The Amateur Potato Breeder’s Manual Raoul A. Robinson Reader’s note When finalised, this manual will be profusely illustrated with colour photographs. One of the advantages of e-books is that colour illustration is not prohibitively expensive, as it would be with printed books. However, much of the biological material required for these photographs was unavailable at the time of this first publication. It was thought preferable to publish the text as it is, adding the photographs later, than to delay publication until all the pictures were ready. Introduction In France, in 1882, there was a discovery so dramatic that crop scientists have been looking for comparable successes ever since. This discovery was the first fungicide, called Bordeaux mixture, which saved the French wine industry from absolute ruin, and also provided a complete protection of the potato crop from blight. Twelve years later, Mendel’s laws of inheritance were
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