Potato cookery : 300 ways of preparing and cooking potatoes / by Alfred Suzanne and C. Herman Senn ; with an introduction by J.C. Buckmaster.

  • Suzanne, Alfred.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: Potato cookery : 300 ways of preparing and cooking potatoes / by Alfred Suzanne and C. Herman Senn ; with an introduction by J.C. Buckmaster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    present varieties will be in existence. Now propagation by tubers is not repro- duction, but plant division, and, sooner or later, plant existence perpetuated in this way must come to an end. Our only hope of the future rests in the production of new varieties. A new variety can only be raised from seed, and this will take from five to six years to establish itself, and if after twenty years’ existence it de- generates into a crop not worth cultiva- ting, the necessity for new7 varieties be- comes a matter of national importance. COMPOSITION OF THE POTATO. If we have the stomachache, instead of going to the chemist w7e go straight to the Government, and I am afflicted with the same popular weakness. I think the pro- duction of new varieties of potatoes a matter of national importance, that it should be encouraged by the Govern- ment, particularly among allotment tenants, many of whom grow nothing but potatoes. It would do quite as much good as finding out whether the people in the moon knew any geometry, or what horse will win the next Derby. Potatoes