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of the fize of fmall hen's egg's : [And I once met 

 with a chiller of that kind of potatoes, confirming 

 of about twenty bulbs, that occupied the place of 

 potatoe-apples, fpringing all from one foot-ftalk 

 that adhered to the ftem, precifely in the fame way 

 with that which fupports the bloflbm and feed 



vefiels. This I have ftill in my poflefiion.] 



Nature feems here to indicate, that the items ought 

 to be covered in part with earth to blanch them, 

 (potatoes that grow below ground, if laid bare 

 while in their growing ftate, afiiime the fame green 

 appearance) which would probably in thefe kinds 

 augment the crop confiderably; although with re- 

 gard to fuch kinds as have no tendency to produce 

 bulbs along the item, the operation of covering 

 them would probably be much lefs beneficial. Care, 

 therefore, fhould be taken to felecl: the firft of thefe 

 kinds of potatoes, where it is intended to rear them, 

 after the Irifh fafhion, in lazy beds. 



I have mentioned this tendency to produce po- 

 tatoes on the ftems above ground, as one means for 

 ditlinguifhing different kinds from each other} for 

 although a few kinds are endowed with this quality 

 of producing bulbs above ground, in the fame way 

 as fome peafe that produce pods both above and 

 under ground; yet this in the one cafe as well as 



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