OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE POTATOE, 
AND A 
REMEDY FOR THE POTATOE PLAGUE. 
IN TWO PARTS. 
CONTAINING A 
HISTORY OF THE POTATOE, 
ITS CULTIVATION, AND USES, 
ALSO 
A TREATISE ON THE POTATOE MALADY, 
ITS ORIGIN AND APPEARANCES IN DIFFBRENT COUNTRIES, A VIEW OF 
VARIOUS THEORIES CONCERNING IT, WITH THE REMEDIES 
PROPOSED, 
AND AN INQUIRY 
INTO THE CAUSES PRODUCING THI DISEASE, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR 
STAYING ITS FURTHER PROGRESS. 
BY CHARLES P. BOSSON, 
Member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Editor of the N. I. Agriculturist, 
uthor of a Treatise on the Sugar Beet, etc., ctc. 
BOSTON: 
PUBLISHED BY E. L. PRATT. 
1846. 
