improvements in the culture of vegetables. 5« 



Certificates. 



A certificate from Miles Ponsonby, Esq., of Hail Hall, Certificate* of 

 testified, that he had seen Mr. Curwen's statement of the the benefit* ac 

 rapid progress made by his cabbages in the month of June Mr <j ur wen** 

 1807; that he perfectly recollects viewing them on the Mon- plan. 

 day, and again on Saturday in the same week ; that the im- 

 provement in the appearance of the plants was so great, that 

 he imagined the land had been replanted, till Mr. Curweu 

 explained the cause, which had produced so great a change. 



That he considers Mr. Curwen's plan of managing his 

 potatoes and cabbages as very good garden husbandry, and 

 the best calculated for keeping the land clean, improving 

 the plant, and at the same time enriching the ground, of 

 any that he had observed ; and though the mode is entirely 

 new there, he has no doubt but it will be found beneficial, 

 and that it will in a few years be much attended to. 



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A Certificate from Mr. y D. Campbell, Secretary to the 

 Kendal Agricultural Society, stated, that he had attende4 

 to the cultivation of potatoes in most parts of Lancashire, 

 and could speak with the greatest precision respecting it in 

 that part of the country which is north of Lancaster. 



That whether they were planted in the lazybed way, by 

 the dibble, or with the plough, they were always set in roivs 

 from one end of a field, or piece of ground, to the other end 

 or side, with narrower or wider intervals, as the cultivator 

 might deem best suited to the kind of potato he was raisings 

 That he never before saw or heard of their being cultivated 

 in beds, in the manner practised and described by Mr. Cur- 

 wen, and that being more particularly desirous to ascertain 

 whether any such method was pursued in the great potato 

 district which lies south-west from Lancaster, including 

 Pilling, the Felde, RufTord, and the neighbourhood of Pres- 

 ton, he applied to George Clayton, Esq., of Lostock Hall, 

 and Robert Hesketh, Esq., of Warrington Hall, gentlemen 

 upon whose accuracy the utmost dependance may be placed, 

 and who informed him, that neither from their own know- 

 ledge, nor from inquiries they have made, can they learn 



that 





