The Tragical Kitchen Gmdmr. 



it happens that a great many of the po- 

 " tato's, that are dug up in the autumn, 

 " are fmall and good for nothing'*. To 

 feniedy this (fays he) we chufe a middling 

 root (becaufc the largefl: they generally 

 eat) and obferving all thofe eyes that ap- 

 pear to be ftrong and vigorous, we fquare 

 out that eye or eyes, leaving a good thick 

 piece of half an inch to the eye, fo that 

 perhaps one Root will furnifa us with 

 three or four good plants to fet. 



Having done this, the ground is pre* 

 par'd ins the following rnanner 5 let your 

 beds be fouir or five foot wide, and the al- 

 leys between two or three more ; when 

 you have marled, out your beds, you are to 

 begin digging or trenching them only a 

 fmgle fpit deep,keeping your trench open, 

 at leaft two or three foot, as you do in 

 common, garden-trenching 5 and having 

 a wheel- barrow of dung, long and fhort 

 mix'd together, always ftanding by you, fill 

 the bottom of your trench therewith, up- 

 on which dung you ate to place your 

 potato-eyes, as they were before prepared, 

 at about five or fix inches afunder, and 

 when they cotne to grow , there will be 

 produc'd not above qne or two toots at 

 moft , but thofe large and well fed. 



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