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In many places the inhabitants are obliged, from the 

 wetnefs and poverty of the foil, to defer planting 

 their potatoes till late in the fummer, too late to have 

 any confiderable produce. I do imagine that this 

 mode of culture would fucceed much better in fuch 

 cafes than the common method, for there would be 

 no danger of the flalks rotting in moid ground, as 

 the feed potatoes are apt to do, and alfo lefs manure 

 would be neceffary. I take it alfo, that there would 

 be a confiderable faving in labour in this method of 

 cultivation; for a field defigned for potatoes could 

 be prepared in the fame manner as a field for cab- 

 bages, and planted out in the fame manner. 



It has one advantage over Mr. Maunsell's 

 plan, or fetting from the fhoot; becaufe I am in- 

 formed, that crops in his mode of culture are liable 

 to fail in particular feafons. This, I fuppofe, will 

 never be the cafe in my method, Becaufe nothing, 

 I imagine, can materially injure the (talks but froft. 

 Now this inconvenience can be eafily avoided, be- 

 caufe they need not be planted till all biting frofls 

 are over j any time from the middle of March to the 

 middle of June will anfwer for this purpofe. For 

 a perfon told me, who took the hint from me, that 

 in weeding his potatoes lad fummer, he pulled out 

 the lateral ftalks from the main ones, in order to 

 ilrengthen the latter, and planted them out in my 

 method, juft as they were opening into bloflbm; 

 and that he had an excellent crop from them. 



