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LONDON POTATO

... LONDON POTATO. Best qualities meet a fair sale steady prices; Inferior kinds dull and irregu'ar. Quotation*:—Hebrons.6ob 80s; regents. 6Es to ?st; magnnms. GOs to 70s; early roses, 40s to GCs; and imperators, to 65s per ton. Tbe trade on the hop market ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1889
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

LONDON POTATO

... LONDON POTATO. Good supplies, and a steady sale for all bat inferior samples at the annexed prices Scotch regents. 80s to 130s; English ditto. 60s 100s; magnums, 60s 100s; Dunbars, to 130s; Eebrons. 60s to bOs; and other descriptions, 60s 80s per ton ...

Published: Tuesday 14 May 1889
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE POTATO DISEASE

... THE. POTATO DISEASE. Some weeks ago there was every reason to expect an abundant crop of potatoes, and no doubt we should have had one were it not for the all but incessant rain, which has blighted oar prospects. Nor yet have we seen the worst, as the ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1873
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 936 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE CULTIVATION OF THE POTATO

... THE OUITIVATIONi OF THE POTATO. TIo the s l~diztr of' the ?? Merc-urt-. SiBn-Every thing in its season, 187-k, likeite predecalsors, brings its routine of labour and isuceession of operatksus; the tradesman to his trade, and tho farmer to his farm, Amongst ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1874
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2552 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LONDON POTATO

... LONDON POTATO. Fair supplies at market, and good trade for best sampler. Englifh Regents, 60s to 75*; magnum*. 50* to 80s; Hebrons, 60* to 80*; early roses, 50* to 55* ; white elephants, 60* to 75* per ton. BILLINGSGATE FISH. There were short supplies ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1889
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 555 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE POTATO DISEASE

... THE POTATO DIMEASS. In a long and exhaustive articlo on the nature and de. velopment of the potato disease, the Timier says:- (oe fact may be mentioned, as It will be easily corn. prehended. A badly diseased tuber will be found attached to its parent ...

Published: Monday 22 January 1883
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1244 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE POTATO DISEASE

... THE POTATO DISEASE. To Via Editor of tk* Bristol iferntry. Sir—The numerous reports which appear in the Mercury and other papers relative to tho potato disease, though very gloomy, may considered as unexaggerated, and borne out by. alas ! too-well-attested ...

THE CULTURE OF THE POTATO

... varietits. In growing potatoes from cuttings an ordinary hot bed! 1 shonld be- tbe potato to propagated should bo 1 divided leagthwise, and the pieces laid about the Ist of March) the out side down upon the soil of. tbe hot bed. When tbe potato commences to throw ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1875
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1014 | Page: 6 | Tags: Commerce 

POTATO PLANTING

... year, I stated-that I Intended to repeat the experi. c ments in autumn and spring planting. As the annual | value of our potato crop is something lke £31,000,000, v sterling, the subject oannot be deemedtobeunimportatt. ab On Wovember 3 apiece of land ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1881
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1308 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON POTATO

... LONDON POTATO. Larger supplies, and trade dull (or all nett qualities, the annexed prices:—Scotch Resents, 80s I20s; English ditto. •0s to 90s: magnums. 60s to 170 s; Hebrons. 60s to 70s; other descriptions, fiOa 80s par ton. LONDON METAL. Copper active ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1889
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LONDON POTATO

... LONDON POTATO. Pair tupplle* mar we'. at about previou* rate*. Price*- Scotch Regents, 80i» to ISO* j Soslish ton'' * , 10 I * > * champion*. Copper three month*. Tin firmer; Btrait*, cuh and IT* three month*; Atutralian, 196 £B6 on the •pot; EnulUh inaerte ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE QUALITIES OF POTATOES

... begins by saying that potato fanciers consode I form only, and put aside every other quality. SomebiDY believes the rubbish probably or there would soon be a . end of it. A clear skin is much to he de3iracter 7 criterion of a good potato. We want beauty of ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1881
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 2 | Tags: News