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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2628, 11 June 1877, Page 2

J>.R. Mamb?, .an . eminent English agriculturist,' and the author of "a prize essay on the cultivation of.early potatoes, says ,in -that essay, which has ■ recently been published, that '.' a flower to, aaearly,,, potato is considered, a sign of deterioration,;^ the first symptom.of growing, out, it being.? contended that all the strength of the plant should be. thrown into perfecting I the tuber, and. not: in: the opposite:;: extreme." He would therefore eradicate them as soon as they appear,. and' "save seed from plants .which have, shown no i . indication of flowering. Experiments hare shown, that potato plants, beginning to show a tendency to flower perfect their tubers less early and perfectly than before • that tendency was developed. . . - '.-. r»,c "; Political Whaling.—" You. cannot keep.me down !" shouted a jß..d'cal orator'.^ at. a public meeting. "Though, I may". be pressed below the waves, I rise again; ; you willjind that I come, to the surface, „' gentlemen." " Yes," said a Conservative, who bad come among the audience for the' \ purpose of anthropological study, "you"- 5 come to the surface to blow." Fbom a Guide Book.—"The coachmen of Paris are very kiud to their horses, especially when engaged by the hour."