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only as an explanation, which may give 

 you a better idea of the manner in which 

 the coals are drawn, than a mere defcrip- 

 tion in words. 



a. Is the canal arched over. 



b. A little branch of it, or rather a 



trough, into which the water is let 

 at pleafure by drawing up the Hiding 

 door c. 



the table : this is not the cafe if the fets are pla- 

 ced in drills, at two feet diftant, with intervals 

 of the fame width. Mr. Howard cultivated thole 

 which he railed on zftiff rich foil ; but this, as 

 well as all other potatoes, flourifhes belt in light 

 land, and will certainly yield greater crops, if 

 earthed up from time to time, as the Italics grow. 



This potatoe grows longer in the ground, and 

 will bear the frojls vaftly better, than any of our 

 forts ; and as it will yield a vait increafe, even on 

 aftiff clay, (as was Mr. Howard's,) it feems pe- 

 culiarly adapted to the foil and climate of this 

 county. Mr. Howard gencroully lent two ham- 

 pers of thefe potatoes to the Society of Arts, £srV. 

 in London, the laft fpring •, and I procured two 

 large roots from their Regifter, and {hall now, 

 Sir, proceed to tell you, how I have fucceeded 

 in the cultivation of them. 



I divided the firft into two, the fecond into 

 thirty fets, and put them into the ground on the 

 6th of May laft ; the foil was a fine looie loam, 

 hut rather too damp. 



The two fets were placed at confiderable dis- 

 tances, and each of them occupied a circle, 

 whofe diameter might be near four feet. 



The 



