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DR. L. G. G. WARNE1 is to be thanked for pointing out London's writings on this subject. The works of J. C. London (not Louden) indeed contain references to emergency methods of potato propagation which recent authors in several countries had thought to be new, even if these authors recognized approximations to some of these methods among the practices of their more economical forefathers. Thus already in the first edition of “An Encyclopedia of Gardening”, the date on the title page of which is given as 1822, there appear in one form or another all the notes and quotations given by Dr. Warne1 from the 1871 edition, while again in the first edition of “An Encyclopedia of Agriculture” (1825) Loudon mentions among means of propagation having strenuous support in some quarters “on the ground of experience. . . small cuttings, sprouts, shoots, or even only the eyes or buds”.
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NATURE, 152, 450 (1943).
Gard. Chron., Ser. 3, 113, 36 (1943); NATURE, 151, 587 (1943).
Amer. J. Bot., 29, 558 (1942).
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POLUNIN, N. Propagation of Potatoes. Nature 152, 601 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152601a0
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