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broken, or bruised, or twisted, so as to hang loose, 

 they may as well be taken off at once, for the crown 

 derives no benefit from any that hang loose. These 

 removed, it is often found that the strong ones which 

 are left are too long to pot conveniently ; but they 

 may be shortened without absolute injury, though, as 

 the shortening cannot be of any service beyond the 

 convenience of potting, it should not be done wan- 

 tonly. In April, let the roots be put in a warm place. 

 Say, for instance, that the cultivator has no frame, or 

 hotbed, or greenhouse, they may be put in a basket 

 or box, in a warm cupboard in the kitchen. If he 

 have a greenhouse, they may be put in the warmest 

 part of that ; or, if he have a garden-frame and glass, 

 let it be converted to a hotbed with a few barrows of 

 hot stable-dung, and two or three inches of soil on it, 

 and the roots be all thrown in there, and be covered 

 up with the glass. If the kitchen or greenhouse be 

 all the convenience possessed, the roots must be 

 brought there early in March. If, on the contrary, 

 there be a hotbed, or the grower has a hothouse, the 

 end of the month will do. The eyes will soon be de- 

 veloped, and begin to shoot : when these are com- 

 pletely shewn, the root may be cut into pieces, care 

 being taken that there is a lobe or portion of the 

 tuber to each eye or shoot. In this, the root is sup- 

 posed to have an eye to each lobe, but it will not al- 

 ways prove so. "With a strong and sharp knife, they 



