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§. VI. 



By comparing No. 6th and 7th with No. 8th, in 

 experiments fecond and third, there is fome room to 

 fufpect that the feeds may poflibly have been in- 

 jured by the wounds they received in having their 

 eyes cut out, as the produce in No. 6th and 7th 

 does not feem to be quite fo great in proportion to 

 the feed as in No. 8th; But this difference is not 

 fo confiderable as to enable us to fpeak with any 

 degree of certainty. Had it even been greater than 

 it is, there would (till have been room to doubt 

 whether it had been occafioned merely by wounding 

 the feeds, or in part alfo by diminifhing the number 

 of the eyes. The following experiments would tend 

 to elucidate thefe particulars : 



< 1/?. Take any determinate number of potatoes, all ( of one 

 fort, and of an equal weight each, and having ieparated 

 them into two equal parts, plant all thofe of one divifion 

 wholes and let all the "plants of the other divifion before 

 planting, be wounded with a knife in many places, without 

 cutting out any of the eyes. Obferve the refult. 



idly*. Take, in the- fame manner, another determinate 

 number of potatoes, of the fame foi t, all of equal weight, 

 and having felecled an equal number of the fame kind of 

 potatoes fomewhat larger each than the former, wound 

 thefe laft deeply in various places, and cut out from them 



whether it could by any peculiarity of culture be brought to equal that from fmall, 

 my experiments, which have been interrupted by Other atocations, do not enable 

 mc to fay— but it is not at all improbable. 



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