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ART. IX. | 
On the Cultivation of Porarozsfrom the Rind, &c. 
¥n Letters to the SECRETARY. 
(By.the Rey. Epwarp Wuuittte.) 
SIR, Odstock, near Salisbury, March 14, 1196: 
S information, whether it be the refult of feien- 
- tific refearches, or that of a more fimple 
nature, founded upon experience and well’attefted, 
has always been thought advantageous to the public; 
J have ventured to fend to you (for the perufal of 
your refpeétable and very ufeful Society) the follow- 
ing letter; and if it fhould at all tend to the good 
of the community, my end will be abundantly an- 
fwered. And farther, if the Society fhould be of 
opinion that it may, they are at liberty to publith ir, 
with my name and place of abode. 
“Perhaps, amongft all the various kinds of infor- 
mation, there may be times and feafons, when that 
which is the moft fimple may be of the moft general 
ufe, becaufe it can be more eafily and more effeétu- 
ally communicated; and by every defcription of 
them, with greater facility, carried into praétice. 
“Notwitliftanding the confiderate goodnefs of the 
Society, in informing the publick of the cheapeft 
method of raifing potatoes, and at this time to plant 
more than ufual, the growers of that ufeful root are, 
in general, fo bigotted, or rather wedded, to their 
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