... POTATOES. ■ — «!>- TO THE EDITOR Of THE MORNING POST. Sir, — I am much perplexed on the subject of potatoes, not as to what I am to grow, or how to grow it, but the whys and wherefores of the potato-growing community generally. As a townsman, I take many ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. Tue outbreakof tbe potato disease throughout the length and breadth of the land brings with it the usual crop oi nostrums aad suggestions for its destruction. Unfor- tunately wa have lost all faith ia their utility, although we are ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. Sir, — It appears singular that while the failure of the potato crop is more or less general all over the country, no advice is offered to the growers in their trouble. I have in former years seen it stated that to cut off the haulm ...

... THE POTATO BLIGHT. ■ TO THE EDITOR OK THE MORXING POST. SlR,— Seeing that of late experiments have heen tried with a view of finding a remedy for preventing the disease ' or blight which is so frequently visiting our potato crops, j especially in wet ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. TO THE EDITOR OV THE MORNING POST. yn, — TLe potato disease, in its most aggravate I form is : piiij assuming imperial proportions. Will you fchere- fcie give mo a coiner in the Morning Post to state the issue of an experiment I made ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. (From the Gardener's Chronicle.) Mr. Glaisher states in the journal of the Royal Agricul- tural Society that tbe price of potatoes in the second quarter of the present year was 60 per cent, higher in London than it was in the spring ...

... the malady. Indeed, the taint among potatoes is essentially one of ple- thora, rather than one of debility from insufficient nourish- ment. Most diseases in plants are usually quite the opposite to that of the potato. It remains sound ou the scanty fare ...

... South America, and taking the seed from the wild potato, is considered impor- tant. When potatoes are to be raised from the tuber, sound, healthy, whole potatoes are recommended for planting Cutting potatoes is decidedly condemned. Anything which impairs ...

... individual growers as is the potato crop, and the destructive activity of the potato disease fungus, ?? ytopkthora infetttans, results in losses which proportionately are as seriously felt by the poor man who grows a small plot of potatoes for his own use as by ...

... roots (or plants) were dug up and all the potatoes were bad except two. In another field 14 roots were dug up without a single good potato being obtained ; and in one case a heap of apparently sound potatoes taken up on Monday week were found on the next ...

... came here, and therefore have seen much of the potato and of all other crops. The first we noticed of the disease in potatoes was in Somersetshire, where, I am sorry to say, we never tasted a good potato. In Devon- shire they were better, and as we drove ...

... is not too late for cultivators of small plots of potatoes to procure a spraying machine (Yermorel's I used) apply a 3 per cent, solution of the Bordeaux mixtuie, . and save their crops of late potatoes that have not as yet shown serious signs of disease ...