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to be the forts mofl in demand in that market* 

 One of them was the kidney fort defcribed by the 

 Do6lor, and I think one of the bcfl kinds yet known 

 for the table. The other was a round, white^ fair 

 potatoe, the name of which I never learnt, biit it 

 was a very good one. The firft year of planting, 

 the produce exadtly correfpondcd with the fcts, but 

 the fecond, that abovementioned was fo much im- 

 proved as quite to confound my judgment. This 

 pleafing amendment can be imputed to nothing 

 elfe but the weight and fize of the fets planted. In 

 this I was rather particular, fufFering in general 

 none to be planted lefs than a large pullet's egg ; 

 the larger fizes were cut into two, and the largeft 

 into four pieces. 



For fome three or four years pad, I have alfo 

 made fome trials of raifing potatoes from feed. The 

 events of my trials differ confiderably from thofe of 

 the ingenious Dodlor. The firft year I had fome 

 bulbs as large as a pullet*s egg, but I did not then 

 remark any variety of forts. The largeft of thefe 

 were preferved, and planted the following April. 

 The Odlober following they were carefully dug up, 

 and were as large in general as thofe produced from 

 old bulbs ', many of them from half a pound to a 

 pound and upwards. Among thefe, very contrary 

 to what happened to the Dodor in his experiments, 

 D 2 there 



