Searching For The Perfect Potato #11
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Searching For The Perfect Potato #11
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Retro Images Archive
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After the leaf has been impregnated with the virus it is partially washed off by a syringe to prefect rapid inhibiting effects. 15 YEARS RESEARCH FOR THE PERFECT POTATO. Scotland still leads the world in potato preeding. it was Dr. William Black of Boghall Farm near Edinburgh, Scotland who discovered the world’s best and flawless potato in 1946 after working on it for 20 years and called it the “Craig’s Bounty”. Research still goes on to counter Stunt diseases in potatoes and the various odd ailments that effect it. Dr. Black continues his researches with other experts like Dr. G. Cockerman and Dr. T. Mairi R. McGhee at the Scottish plant Breeding Station at Corstorphine, Edinburgh, in the hope they will be able to immune all types of potato plants and tube’s from the dreaded wart and blights. Experiments are being made with grafts on the Solanum Demissum, a wild Mexican species which is immune from blight and is used for breeding blight resisting potatoes. A special type of Chinchilla rabbit is bred to help researches. Over 2,000 varieties of potatoes including many types grown in other parts of the world, grown and tested in field plots, and if they are found to be up to a given standard the breeders submit their seedlings to the Department of Agriculture and Seed Testing Station next door to their own headquarters.
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