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quire fome portion of time to acquire their former 

 health and rigour, confequently this check, accord- 

 ing w the number of rqx:titions, will proportion- 

 oWy retard the maturity of the grain. Nor is this 

 rcflfoning from theory, but aiftual experience ; and 

 that the cultivator of this extraordinary produce was 

 well aware of thefe fads, is evident : for the grain 

 6(f wheat was committed to the earth, if I recoiled: 

 liruly, in June, four months previous to the natu- 

 ral feafon of fowing this fpecies of grain j fo that it 

 had this length of time, or nearly two feafons, or 

 one fummer in advance, as it were, to aid thefe 

 fcveral checks or drawbacks on vegetation. 



From the foregoing premifes it fhould feem, that 

 although the fad may be pradicable by the dili- 

 gently curious, it can never bfceome ufefiil to the 

 pradical cultivator. Far- from depreciating thefe 

 ingenious trials of perfevering induftry and fkilli 

 they may be produdive of utility, and ought to be 

 recorded. Hints generate hints; and the experi- 

 ment under confideration has produced the follow- 

 irtg, of fcparating the different branches from a 

 fingle potatoe, and replanting each item thus di- 

 vided, and taken from the original ict. Whether 

 this pradice will be produdive of any good, re- 

 mains to be afcertained, as this experiment is only 

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