THE 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 
August 1st, 1833. 
PART I. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ARTICLE I.—A NEW WAY TO GROW EARLY POTATOES. 
BY MANCUNIENSIS. 
On walking out. the other afternoon, in company with some friends, 
we were caught in a thunderstorm, and obliged to take shelter in a 
farm-house, the owner of which was known to one of the party.— 
During the storm, the conversation turned upon gardening, and our 
host gave us a plan for raising new potatoes, which I send you. It 
may appear strange, but, as he says, he has tried it, and found it to 
answer very well. At all events, I think it worthy of consideration 
and a trial. I will give his own words, so far as my recollection 
serves. 
“I was getting up my potatoes one year, in that field below the 
house, when the thought struck me, that by planting the smallest of 
them again, immediately, they would grow, and I should have new 
potatoes very early. I resolved to try the scheme. I had no hot¬ 
house or greenhouse, and was therefore obliged to hit on a plan for 
keeping off the frost, which I did as follows. I chose a part of the 
field in which I was working, and made trenches along the top and 
the sides to keep it. dry, I then covered it a few inches deep with lit¬ 
ter, put on a few inches of soil, and planted the potatoes, covering 
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