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have found to anfwer all the encomiums that gen- 

 tleman has beftowcd on it. 



My reafons for making this propofal are, 



ift. It perfeflly coincides with a material part of 

 your benevolent plan to increafe the quantity of 

 food for the poor: As an acre cannot be planted in 

 the common method for Icfs than twenty-four or 

 twenty-five fhillings, the mere purchafe of the roots; 

 t;he procuring plants from feed will not ooft more 

 than ?iVQ (hillings :* So that Potatoes of the beft 

 kinds, to the amount of twenty fhillings an acre, 

 will be annually prefcrved for food, inftead of being 



• The principal advantage arifing from ralfing Potatoes from feed, 

 will be the obtaining a better or larger fpccles, which will be more 

 profitable in its cultivation for fome years, than a fpecies planted for 

 many years together, without change: But furely no immediate ad- 

 vantage can happen to the planter! Let the oppofed accounts afccrtaia 

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