New TußEßCtE —Among the exotics recently introduced into France is a new tubercle, brought from Peru by M. Cochet, who has resided twenty years,in South America. This new plant has been cultivated for two (years 'in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, of the Bois de Boulogne, and has passed two winters without requiring more attention than the potato. Besides its nutritive and medicinal properties, it is very rich in sugar, of a quality superior to that of beet-root. The yield of this plant per hectare will average '150,000 kilogs.—-sixty tons per English acre. In honor of its introducer, this valuable root is called Poire deterre Cochet. — Express.
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 3, 16 November 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)
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105Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 3, 16 November 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)
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