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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12908, 23 February 1906, Page 7

_ The s km or penderm of a potato .tuber is provided with a large numb-r of breathing pores or lenticels. which in most varieti?s (>t .potato are barely visible to the saked eye, but in some varieties are verv conspicuous, and project considerably beyond the general surface of the tuber, so much 60 that when a young tuber .that has been carefully dug is held between the eye and the light, the surface presents a minutely velvety appearance. This appearance is due to the presence" of little groups of dead cells that are constantly being pushed outwards by the long continued division and growth of the living cells belonging to the lenticels behind, hence the surface of the tuber is covered with little groups of dead cells. The mycelium of fungi that happens to be in the soil surrounding a tuber thus formed, finds suitable food in the dying or dead superficial cells; and thence the fungus spreads into the substance of the tuber. "PHOSFERICUS." IHE effect of this "Standard Eemedy" _L iit Nervous Debility and its Kindred Evils is Immediata and Permanent, all the miserable feelings ar.d distressing symptoms disappearing with a vapidity that "is really marvellous. Sold at "NORMS' DISPENSARY."