POTATOES.
[axsiver to EX-QUIRT.]
" Can you tell me why my potatoes all ran to top ? It is the asaal result evory year. My potatoes are all top and no root.—Yours, etc., - Potato," ™ln answer to your enquiry : "Why do my potatoes all ran to top ?" I must ask you to hear in mind that tho potato tuber is not a portion of the root, as you seem to think; it is in reality an underground stem. Consequently if you would have more underground stem, in tho shape of tubers, instead of overground stem, in the shape of top, your efforts must be exerted in tho direction of your desires. If the soil isi-ioh potatoes should have plenty of room for earthing up, for, as the normal stem grows upwards, it will bo noticed that it givos of? roots from its lower end, and, by well earthing up, this underground stom (tubers) is the result.
To prevent potatoes running to top, it is most necessary that they should have plenty of room so that they can be worked thoroughly. These conditions must be attended to if a profitable crop is desired. lloiiTrs.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5185, 19 November 1895, Page 3
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191POTATOES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5185, 19 November 1895, Page 3
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