96 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



Potatoes, when forced, meet with a ready 

 sale, at prices that well reward the attentive 

 gardener : they form one of the side-dish 

 luxuries of the wealthy ; and perhaps are 

 the most wholesome of all their dainties ! 

 The idea that forced potatoes are always of a 

 watery nature is erroneous ; they are of an 

 early and small variety, which have been ob- 

 tained from seed that is planted in hot-beds, 

 and these, when ripe, are as mealy as the po- 

 tatoes of natural growth. Mr. H. Kirkpatrick, 

 in 1796, published a work on the culture of 

 potatoes, wherein he recommends his seed- 

 ling potato e as a good kind for forcing, and 

 adds, " No gentleman who wishes for early 

 sorts, will think the price (5s per pound) too 

 high." This author states, that he has known 

 potatoes succeed for fourteen years succes- 

 sively on the same ground. 



The author of this Work was for many 

 years supplied with potatoes from Mitchel- 

 grove, near Arundel, which were not only 

 the largest of the kidney kind, but the most 

 floury and best flavoured he had met with. 

 Mr. Whyatt, the grower, informed him, that 

 they had attained this size and quality from 

 his mode of culture ; which was, by digging 

 trenches and filling them entirely with leaves, 



