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the fame manner as any other potatoes planted for 

 feed, and agree entirely with them in other refpedhj 

 the largeft in this cafe, as in every other cafe, as in 

 every other cafe, whether cuttings of old potatoes 

 or whole ones be planted, always producing the 

 largeft bulbs and the moil weighty crop. 



As to the notion of their attaining their full fize 

 on the third year, and not before, this feems to have 

 originated merely from inaccurate obfervation. It 

 does not feem pofllble to afiign any precife period 

 at which thefe bulbs will invariably attain perfec- 

 tion, as that muft in general depend on many acci- 

 dental circumftances. It appears that the fize of 

 the bulbs produced in the fecond and third year 

 depend in a great meafure on the bignefs of thole 

 that were planted -, and that this will be influenced 

 by the richnefs of the foil, and the diftance allowed 

 to the feedling plants the firft year. I know no 

 circumftance that could fo well be aflumed as fuch 

 a probable criterion of the potatoe having attained 

 perfection, as that of its pufhing forth flowers and 

 producing feeds properly Jo called. Now, although 

 none of the plants in my experiment produced 

 flowers in the fecond year, yet it is not improbable, 

 that on fome occafions, if the feeds were fown very 

 thin and on a rich foil, the bulbs of the firft year's 

 growth might be much larger than any of thofe 



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