8.8 Cultivation of Arable Land. Potatoes. Varieties of Sells proper for. 



The old winter red is an excellent variety for the table i:i the fpring, when 

 moil other forts have loft their flavour, and are become unfit for ufe by fprout- 

 ing. It is faid likewifs to have the property of not being liable to the curl. 



The blacks are likewife a late fort, which keep well till about Auguft. 



As cattle potatoes, the ox noble and the clujlcr are the varieties principally 

 cultivated, as they are both large in fize and very productive. 



The white and apple forts are however mo ft proper for being made ufe of in 

 the early part of the feafon. And the pink-eyes and capper-plates are of a hardy 

 nature, and probably capable of being grown with lefs perfect culture than moil 

 of the other varieties. But though a number of trials have been made in order 

 to determine the differences in the produclivenefs of the different varieties, yet 

 from the effects which the differences of foil, climate, culture, and other caufes 

 produce, the matter has not been decided with much corredlnefs.* The royal 

 or Cumberland early is very productive and of a large lize, with a good flavour ; 

 and betides, it ripens early. 



The foil in which this root is capable of being produced to the greateft ad 

 vantage is a rich loam of the light fandy kind, that pofTefles a medium degree 

 of moifture. They may, however, be grown with fuccefs on lands that are 



Smith s fecdlings, Broughtoi/s dwarfs, 



Foxe s ditto, Hatley s nonefuch, 



Bofkow s kidneys, Early perrins, 



Enghfli champions, Forcing dwarfs, 



P.rition s dwarfs, Early Manleys. 



Bates s ditto, 



I. ate kinds. 



American white rangers. Ox noble, 



Ditto red ditto, Lords, 



Derbyfhirereds, Seedling varieties, 



Late champions, Balmer s feedlings, 



Ditto kidney, Budworth s duiters, 



Pink eyes, Irifli apples, 



Pink-nofed kidneys, Winter kidneys. 



*The produfts i the experiments of Mr. Young, with the three following forts, under the fame 

 management, iu the drill method, were theie : 



Kinds. Produce. 



Clufter 360 bufliels. 



Red-nofed kidney 144 



Golden tags e 20 ^ 



