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tised round the metropolis, many of which, to say the least of 

 them, are very unworkmanlike : planting with the dibber is a 

 detestable practice in a garden. The best early sorts that I am 

 acquainted with are, the ash-leaved kidney and the early manly : 

 but any of the early sorts, if true, will succeed for all ordinary 

 purposes. No vegetable is more easily forced, or forwarded, than 

 the potato, if allowed plenty of light and air, and kept from frost: 

 it will bear a strong heat, and thus suit itself to any forcing 

 structure, from the pine stove at 70°, to the matted bed in the 

 open border, that is only defended from the frost by coverings. 

 A slight hot-bed is generally preferred, of dung, leaves, or tan, 

 say 3 ft. or 4 ft. deep ; with a stratum 6 in. deep of any light 

 soil, in which the sets are inserted about 3 in. deep, in rows 

 15 in. by 5 in. Time may be gained by forwarding the sets in a 

 box of soil, placed in any of the forcing-houses, and planting 

 them out, under some protection, after they have pushed and 

 begun to root. There are various ways of getting young potatoes 

 (as in cellars, and in boxes of sand) from large coarse varieties ; 

 but, as the produce is both unwholesome and unpalatable, I 

 should rather caution against the using of them, than recommend 

 the practice. The earliest potatoes, in the open ground, may be 

 planted about the 1 5th of March j and the latest, before the 1 st 

 of June. 



Isleworfh, Jan. 11. 1837. 



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