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They should afterwards be managed as other 

 shrubby exotic greenhouse plants. 



These plants are verv ornamental among other 

 potted plants : and the first is cultivated tor the 

 fruit as a pickle : the fourth is also ornamental 

 in the border-, fee. 



Culture in the Potaioe Kind. — The last sort is 

 highly valuable for its tubetous esculent root, 

 which is well known under the title of Potaioe. 



These roots nuv be obtained f r use plenti- 

 fully almost the year round : the early sorts 

 being planted forward in the spring, often af- 

 ford tolerable crops tit to take up in June and 

 Julv following, especially in rich warm grounds; 

 but the main crops are permitted to continue 

 growing till autumn, as about the latter end of 

 October or beginning of November, when the 

 stalks or haulm begin to decay, when the roots 

 irill be arrived to full maturity ; and being 

 then taken out of the ground, and housed in 

 some close dry apartment, keep in good per- 

 fection for eating all winter and spring, until 

 the arrival of the new crops in the tollowing 

 summer. 



All the varieties may be cultivated with suc- 

 cess in anv open situation. Thev delight in a 

 moderately light dry soil and open situation, 

 which should be enriched and rendered light 

 with dung. 



The plants are increased by the root, either 

 whole or cut in pieces, each cutting forming a 

 proper set or plant : but they may likewise be 

 raised from seed to gain new varieties. 



The general season for planting is from 

 about the middle or the latter end of February 

 to the middle of April ; the early sorts, for for- 

 ward crops, being planted in the latter end of 

 February or earlv in March, but for the general 

 crops, March, and the first fortnight in April, 

 is the most proper planting season, especially 

 in moist land, as, if planted earlier, and much 

 wet should succeed, it would rot the sets, more 

 particularly if cuttings : though in cases of ne- 

 cessity, where the ground is not ready, they may 

 be planted anv time in April, or even in May, 

 and yield tolerab'e crops by October. 



The ground should be dug over for the recep- 

 tion of the plants to one full spade deep. 



As to the planting, it may be pcrfoimed by 

 means of a dibble, by holeing in with a spade, 

 or drilling in with a hoe, bedding in, &c. in 

 rows two feet asunder, twelve or fifteen inches 

 distant in each row, and not more than four or 

 five inches deep. 



.Dittle-plunting. — This is performed either 

 with a common large garden dibble, blunted at the 

 bottom, making holes, about four or live inches 

 deep, at the distance before mentioned, drop- 



ping r>ne set in each hole as yr>u go on, and 

 striking the earth over Ihent. 



The surface of the ground shou'd after.vards 

 be raked perfectly even. 



Drill-planting. — In this mode the drills niav 

 be formed either with a large hoe, two Feel 

 asunder, and lour or live inches deep, in which 

 drop the sets, a foot asunder, and cover tin. in 

 in with the earth equally the depth of the drill. 



Holing-in planting — This is performed with 

 a spade. A man having a light handy spade, 

 and beginning at one end of the line, takes out 

 a -pii of earth, forms a small aperture four or 

 five inches deep, another person directly follow- 

 ing after drops a set in the hole, the earth of the 

 next spit immediately covers it up, and so on to 

 the end. 



Furrow-planting. — This is performed by the 

 spade, by turning over or taking out a spit of 

 earth all along, putting in the dung, and then 

 dropping the sets in the furrow immediately 

 upon it, and with the next spit turning the earth 

 in upon the sets of the lirst; and in another fur- 

 row, two feet from this, dropping another rosv of 

 sets, which are covered in as above, and so on till 

 the whole is finished. 



Trenching- in. — This is sometimes practised in 

 light ground, and is effected as the person pro- 

 ceeds in digging or trenching the ground, being 

 trenched in the common way, each trench two 

 spades wide, and one spade deep, placing one 

 row of potatoes in each trench : beginning at 

 one end of the ground, opening a trench the pro- 

 per width and depth, as above, then paring id 

 the top of tne next trench deeply, putting it 

 with some good dung in the bottom of the first, 

 levelling it evenly, then digging along about 

 half the width of the next or second trench, 

 turning the earth into the first upon the dung, 

 only two or three inches in depth, and upon 

 which lay the potatoe-sets in a row along the 

 middle a foot or more asunder ; then digging 

 along the rest or w hole width of the said second 

 trench a moderate spade deep, turning the earth 

 of it into the first trench, oxer the sets, three or 

 four inches deep; this done, dung the bottom of 

 the open trench, and proceed with the digging 

 and planting as before; and thus continue trench 

 and trench to the end. 



/.'■ f ding- in. — This is sometimes done in low 

 wettish land, for the sake of raising the beds, 

 and sinking the alleys deep enough to drain off 

 the too copious moisture, and is thus per- 

 formed : The ground is divided into four, five, 

 or mx feet wide beds, with alleys two or three 

 feet wide between bed and bed; and the beds 

 being dug. the notatoe sets are placed upon the 

 surface in rows lengthwise ; and then the alleys 



