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the fcts in without breaking off any of the fprouts, 

 for the fccond will not be fo vigorous. 



This accounts for one fprout out of three from 

 the fanne fet being curled. The two ftems not 

 curled rofe fronn two later eyes, and were firft 

 fprouts. The fprout curled was a fecond^ the firft 

 having been rubbed off. 



t E r T E R XIV. 



THIS writer fays, that hft fpring one of his 

 neighbours cut and fet, in the ufual way of drilling, 

 fbme loads of the largefl: potatoes he could procure^ 

 and nnore than half of them proved curkd. Being 

 a few fets Ihort of the quantity wanted, he planted 

 fome very fmall potatoes, which he had laid by for 

 the pigs, Thefe being fully ripe and foUd, there 

 was not a curled plant among them. 



He apprehends, the others being curled was 

 owing to their not being fully ripe. A crop of 

 potatoes, fet this year in rows, on ground that had 

 borne a crop of them laft year, were moftly curled ^ 

 but many plants came up from feed left in the 

 ground laft fcsifon* and there was not a curled one 

 among them, 



LETTER 



