200 POTATOES. 



I. The SPECIES of Potatoes, here as in 

 moft other places, are various ; not only in 

 Ihape, colour, and farinaceous quality, but 

 in the nature of their grov/th ; the different 

 forts requiring different times of planting : 

 a circuniilmce which is not, perhaps, fuf- 

 ficiently attended to, in other Diftridls. 



II. SUCCESSION. Potatoes fucceed, 

 invanablyl believe, Ley herbage;— broken, 

 fometimes at leaft, by tv^^o or three plow- 

 in gs J but no BURNING is ufed for this 

 crop. 



III. PLANTING. Time of plant- 

 ING' — March, AjdHI, May, or even June; 

 according to the varieties or forts which are 

 eultivaied : it being found that each has its 

 fa-f >rit€ feafon of planting : and it is pro- 

 bable that, were attention paid to the varie^" 

 ties of every other Diflridt, limilar propen- 

 iities might be difcovered. 



Th« METHOD OF PLANTING VaricS. 



Some'imes they are planted in alternate 

 furrows, and cavered with i>ung. Id^ 

 other inflances, they are planted in flips or 



beds ; 



