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SECTION XX. 

 POTATOES 



ARE an abundant crop on moft kinds 

 of garden land, but they are clean- 

 eft on light loams. In gardening, the 

 ground is fometimes manured forth'is crop, 

 and fometimes not ; if fo, a moderate dung- 

 ing with any of the kinds beft adapted to 

 the nature of the foil, will generally anfwer* 



The obje<S, in gardening, is generally a 

 few early ones, except fometimes for the 

 faRe of changing crops. For this purpofe, 

 plant of any of the early kinds on a warm 

 border, or other flickered fpot, in rows 

 eighteen or twenty inches afunder, and fix 

 in row, about the firft of March. Sooner Is 

 attended with bad confequences : the feed 

 will feldom begin to vegetate before that 

 time, if planted ever fo foon, and if hard frofl 

 or much wet enfue, it will be much injured. 



For a principal crop, plant on a free and 

 open expofure, in rows from twenty to thir- 

 ty inches afunder, and from fix to twelv 

 in row, according to the kinds and quality 



of 



