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Though I mull again obferve, that no accurate conclu- 

 fion can be drawn from the refult of experiment 6th; the 

 unufual great produce of the ftem taken up Auguft 22d, 

 and the fmaller produce of that of the 29th, were probably 

 owing to the larger fize of the cutting in the firft than in 

 the laft, or to fome other unobferved circumftance. This 

 comparifon therefore only affords a probable reafon to fuf- 

 pcc"t, that the plants do increafe fomewhat after they are 

 cut over, though but a little. 



Experiment Eighth. 



To afcertain whether a benefit might in any cafe accrue 

 from replanting the ftems of potatoes that were taken up 

 for an early crop, and to what that might amount, the 

 items of the different plants that were taken up in expe- 

 riment 6th, were all immediately replanted after the bulbs 

 were taken off and weighed. It was found that thefe plants 

 readily took root, and produced another crop of potatoes 

 that feafon, the amount of which, when fuffered to remain 

 in the ground till the 28th of October, and the proportion 

 that this fecond crop bore to the firft, is denoted below : 

 one ftem being in both cafes multiplied by nine, to admit 

 of their being the more readily compared with the refult of 

 the other experiments mentioned in this fec~tion. 



Second produce 

 of nine ftems 

 replanted. 



Auguft ad 

 Auguft 10th 

 Auguft 17th 

 Auguft zzd 

 Auguft 29th 

 September 5th 



lb. ox. 



Tornupbyacc'ld. 



2 n£ 



I 2 



9, 

 o 42 

 o 4* 



It thus appears that a fmall quantity of potatoes may be 

 obtained by replanting the ftems, if taken up at a very early 



period j. 



