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nor is there any wafte ; are fufficiently dri- 

 ed to refill corruption, and not too much 

 to prevent inftant vegetation #. 



The method of planting the moots is 

 juftly exploded. I have, for one, given it 

 fair and frequent trials, and I am convin- 

 ced it is of little utility. 



The curl is a difeafe, which has given 

 the cultivators of this plant much trouble, 

 nor has there, as yet, perhaps, been any 

 effectual remedy difcovered f . 



It has been fuppofed to be occafioned, ei- 

 ther, iy?, by an infect being lodged in the 



eye 



* By comparifon, and obfervations made laft feifon 

 in different parts of the country, I am convinced of the 

 utility of uiing f coops for taking out the eyes or fets, 

 in times of fcarcity ; as the remaining part of the root 

 may be ufed for cattle or pigs. The fcoop, however, 

 fhould be of the deepeft fort, that is, rather more than 

 a hemifpliere, whofe diameter is an inch ; for if fhal- 

 lower, the fet will be too weak. 



f 1 have juft learned, that a refpeclable gentleman in 

 the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, is convinced, by ac- 

 tual experiments made by himfelf, that the caufe of the 

 curl, lies' in the feed being over ripened \ and he advifes, 

 as a remedy for this difeafe, that potatoes, intended for 

 feed, ihould not be planted before the ijth of May ; and 

 they mould be tal^en up in a much greener ilate thaq 

 tliofe intended for culinary purpofes. 



