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If any ftalks happen to be too long at the time of 

 planting, they may be cut fliort Hke a cabbage plant, 

 and they will grow equally well. 



It would be a fatisfaftion to me to have your can- 

 did opinion of this. 



I am, Sir, 

 your obedient humble fervant, 



J. BARTON. 



April 2 2, 1795. 



N. B. This method of raifing potatoes, by the Rev. 

 Mr. B. feems to merit the Society's attention, and that of 

 the publick, particularly at this feafon. 



A. FOTHERGILL. 



Art. XXXVI. 



A Letter 'from Thomas South, efq; of Boffington, 

 explaining his reafons for delaying the publication of 

 his long-expe6led Treatife on Wall-Fruit Trees. 



DEAR SIR, BoJJington, OB. iitk, 1795. 



'VT'OU having, with the moft benevolent intention, 

 -■- inferted in the fixih volume of the Bath Me- 

 moirs a private letter of mine, which may have led 

 the publick to expeft a Treatife on the cultivation of 

 VOL. VIII. B B Wall- 



