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tween the plants, beginning at twelve inches ; as that is 

 furely as little as ever could be judged necefTary for plants 

 of the fize here fpecified. The diftance between the plants 

 in the other fquares to increafe as in the table below. 



Plants weighing ten pounds per fcore. 



In the i ft fquare to be placed at 1 2" 



2d dittto at 



3 i — 



4th — 



5 th 



6th - 



7th 



8th ' - 



9th 



10th — 



nth 



12th — 



13th 



*3 



15 



16 



17 

 18 



1Q - 



20 



21 

 22 



23 



24J 



In the 14th fquare to. be at 25" 



Which it is imagined will be the 

 greateft diftance that need be tried. • 



Let all thefe plants be carefully hoed and attended to, 

 and when the plants have attained a perfect maturity, let 

 the produce of each fquare (or of fuch proportion of it as 

 Ihould be thought proper) be carefully weighed. The re- 

 sult would fhew, with fome degree of precifion, what 

 would be the diftance at which feeds of the fize here fpe- 

 cified ought to be planted, fo as to yield the greateft crop 

 on a given extent of ground. But, as it is highly pro- 

 bable that the refult of this experiment would be different 

 if it were tried on rich and on poor foils, it would be pro- 

 per to have it feveral times repeated, trying it on the richeft 

 and moft highly manured fpots, and on others declining 

 from that till they approached to as great a degree of fte- 

 rility as this crop could be profitably reared on. Thus 

 would the farmer come to know the proper diftance at 

 which he ought to plant his potatoes in all cafes. The 



other 



