This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Gardening Illustrated says, that at a recent meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, Mr. W. G. Smith forwarded specimens of hybrid potatoes obtained by the method of introducing plugs with eyes of one sort into other sorts. Dr. Masters observed that both botanists and gardeners had questioned its possibility, but that his own experiments, as well as Mr. Smith's, had completely disproved the assertion. Mr. Henslow remarked that a gentleman in Warwickshire twenty-five years ago had tried it by binding together two halves of a red and white potato,and that the resulting produce was intermedi-ate in color. Mr. O'Brien said that the attempts to unite bulbs of lilies had as yet completely failed. Mr. Darwin seems to credit the statement of some one that bulbs of Hyacinths of different colors, have been divided, grafted, and produced flowers on one stalk of both kinds. We called attention to this last fall and invited experiments. If any made them, let us know with what results.
 
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