 
should have .‘i high flaA'or. T.. )•:. n. 
K N.-Y.—Solanum .Tamesii. not .Tame¬ 
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Its range is from Mn* mountains of Col¬ 
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botanists say it is clo.'^ely allied to the 
Northern form of <he t' lu' esculent. S. 
tuberosum var, borealc, found from NeAV 
Mexico soutliAvai'd. We are told that S. 
Jamesii is sometimes grOAvn as a curios¬ 
ity, but that the tubers are not eaten. 
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