1/0 On cultivaluig in Great Britain the Papaver somiiijeriaii, 



opium in the space of an hour ; but as my professional avocations 

 prevented me from leszulaily superintending the people at work, 

 they did not gather so much as I expected. I ascertained, how- 

 ever, that they could gather at the rate of one drachm in the 

 hour. 



< I had my poppies sown in three different ways.. The first 

 broad-cast upon beds three feet wide with an alley hetwcen, and 

 thinned out to the distance of four and five inches, when the 

 plants were about two inches high above the ground. The se- 

 cond on beds three feet wide, in rows, six rows to a bed, and six 

 iiK'hes between the plants. The third on the spaces between 

 rows of asparagus, two rows of poppies on each space, eight inches 

 between each row, and six iiiches between the plants ; two feet 

 four inches between each double row of poppies being occupied 

 by the asparagus. 



The first produced only one capsule, the second two, and the 

 third three capsules per plant. 



Having ascertained that the white poppy, when cultivated upon 

 the wide drill ])lan that I have adopted, not only yields more cap- 

 sules, but much larger ones than when cultivated in the broad- 

 cast vvay, or in close rows ; it is evident there must be a great 

 saving of labour, for it will take as mucli time to gather the juice 

 from a small head, as it would do to collect three times the quan- 

 tity of juice from a large liead. 



The [)lants between the asparagus rows having more room to 

 grow, had not onlv more capsules, but they were much larger than 

 those sown broad- coast, or in beds in close rows; and as early 

 potatoes, cultivated in a piece of ground adjoining my crop, were 

 sold for a high price before my plants began to flower, I proposed 

 the following year to have, by this mode of culture, the same 

 tjuantirv of ojjiiim with a crop of early potatoes, as I obtained 

 from an equal measurement of ground where there was nothing 

 but poppies. 



Accordingly, in ISIS I selected a piece of ground in the highest 

 state of cultivation, well manured with horse-dung, in which I 

 planted early potatoes, in rows four feet wide. Furrows were 

 first drawn ; in these furrows the dung was laid ; then the sets 

 were dropped on the dung, about nine inches asunder, and co- 

 vered by the hoe. The potatoes were planted the first week of 

 February; and the poppies were sown about the middle of April, 

 on the middle space between the potatoe rows, two rows of pop- 

 pies oil each S])acc, and twelve inches between the rows. When 

 the poppv plants were about two inches above the ground, they 

 were at first thinned out by the hoe, and afterwards by the fin- 

 gers to the distance of eight inches between the plants. 



In this manner I raised h crop of early potatoes equal to thirty- 

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