A New Potato.
At a recent meeting of theLinnean Society, Mr. J. G. Baker drew attention to a new kind ot potato which is indigenous to the moister parts of Chili, and ia more suited to a moist climate like ours than the common potato, which coine3 £rom the dry parts of that country. Two plants of this new potato under cultivation yielded 600 tubers in one year, the tuber-bearing sterna reaching seven feet long. The botanical name of the new potato is Solanum maylia ; but other varieties, such as the S. Comma soni, now being tried in France, and the S. Jamesu, under test in America, are also suited to moist climates. Mr. Baker also remarks that the ordinary potato becomes a prey to disease on losing its vitality by tuber-bearing at the expense of other functions ; and he is of opinion that the best way to prevent thi disease ia to grow the potato best adapted to the climate, and restore vitality to the plant as soon as it ceases to flower and fruit by cutting of the tuber-stems and savmg the roots which nourish it.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 13 September 1884, Page 5
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188A New Potato. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 13 September 1884, Page 5
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