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Article I. 



Mifcellaneous Experiments and Obfervations on 

 the Culture of Potatoes, and feme other 

 Plants; written originally in the year 1778, 

 with feme additional Remarks of a later date. 

 By James Anderson, L. L. D. F. R. & 

 and F.S.A. Scot. 



PAPER FIRST. 



ON THE NATURE OF THE SEEDS MOST PROPER FOR 

 BEING PLANTED, 



THE Potatoe has been cultivated in Britain 

 for half a century paft, with great advan- 

 tage to the community 5 but many parti- 

 culars refpedting its culture are ftill involved in un- 

 certainty. To point out the means by which that 

 uncertainty may, in fome cafes, be removed, is the 

 chief defign of the following eflay. 



§• I. 



Among other particulars, it ftill remains a doubt 

 with practical farmers, whether it is mod pro- 

 fitable to ufe fmall potatoes uncut for feed, or large 



B 4 ones 



