1 41 Ireland. Theſe ſorts produce great returns, are firm and mealy, pleaſant to the palate, and do not acquire that diſagreeable taſte at the approach of fummer, to which many other ſorts are liable. 7*

Mr. Townly, of Belfield, names the Early Red and White, Dwarfs. The flat White Kidney, by fome called the True Spaniſh, for ſummer uſe; alſo, for winter uſe, the White and Red Ruſſet, the Golden Tag, the Iriſh Dun, and the Smooth Winter White. For black earth the Iriſt Blue, and the Old Engliſh Red, which are hardy, with ſtrong coats. The White Lancafhire grows very large, and yields plentifully.

The Royal, or Cumberland Early, is of a large ſize, very prolific, of an excellent flavour, and ripens early enough to admit of the ground being employed either in raiſing another crop of the ſame potatoes, or a crop of white peaſe, turnips, cabbages, or green kail. Theſe circumſtances render it a valuable acquiſition; and there is little doubt, that in a ſhort time it will go a great way to ſupplant every other kind. What gives this potatoe a decided preference is, that it is ready at a time when the price of grain

and other neceſſaries of life are at the Higheſt; thart is, between the old and the new crop.(

Mr. Parkinſon, of Doncaſter, compared ſeveral ſorts. The Black produced, per acre, 1000 pecks.

The White 800 Kidneys 500 Champion 1000 Ox Noble 1 200 a.]

The Black potatoe affords more ſtarch than the White, and is of a greater ſpecific gravity.(5,

OBSERVATION.

Such are the avthorities concerning the ſort of potatoe which have occurred, whether in the county reports, or in various other communications tranſmit:ed to the Board, or in theſe authors who appear to have treated the ſubject the more immediately, either from actual experiment, or the obſerva- tions of practical men. Great difculties will neceſſarily attend the enquiry from the uncertainty of what the ſorts are which paſs with different perſons under the ſame denomination; but there does not appear in the preſent ſtate of our knowledge of this, root, any means of removing this obſcurity. In future, however, it will be highly deſerving the at- tention of practical men to deſcribe particularly the forts of their pota-

(x) MS. Papers of the Board.() Georgical Eſſays, vol. 4. p. 44. (z) MsS. by Mr. Wm. Somerville.(a) Ms. Papers of the Board. 76) Mr. A. H. Hemphill, Ms. Papers of the Board.