... POTATO PLANTING. (From the rarnicrs' Record.) e With the close of the grain seed-time, the preparation 1 of the soil for root-crops must commence. First in order I Comes potato-planting,-a crop which, though precarious, C may yet, with advantage, be more ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. The following letter appears in the Mari-Lasoe Expreas in of Monday last, addressed to the Editor:- as Sir,-The potato disease may be said to have perplexed Si the wisdom of philosophers, and to have baffled the skill of cc practical ...

... most rainy counties of England, and in 1848-after a summer the wettest and most ungenial for tbe potato within the memory of airy middle-aged mans-the Potatoes planted the previous autumn were those which alone give good- crops; 'those plented in spriog ...

... POTATO PLANTING. Our able contemporary, the Gardeners' £Mronide, has just published the result of some very extensive enquiries into the subject of potato planting. We take the following interesting remnarks from its last number:- In proceeding to discuss ...

... producing heary crops of potatoes. The Channel Islands and some parts of the continent are again suited for producing early crops, *Whilst EIngland's chief advantage rests upon having a home market. The foreign anlual importation of potatoes on an average amounts ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. A Cambridgeshire Farmer thus writes to the ON Times:- I have been a somewhat extensive potato grower ever since the year 1846, when the potato murrain, as it was then called, first made such havoc in the crop, and when, BE un ...

... TH{E POTATO YIELD. It is now possible to speak with some dongree of certaintf on the potato crop in England and Scotland. Up to thin middle of August the crop in the South of Euglano Midland counties promised to be very small, bet of good quality. Rain ...

... iostanees the application of these Cle corpositionma to potato plants baa even appeared to ewr have an injuricu% effelt upon the yield. On the whole 40; however, there id- anple evidence to prove that potato- ril plants dretused with sulphate of copper compositions ...

... planting the potato in the usual way. The result, he stated, was a large yield of peas and a splendid crop of potatoes; but the most important result was, the entire freedom of the potatoes so treated from any disease, while all those planted in the usual ...

... i THE POTATO CROP. A fairly correct estimate of the potato crop in England and Scotland can now be arrived at, and may be of some interest. Four-fifths of the potatoes grown consist of champions and magnums, with a few regents and victorias. In the South ...

... THlE POTATO DISEASE. CORRESPONDEXCE BETWEEN THE DUB3LIN MANSION iOUSE MOM- blITTEE AND SIR ROBERT I-EEL. , Sir s 6 MAansioon Hlouste, Dawson-8ereet, ov. 7, 1845. Sir,-As Chairman of a Committee consisting of highlly respectable gentlemen of all classes ...

... I Supply of Potatoes to the MIetropolis. I Formerly the great potato mart of London was in Tooley-street, and at the wharves which lie between that thoroughfare and the T'harnes vessels from nil the ports on the eastern coast of England, laden with potatues ...