I 3

Sir Thomas Beevor compared the following ſorts: the four firſt, in a gar- den border where a row of apple-trees had grown, and taken up a month be- fore; the three laſt, in garden-ground that had been cropped in the common

manner.

Incomparable, a ſeedling

Dennes Hill, ditto Bayley's ditto Manley White Kentiſh Seedling Champion—

Ox Noble(u-

— — — — —

Wt. of Seed. lb. oz.

9

1 I 12² 10 6

11

IIIIi II

00 Vo d 0o o

Wt. of Prod. 1

02.

0 10

Mr. Whyn Baker, in Ireland, compared various ſorts as under:

And repeating the experiment the year following, the refult was,

Commonwiſe produced— 21 6

Apple

Red French— Munſter White Crones—

Spaniſh—

Sort. Barrelsper acre.

Black— 111

uakerwiſe 108 Red French 88 White ditto 85 Commonwiſe 103 Apple— 76 Engliſh White 83 White Munſter 79 Spaniſh 70 Crones 60 1⁰)

uantity of Land G planted. b. 6 tenths of a rod 13 8 ditto 16 5 ditto 8 3 ditto 6 4 ditto 16 5 ditto 11 4 ditto 14 lb. oz. — 20 2 — 15 12 — 16 0 — 16 6 — 15 10(

Buſhels Per acte. 692 668 539 670 1342 708 1140

The kinds of potatoe, ſays Mr. Haſſal of Narbeth, which I have found moſt uſeful for family conſumption, are the Apple and the White Kidney; cultivated with great fucceſs in the counties of Wexford and Wicklow ‚ in

(u) Bath Society, vol. 4. p. 304 (+) Experiments reported to the

B 2

Dublin Society 1771, p. 100.

(20) Ibid. 1772, p. 101.