37S A SUTTLEMENT $0 



worth that is not well laboured with 

 thefe kind of impregnations and improve- 

 ments. 



I might add more; as the railing of af- 

 paragus, artichoaks, fcorzonera, falfify, 

 and other curious roots, after the French 

 and Spanifl) methods 5 but as the methods 

 of our own country are very excellent, 

 I need not enlarge any farther. 

 fhe me- The ncxt obfervation I would make, 

 thod of q£ what has been omitted in the forcgo- 

 7at7f fn ing treatifc, contained in the fourth fccli- 

 jreland. on, is the method of raifing Potato's in 

 Ireland, as I received it lately from a 

 Gentleman of good intelligence, that is 

 a husbandman, that lately came from 

 thence, and which he tells me is the me- 

 thod us'd there at this time by thofc that 

 are the beft husbands. 



He obferves upon the whole, that the 

 " method we ufe in England of planting 

 the root whole is wrong j for that there 

 " are five or fix eyes, and perhaps more, 

 " from which the produce of the next year 

 " is to fpring, that the fpace of ground al- 

 lotted for that bulb, or rather the great 

 number of fhoots and bulbs that fpring 

 " from it, is not fufficient for the nou- 

 rifhment of them, and that therefore 



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