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POTATOE, SWEET. 



POMHE DE TERRE DOUCE. Convolvulus batdta$. 



SPTEET Potatoes are grown to great perfection in the 

 Southern States, and may be raised in the vicinity of New" 

 York, by means of a moderate hot-bed, in which they should 

 be planted whole, early in April, three or four inches deep, 

 and about the same distance apart. In about a month they 

 will throw up sprouts. When these are three inches above 

 ground, part them off from the Potatoe, which, if suffered to 

 remain, will produce more sprouts for a successive planting; 

 transplant them into rich light soil, in rows four feet apart, 

 and the plants about a foot apart, in the rows, or in hills 

 four feet apart. Keep them clear o weeds, until the vines 

 begin to cover the ground, after which they will grow freely. 

 In sandy ground, it is well to put a shovelful of rottem 

 manure to each plant. 



A moderate hot-bed, five feet square, put down early in 

 the month of April, with half a peck of good sound Sweet 

 Potatoes placed therein, will produce a succession of sprouts 

 in May and Jutie, which if planted and managed as directed, 

 will yield about fifteen bushels of good roots. 



PUMPKIN. 



CITROUILLE ou POTIROX. Cucurbita pepo. 



VARIETIES. 



Finest Yellow Family, 

 Large Cheese. 

 Mammoth, or Spanish. 



Connecticut Field. 



White Bell. 



Seven Years, or Long-keeping. 



THIS plant is highly deserving cultivation, particularly in 

 new settlements ; the large sorts are profitable for cattle, as 

 some of the mammoth tribe have been known to weigh 

 upwards of two hundred pounds each ; the other kinds are 

 also very productive, and may be raised on any waste laud, 

 provided it will admit of digging small spots, of a foot or 

 two dimensions, every ten or twelve feet, for the hills, and 



