450 Improved Method of raising Early Potatoes, #c. 

 tain but very little doubt, that such an union subsists under 

 ordinary circumstances, till almost the whole of the soluble 

 and organizable matter of the old tubers has been absorbed 

 by the new. To what extent this occurs is, however, a point 

 of little conseqence : the important fact of the crop being 

 increased by the employment of large sets has been proved 

 by accurate experiments, in many successive seasons. 



I am, dear Sir, 



Dcrnnton, 



sincerely yours, 

 Thomas Andrew Knight. 



