[To TOE EDITOR or THE "Sesersroa."1 Fm,—Referring to Lord Desboroagh's
letter some time ago recommending the planting of eyes of potatoes in seed boxes and transplanting then, later to prepared ground, I persuaded my gardener to try the experiment, though be was very sceptical, assuring me that the first year we would only get potatoes the size of the top joint of his Anger, and that even next year what we might get from these would not be much good. However, he took pains about them, and I think he is as pleased as I am with the result. Twelve eyes were planted in March in seed bases, transferred to frames in April, and put into the kitchen garden in May in stiffish sail with a little leaf mould. We have row lifted them and hare ebtained eighteen and n quarter pounds of potatoes, some of the plants bearing twelve or fifteen and the most prolific yielding twenty-three potatoes. A few we shall keep for seed; many of them, however, ore a good size for eating. The experiment has been so successful 1 think it well to make it known.—I am, Sir, Se., " illsbrow," Redhill. C. C. BROWN DOUGLAS. I Lord Deshorough will no doubt see these acknowledgments of the results of his advice. As for the plan being " no novelty," Lord Deehorough never said that it was new, or that lie invented it. It was certainly known before, but it was not widely known.— En. Spectator.]
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