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PRODUCTION OF 



Sect. XVII. 



I. 2. 



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they appeared, would contribute to increafe the number or enlarg 



bee 



made 



on a 



the fize of the new roots; which experiment has 

 fmall fcale by one, who beheved it to fucceed in a degree decifive of 

 its utiUty. See Sea. XIX. 3. i. and Sea. VII., i. 3, where it is faid, 

 that pinching ofF the flower-ftems of bulbous-rooted flowers, when 

 they firft appear on young bulbs only a few years from the feed, is 

 believed to render the flower duplicate. 



As the roots of potatoes are formed beneath the earth, the foil, 



which they are planted, fliould be laid hollow and full of 



or 



fhould poflefs lefs cohefion than ufi 

 their wires, and the enlaro;ement of 



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facilitate the protrufion of 

 )ots. This fhould be done 

 by burying fome long Utter of flraw and flable dung under the foil ; 

 for as potatoes are believed to require more carbonaceous earth than 

 carrots, a mixture of fand is lefs advantageous to them. 



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I was this day {hewn by my friend Major Trowel of Derby a new 



1 of 



ety of the potato in his excellent new-made garden, the fo 



h confifls of marl mixed with lime and ftable-manure 



Fro 



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m 



long;, at 



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ppeared to iffue fix or eight ftems three or four feet 

 )int of which were produced new potatoes ; at the 



ry joint ( 



there were three of thefe aerial potat 



the fize of a pullet's egg, and a fm 



h fide of 



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pper joints only 



potat 



adhered, and thefe 



cam 



fm 



finally 



the further they 



remov 



d fro 



fummit th 



ad been a fl 



th 



At 

 be- 



the root ; and 

 :re was now a 



feed-veffel, called a potato-apple. All thefe new potatoes at the jc 

 of the ftems were green, becaufe they had not been etiolated by 



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fecluded from the light, but the terreftrial roots were wh 



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larger new tuberous roots had eyes on them like a common potato, 

 but the fmaller ones had begun to fiioot out a new ftem or leaves 



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from their upper pa 



This variety, which may be termed 



potato, 



lium, which b 



is analogous to the m 



a 



or roots 



inion, and other fpecies of a 

 their fummits indead of feed 



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