POTATO EYES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 41

POTATO EYES.

AND HOW TO TROPAGAT®. Wc give an illustration of propagating potatoes by a single eye or bud. This method in usually adopted when potatoes are scarce, and the practice is one worthy of consideration. Usually potatoes are planted with far too many eyes or buds, and some growers go over their plots, thinning out. the weak shoots, which tends to the production of a more uniform sample. When the single-eye plan is put into practice, the eye should be thick and strong; weak, stringy eyes are little use for planting. The utility of single eyes is of great value in sending by post ; the larger portion of the tuber can be cut off and only a small portion left with the eye, and if carefully packed in moss or damp sawdust

it wifi carry a long distance. 1! b advisable before packing for long jour neys to allow the flesh to dry for a d.i' On arrival at the destination they can •be set in the open ground if the season and soil are suitable; but where these conditions do not obtain they ean Im potted as shown in the illustration. Any amateur having a few choice potatoes may, by following this simple plan, put a distant friend in possession of a few of his favotH'ite variety.