14 Change of Seed unnecessary. 



kind, planted at the same time, and with every equal 

 advantage, beyond my expectation, in size, shape, and 

 quantitj i by continuing the practice, I am satisfied that 

 I have been fully compensated, for all the additional 

 ti'ouble. 



A circumstcyice happened respecting potatoes, which 

 may be worth relating : a woman whom I met in mar- 

 ket, requested me to bring half a bushel of sweet pota- 

 toes for seed, the next market day, which I promised 

 to do, but going through the market on that day, pre- 

 vious to her son's coming for the potatoes, I observed 

 the woman selling such as I had brought for her ; when 

 the boy came, I asked him the reason they wanted po- 

 tatoes for seed, Mhile they were selling their o^v^1 ; his 

 answer was, that his father said, if they did not get 

 seed from me, once in three or four years, their potatoes 

 would be good for nothing. Querj^, if he had used the 

 same means in selecting his potatoes for planting, as I 

 did, whether he would have profited by changing with 

 one who used the other method? 



In discoursing with a friend who lived at a great dis- 

 tance from me, on the above subject, he mentioned a 

 fact in favour of changing seed. Some radish seed 

 which he had from me, produced radishes preferable 

 to any thing of the kind ever seen in that neighbour- 

 hood which was near 100 miles distant : but in two or 

 three }'ears, the radishes degenerated so as to be no 

 better than what he had before ; I asked his method of 

 saving his seed ; he said he had no other radishes m his 

 garden, and when they had pulled what was fit for use, 

 let the others go to seed. I then told him my method, 

 viz. — As soon as the radishes are fit for use, I dig up 



