1 82 OBober 1748. 



The foil mull be a mixture of fand and earth, 

 and neither too rich, nor too poor. When 

 they are going to plant them, they cut them, 

 as the common potatoes, taking care how- 

 ever that a bud or two be left upon each 

 piece which is intended to be planted. 

 Their colour is commonly red without, and 

 yellow within. They are bigger than the 

 common fort, and have a fweet and very 

 agreeable tafte, which I cannot find in the 

 other potatoes, in artichokes or in any 

 other root, and they almofc melt in the 

 mouth. It is not long fince they have been 

 planted here. They are dreffed in the 

 fame manner as commom potatoes, and 

 eaten either along with them, or by them- 

 felves. They grow very fafl and very well 

 here - 3 but the greateft difficulty confifts in 

 keeping them over winter, for they will bear 

 neither cold, nor a great heat, nor wet. 

 They mufl therefore be kept during winter 

 in a box with fand in a warm room. In 

 Penfyfoania where they have no valves in 

 their chimnies, they are put in fuch a box 

 with fand, at fome diftance from the fire, 

 and there they are fecured both againfl frofl 

 and againfl over great heat. It will not 

 anfwer the purpofe to put them into dry 

 fand in a cellar, as is commonly done with 

 the common fort of potatoes. For the 



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