14 Change of Seed unnecessary, 



kind, planted at the same time, and with every equal 

 advantage, beyond my expectation, in size, shape, and 

 quantity; by continuing the practice, I am satisfied that 

 I have been fully compensated, for all the additional 

 trouble. 



A circumstance happened respecting potatoes, which 

 may be worth relating : a woman whom I met in mar- 

 ket, requested me to bring half a bushel of sweet pota- 

 toes for seed, the next market day, which I promised 

 to do, but going through the market on that day, pre- 

 vious to her son's coming for the potatoes, I observed 

 tlie woman selling such as I had brought for her ; ^vhen 

 tlie boy came, I asked him the reason they wanted po- 

 tatoes for seed, while they were selling their own ; his 

 answer was, that his father said, if they did not get 

 seed from me, once in three or four years, their potatoes 

 would be good for nothing. Query, if he had used the 

 same means in selecting his potatoes for planting, as I 

 did, whether he would have profited by changing with 

 one who used the other method? 



In discoursing with a friend who lived at a great dis- 

 tance from me, on the above subject, he mentioned a 

 fact in favour of changing seed. Some radish seed 

 which he had from me, produced radishes preferable 

 to any thing of the kind ever seen in that neighbour- 

 hood which was near 100 miles distant : but in two or 

 three years, the radishes degenerated so as to be no 

 better than what he had before ; I asked his method of 

 saving his seed; he said he had no other radishes in his 

 garden, and when they had pulled what was fit for use, 

 let the others go to seed. I then told him my method, 

 viz. — As soon as the radishes are fit for use, I dig up 



