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» Inthe year.1793, when the fervant was digging 
up my potatoes, befides thofe fit for eating, I difcos 
vered a great number about the fize of a walnut, and 
rom that to a-hazel nut, which I ordered to'be left 
in the ground. In the fpring of 1794 my two po- 
tatoe beds. were irregularly covered with greens, 
which iprung from thefe {mall potatoes; I therefore 
prepared, about the middle of April (for, on ac- 
count of the coldnefs. of the land, I have-always had 
the beft crops from potatoes planted at that time) two 
other beds, about the fame fize, into which I tranf- 
planted thefe greens; about 1-third of which had the 
teed hanging to them, and about 2-thirds had not, 
having dropped off in drawing; with thefe I planted 
one bed and an half, and made up the other half bed 
partly with whole, and partly with potatoes cut in 
the common way, fome in drills, and fome planted in 
holes made with afetting-ftick; and I have to ftate, 
that we were as exaét as poffible (without weighing 
or meafuring) in our obfervations, and we could not 
difcern the leaft difference in the production; and 
the crop, to all appearance, was quite as good from 
the fhoots as from. the whole or the cut potatoe; and 
Lam, convinced, there is not the leaft neceflity for 
planting the potatoe, in order to raife a crop; as the 
tind, or fhoots, will produce one, equally. as good. 
The reafon which induced me to make out the re- 
maining half bed with whole and cut potatoes, W yhen. 
I before was fatisfied that the rind would anfwer the 
end, was, that if I had told my neighbours that the 
fhoots produced as good a crop as the rind, and the 
rind 
