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Royal Garden at Kew, but are undoubtedly the true kind. 

 They are about as large as a full sized Golden Pippin, very 

 regularly shaped, with a full open eye, having a yellow coat 

 and a very brilliant patch of red on one side, with a pleasant 

 sweet flavour. They are very good dessert apples, and are 

 particularly esteemed in Germany. 



January 6th, 1818. Mr. Thomas Ashworth, Garde- 

 ner to the Marquis of Bath, sent from Longleat to the 

 Meeting, this day, some young Potatoes. The following is 

 the method practised by Mr. Ashworth, to obtain them. 

 In the beginning of April, a quantity of large Potatoes are 

 selected, and laid up in a dry airy room ; they are turned 

 over four or five times during the summer, and all shoots 

 which they make are taken off as they appear. These are 

 used for the seed, and are planted in succession from the 

 beginning of September to the end of December, in boxes, 

 in the following manner. In the bottom of each box, a 

 layer of light vegetable mould, four inches deep, is placed, 

 on which the Potatoes are laid, two inches apart, and these 

 are covered with another layer of the same mould, and of 

 the same depth. On the surface of the second layer, Pota- 

 toes are again laid, and then covered as before; this is 

 repeated until the box is full. The boxes may be kept in 

 any of the fire houses, or in a warm back shed, and in three 

 months from the time of planting, young Potatoes fit for 

 use will be formed. It is to be observed, that the young 

 Potatoes thus obtained, are much inferior in quality to those 

 produced by vegetating plants ; but as it is scarcely possi- 

 ble to bring forward Potatoes in beds so soon, this plan is 



