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Potatoes reviewed from Seed. ' Take the apples in the 

 beginning of October [or whenever they are ripe] before the 

 frost has hurt them ; hang them up by the foot stalks in a 

 dry closet, where they will ncrt freeze ; let them hang till 

 March or April ; then mash the apples, wash the seeds from 

 the pulp, and dry them in a sunny window. Sow the seeds 

 in a bed, about the first of May. When the plants are f.jur 

 or five inches high, transplant them into ground well pre- 

 pared, ore or two plants in a hill. They will produce full 

 grown apples, and some of the roots will be as large as hen's 

 eggs. But if the seeds were sown in autumn, some of them 

 would come up in the following spring. Nothing is more 

 common than their appearance in fields where potatoes have 

 been raised the preceding year.' 



The process stated in ' Monk's Agricultural Dictionary,'' 

 an English work, is similar to that mentioned by Dr. Deane, 

 excepting that it is recommended in that work to hang the 

 apples of the potatoes in a warm room till Christmas. Then 

 wash Ot.t the seeds, spread and dry them in paper, and pre- 

 serve them from damps till spring.' 



Potatoes thus obtained will produce roots of the full size 

 the second season after sowing, when their qualities may be 

 more fully ascertained than they could well be the first sea- 

 son. They will be found to vary very much from the kinds, 

 from which the apples were gathered. It will be expedient 

 to plant but one potato of the regenerated sorts in a hill, 

 that you may keep each variety separate. Then, by keep- 

 ing the produce of each hill by itself, and boiling one or two 

 of each, you may ascertain which is be^t for the table : and 

 by observing the quantity of produce in each hill, you may 

 form a pretty good estimate relative to the productiveness of 

 each sort. In that way you may introduce new varieties of 

 potatoes, and supply yourself and neighbors, and eventually 

 the market, with potatoes of a quality much superior to any 

 of the worn out and degenerate kinds which are now to be 

 found. The subject is of importance, and the man who will 

 introduce new and improved sorts of potatoes, will deserre 

 hut little less of his country than he who improves our 

 breeds of domestic animals. 



COTTON. (Gossypium.) There are many varieties of 

 this plant, all of which are natives of warm climates, but 

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