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a rftoderate good fizc,-and may be taken up 

 in larger fuppllcs, though not yet for keeping 

 any long time ; permitting the main crops to 

 continue in growth till the end of Odlober, 

 when the roots will be fully grown, and 

 fhould be wholly digged up to houfe for Win- 

 ter and Spring. 



In the latter end of Oflober, or beginning 

 of November, the potatoes being of full 

 growth, and the ftalks decaying, they Ihould 

 be all taken up before frcll fets in. Gene- 

 rally, for this bufmefs, have a proper potatoe- 

 fork of three or four flat fhortilh tines, and 

 iixed on a fpade-handle : cut down the ilalks, 

 and with the fork dig the roots clean up, 

 large and fmall ; but in confiderahle field 

 crops, they are fometimes turned up with the 

 plough. 



According as they are taken up, houfe them 

 in fome dry clofe apartment, and if mixed 

 with dry fand, they will keep the b^^tter. 

 They may be laid clofe, or heaped up thick 

 together, and covered thick with clean flraw, 

 to exclude the air and damps. 



Early potatoes are obtained occafiorally by 

 planting dwarf kinds in a hot-bed in January 

 and February. 



Potatoes are fometimes raifed from feed, to 

 obtain new varieties, or renew the degene- 

 rated forts. They produce feed in Autumn, 

 in fmall round fruit produced on the ftalks, 

 ripening in October, when being gathered, 

 preferve the feed till Spring: then fow it 

 thinly, in fmall drills a foot afunder ; and 



when 



