The following scrap is from, the Cottage Gardener, and signed by a man of multifarious accomplishments: -

"The most perfect indifference" is shown by the new Yam to "the most rigorous seasons;" it is most perfectly hardy. The evidence is most conclusive to prove that the bigger the "sets" or seed, the larger will the crop dig out. All potting, and all fiddling with it, is a perfect waste of time. Trench the ground as deep as for parsnips, and put in spanking long Yams in the first week in March, and let them alone entirely for the rest of the season. D. Beatov".

The Yam #1

The fitness of the plant for garden purposes, says the London Gardener's Chronicle, is now incontestable; and we are glad to be able to add that means now exist of attempt-ing to improve its qualities, by rendering it more hardy, or more productive. We are informed by M. Duchartre, in a paper recently read before the Horticultural Society Of Paris, that among some Yams sent by M. de Montigny from China to the Imperial nursery of Algeria, a female made its appearance. All the others had proved males. Ripe seeds were produced by the female; other females were raised in Paris from the Algerine seeds; and they too have seeded, so that we now possess the usual means of operating experimentally upon the Chinese stranger. It appears certain that this Yam is one of the plants that, like the Potato and the Turnip, are prone to alter their habits under the influence of domestication. We therefore trust, that our skillful breeders will immediately take it in hand. They cannot undertake a task more likely to abound in great results.