opium in Great Britain. 
the plants ; two feet four inches between each double row of 
poppies occupied by the asparagus. 
The first produced only one capsule, the second two, and the 
third three capsules. 
Having ascertained that the white poppy, when cultivated 
upon the wide drill plan that I have adopted, not only gives 
out more capsules, but much larger ones than when cultivated 
in the broad-cast way, or close rows ; it is evident there must 
be a great saving of labour, for it will take as much time to ga- 
ther the juice from a small head, as it would do to collect three 
times the quantity of juice from a large head. 
The plants between the asparagus rows having more room 
to grow, had not only more capsules, but they were much lar- 
ger than those sown broad-cast, or in beds in close rows ; and 
as early potatoes, cultivated in a piece of ground adjoining my 
crop, were sold for a high price before my plants began to flow- 
er, I proposed the following year to have, by this mode of cul- 
ture, the same quantity of opium with a crop of early potatoes, 
as I obtained from an equal measurement of ground where 
there was nothing but poppies. 
Accordingly, in 1818 I selected a piece of ground in the 
highest state of cultivation, well manured with horse-dung, in 
which I planted early potatoes, in rows four feet wide. Fur- 
rows were first drawn ; in these furrows the dung was laid ; 
then the sets were dropped on the dung, about nine inches 
asunder, and covered by the hoe. The potatoes were planted 
the first week of February; and the poppies were sown about 
the middle of April, on the middle space between the potato 
rows, two rows of poppies on each space, and twelve inches be- 
tween the rows. When the poppy plants were about two 
inches above the ground, they were at first thinned out by the 
hoe, and afterwards by the fingers, to the distance of eight 
inches between the plants. 
In this manner I raised a crop of early potatoes equal to 
36 bolls per acre. Although the potatoes wiU be ready for 
immediate use before the gathering of opium commences, 
the whole crop will not be entirely ripe for lifting till after the 
opium is collected. The early potato gives^ out but a small 
stem, but where the soil is rich some of them may spread in the 
