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enough to produce the very best quality of Potatoes, 
free from disease, clean and good. 
Now I reckon upon two pounds of new Potatoes 
to every square foot throughout the whole border, for 
the leaf-mould will produce them nearly all of one 
size, and rapidly too. Two pounds to every square 
foot of the border would be five hundred and forty 
pounds weight per rod or perch, and if the border con- 
tains one thousand six hundred square feet in it (that 
is, nearly six perches of ground), that will be three 
thousand two hundred pounds weight of Potatoes from 
the border annually, which would be ready for market 
by the beginning of May, at, say, 6d. per pound. 
That is 80/1. exactly; yet I am of opinion that this 
is not an over-estimate, because if they are treated as I 
have said, I see no reason why two pounds of saleable 
new Potatoes should not be obtained from every square 
foot of the border, and they would certainly realise 6d. 
per pound if they were as good and fine as they could 
possibly be had. But allowing a good margin for less 
produce, and net proceeds of say 20/., even then we 
have a good remunerative balance in favour of the 
grower. 
Then there is the crop that can be had from the 
same border after the Potatoes are off, which may con- 
sist of ridge or hardy frame Cucumbers, and these 
would really require nothing more than planting and 
well watering with clean water, and a weekly one with 
some liquid manure. An abundance of fine Cucum- 
bers would be obtained from this border through the 
summer. Afterwards come the Grapes, which, at the 
lowest figure, might be put at one thousand pounds, to 
sell at 1s. per pound. Thus I can see, and I want others 
