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them again with soil. In order to keep the earth from falling down 
and smothering them, when they began to shoot, I stuck sticks and 
brushwood over the last layer of soil, and put on a quantity of litter, 
covering the whole with soil. One of my neighbours who saw me, 
was surprised, and said he was sure I should have nothing in the 
end, hut I told him to come again on new year’s day, and we would 
see. We did so, and we opened the bed and found new potatoes 
about the size of a marble; I then told him I would leave it until 
the 6th of March.* I did so, and on opening it again, the new 
potatoes were as large as an egg, exceedingly well tasted, and quite 
mealy. I showed some to the gardeners in the neighbourhood, who 
would scarcely believe me, when I told them how I had grown 
them.” 
The situation in which they were grown, and which I myself saw, 
was on the north side of a hill, in the northern part of Lancashire, 
not the warmest situation in the world, as you may imagine. 
The idea of growing potatoes in the manner above stated is good, 
but my informant’s mode is, I think, capable of improvement. If, 
instead of the side of a field, an old hotbed were used, and hoops pla¬ 
ced so as to prevent the soil from falling down and pressing on the 
young shoots, wdiich would not grow very high, as potatoes when 
deprived of light do not grow so much above-ground as they do 
naturally, I think early potatoes might be raised without any 
expense. I intend to try it, at all events, and hope some of your 
readers will do so likewise. 
Mancuniensis. 
June 3 rd, 1833. 
ARTICLE II. 
ON MR. SEYMOUR’S SYSTEM OF TRAINING PEACH AND 
NECTARINE TREES. 
IN ANSWER TO MR. THOS. CAMERON, BY MR. HENRY DYSON. 
Inadequate as 1 feel myself to do justice to the undoubted superio¬ 
rity of Mr. Seymour’s system of training wall-trees, I willingly obey 
the call of Mr. Cameron; and, with the strongest convictions of the 
truth of my statements, I boldly and fearlessly assert, that it is the 
ne plus ultra of perfection, that its fabric is based upon a rock, and 
never can be shaken. Having thus far indulged the expression of 
* The (*th of March is, I think, a great Fair in the neighbourhood. 
