This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...The seed must be carefully selected year after year, till the desired change is fixed and firmly established. New and somewhat permanent varieties may be thus obtained. 484. But the case is different when we cultivate potatoes and other tubers, since we do not usually plant the seed in such cases, the tubers being only an, enlargement of the stem beneath the soil, and when plants grow from their buds or eyes,--as they do in the ordinary manner of raising potatoes, the same. variety is extended or increased with no change of character. 485. New and distinct varieties of the potato may be produced to any extent by sowing the seeds of the plant. Thus the chenango, the pinkeye, and other varieties, were first obtained from seed taken from the ripe bolls of other varieties....

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