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feveral deep flices, fo as to reduce them to an equal weight 

 with the former, taking care not to cut out or wound any 

 of the eyes. Plant thefe in eqnal circumftances, and ob- 

 icrve the refult. 



3^//y. Repeat the experiment of the 7th and 8th rows of 

 experiment fecond, with proper caution: fori have afuf- 

 picion,that in my experiment the eyes in the plants of the 

 7th row had not been cut out deep enough, to prevent 

 them from fending forth ftems, 



^tbly. Take fome large flefhy cuttings, with one eye only 

 in each, all of an equal fize, and having fe]e#ed an equal 

 number of whole potatoes, equal in weight to thofe cut- 

 tings, plant them, and obferve the refult. 



[Since the above was written, other avocations have pre- 

 vented me from repeating thefe, and many other experi- 

 ments propofed in this elTay. To fome the importance of 

 thefe experiments will appear doubtful, and many will feel 

 a ftrong propenfity to foretel what would be the refult, and 

 therefore will think it unneceflary to prove it by actual trial. 

 This prefumptuous propenfity has tended in a wonderful 

 degree to retard the progrefs of agriculture, and cannot be 

 too cautioufly guarded againft. Before we can attempt to 

 make any decifive experiments on the bell method of culti- 

 vating this plant, fo as to obtain in every fituation the great- 

 eft poilible crop that circumftances admit of, all thefe pre- 

 vious queftions muft be fully difcufled. From the few 

 experiments above recorded, we are enabled to perceive in 

 what manner many hitherto inexplicable peculiarities re- 

 corded concerning the culture of this valuable plant may be 

 accounted for, that have been explained far otherwife. 



Tho' it does not appear probable that the mere wound- 

 ing the bulbs will affecT: the crop, yet it is certainly within 



the 



