The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 233
Garden. In this potato, while many of the flowers were perfect, and produced fruitwithout any thing remarkable being observed in them, others formed tubersbetween the fruit and the calyx, as is shown in the accompanying cuts, whereJig. 38. represents a cluster of fruit and tubers as they appeared… … In this instance there was no alteration of position, or transformation ofparts into leaves ; but the floral organs, and especially the sepals, evinced thepower, inherent in them as leaves, of producing in their axils buds which grewinto branches in the form of tubers. From the Societys garden,…
