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the plants will be fit to be planted out as foon as the frofts are gone, by which« means the fize of the roots will be much increafed the firft year, and will, in the fecond year, rife nearly to perfection*.” It is alfo added, that, in fele€ting proper plants from feedling potatoes, two circumftances are neceffary to be at- tended to; which are, the quality of the potatoe, and its produttivenefs. In cafes where thefe different properties are combined in the fame plant, there can be no difficulty in deciding in its favour.

The varieties of this root, that are at prefent in cultivation in different parts of the kingdom, are extremely numerous. In Lancafhire, where the potatoe hufbandry is well underftood and largely practifed; there are, according to the account of Mr. Kirkpatrick, upwards of twenty forts of the more early kinds, and more than half as many of thofe of the late f.

The old winter red is an excellent variety for the table in the fpring, when moft other forts have loft their favour, and are become unfit for ufe by fprout- ing. It is faid likewife to have the property of not being liable to the curl.

The blacks are likewife a late fort, which keep well till about Auguft;

* Donaldfon’s Modern Agriculture, vol. II. + Thefe different varieties are thus denominated in his tract on the culture of the potatoe.

Early kinds.

Smooth yellows, Mather’s feedlings, Red champions, Kerkham marbles, White ditto, Donbobin’s feedlings, Lady queens, Poor man’s profit, Drunken landlord, Golden gulleons, Birchal’s golden yellows, Invincible, Smith’s feedlings, Broughton’s dwarfs, Foxe’s ditto, Hatley’s nonefuch, Bofkow’s kidneys, Early perrins, Englifh champions, Forcing dwarfs, Brition’s dwarfs, Early Manleys. Bates’s ditto,

Late kinds. American white rangers, Ox noble, Ditto red ditto, Lords, Derbythire reds, Seedling varieties, Late champions, Balmer’s feedlings, Ditto kidneys, Budworth’s difters, Pink eyes, Irifh apples, Pink-nofed kidneys, Winter kidneys.

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