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IT is interesting in view of the recent correspondence1,2 on this subject to recall that a century ago the planting of whole tubers was by no means the only method employed for propagating the potato. Louden (“Encyclopaedia of Agriculture”, 1844) lists the use of small cuttings, sprouts, shoots, eyes, and buds, as methods of propagation, and in “Encyclopaedia of Gardening” these and other methods are described. The following notes are based on descriptions given in the 1871 edition of “The Encyclopaedia of Gardening”, although, so far as can be judged from the preface, they are likely to be identical with descriptions given in the earlier (1834) edition.
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WARNE, L. Propagation of Potatoes. Nature 152, 450 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152450b0
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