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rnd of which rots, and will have a good ftems the 

 other end is hard, and will have a curled ftem. 



Several perfons have Town feed in old tilled 

 gardens, in hopes to have potatoes free from the 

 curl; but wherever they planted them next year, 

 they have been curled. 



All the good potatoes he faw this year, either on 

 frefh ley land, or on old tilled land, were raifed 

 from fets that grew upon frefh ley land laft year; 

 and where he has feen curled potatoes, he found, 

 upon enquiry, the potatoe fets grew upon old tilled 

 and worn-out land laft year. He gives as a general 

 reafon for the diforder, that the land is oftener 

 cropped than it had ufed to be, much more corn 

 being now raifed thar^ formerly. 



L E T T E R V. 



IN 177s, this writer plantecf fome potatoes by 

 accident full nine inches deep: when taken up, 

 many of the plants were rotted, and a few curled. 

 He kept the whole produce for (ttdy and planted 

 tfwQ acres with it in 1773, not quite fix inches deep; 

 the crop was amazingly greats and he did not ob*^ 

 ferve any curled plants among them. In 1774, 

 many of thefe were planted in different foils, yet 

 they were fo infeded with the curled difeafe, that 



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