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are. None of them were very fmall, and few were 

 very large; buc moftly of a good full middling 

 fixe, fit either for the table or planting. Not a 

 plant in this crop was Curled, or infedted with 

 any difeafe* 



I am, &c. 

 Bath, May i, 1783. T. B. 



[N. B. Favourable as the above crop may appear to the late plant- 

 ing of potatoes, we wifh not to recommend that practice. In the 

 prefent inftance we arc inclined to believe, the uncommon wetnefs of 

 the feafon was the principal caufe of the crop being fo large. Had the 

 fummer proved dry, we think this gentleman's experiment would have 

 proved a loiing one; as the plants would naturally have been fo flow 

 ©f growth, as for the autumn frofts to check them before they could 

 arrive at full maturity. We confider the beginning of May the beft 

 feafon for planting potatoes on a large fcale ; they have then a chance 

 of every advantage which the variety of the feafon affords, without 

 being in any danger of fuffering from early growth by late fpring froftij 

 which (as has been the cafe this feafon) often cut off thofe planted ia 

 the beginning of April.] 



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