On Corn and Potatoes. 337 
latter die nearly as soon in the shade of the rows 
as the early sorts. I have tried a variety, and find 
none answer near so well as a kind which are said to 
have came originally from Rhode Island; they are not 
as soon fit for the table as the earliest variety, but by 
harvest are as large, and soon attain perfection; only 
few grow at the root, and those mostly large and closely 
set to the stem, and will produce large crops if planted 
very close in the row; if planted among corn, they 
should be first put in, that they may get as forward as 
possible before the shade of the rows becomes. inju- 
rious. 
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