This section is from the book "The Gardener V2", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
By James Pink. Crosby Lock wood & Co., London.
Mr Pink has in this handy volume gone very fully into the practical routine of the preparation of the soil, and all other matters relating to the high-class culture of the potato, by following which he has been among the most extensive and successful exhibitors of potatoes. Those who want to be equally successful cannot do better than consult this volume, it being an embodiment of the practice which has brought so much success to its author.
 
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