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Where a crop of potatoes fails in part, (as will 

 fometimes be the cafe in a dry fcafon) amends 

 may ftill be made by laying a little dung upon the 

 knots of the ftraw or haulm of thofe potatoes that 

 do appear, and covering them with mould; each 

 knot or joint thus ordered will, if the weather 

 prove wet afterwards, produce more potatoes than 

 the original roots. 



1 have raifed potatoes from the apples that grow 

 on the haulm, but they were very fmall the firll 

 year, though I found them much increafe in fize, 

 when they were planted again the fecond year; 

 but I do not think they will ever anfvver any 

 good purpofe. ' 



I obtained the lad year from the fmalleft pota- 

 toes planted whole, from four to fix pounds at a 

 root, and fome of the fingle potatoes weighed near 

 two pounds. Thefe were dug in as before men- 

 tioned, in trenches where the ground was covered 

 with weeds, and the foil was a Itiff loamy clay. I 

 know thefe fmall potatoes are held in contempt for 

 planting, by thofe whofe prejudice will not fuffcr 

 them to try experiments; but I can afTure them, 

 that they will upon trial fully anfwer their expec- 

 tations; though I advife by no means to dibble in 

 potatoes, as the perfon who ufcs the dibble treads 



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