46 EEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



Trill be, first, to select, when practicable, somewhat elevated fields for 

 potatoes, and where such specially favorable selections are not availa- 

 ble, to plant in drills so widely apart that a clear space will be left be- 

 tween the rows, so as to guard against the production of a dense cover- 

 ing of foliage over the entire surface, and permit a free circulation of 

 air through and among the plants. 



WILLIAM SAUNDEES, 

 • Horiiculturist, Pomologist, Landsca])e Gardener^ 



and Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds. 



lion. FoRMAN J. CoLMAN, Commissioner. 



