In Galloway, I 1cwt. of ſeed to an acre in the lazy-bed method.(!). In Tweedale, two bolls per acre.(m).

Other Authorities. X“ Mr. Macro found, that whole potatoes(not large) yielded more than cuttings.(n) 3. Mr. May, of Suffolk, fifteen buſhels an acre, in rows at two feet.(- Mr. Dann, of Kent, thir y buſhels an acre, rows twenty inches, ſets ten, two eyes to each.(p ö“ Dr. Wilkinſon, of Enfield, twenty buſhels an acre, eight inches by fix.() Mr. Billingſley chooſes the largeſt and fineſt potatoes for ſeed, flicing them in two pieces, from the crown to the root(⸗). Plants eight ſacks of 240 lb. an acre.. Mr. Woolward, of Suffolk, ſixteen buſhels an acre.(s) Mr. Wagſtaff found that the parings of potatoes, taking one third of the root, yielded as good a crop as when the whole root was cut for ſets(4) In Eaſt Lothian, Potatoes cultivated from the ſeed, two ſorts, and no varieties whatever came; theſe from ſeed were exactly like the mother- plants.(u).. Mr. Higſon compared whole potatoes and cuttings; produced a greater crop than th ground.(v) Dr. Anderſon, by ſeveral experiments, found that the cro meaſure, proportioned to the weight of the ſets to plant ſmall potatoes, or ſmall cuttings(x-). D of potatoes, but got no new varieties); but, found that ſuch were to be gained.(2 Mr. Whimpey, repeating Dr. Anderſon's experiments, on large and ſmall, cut and uncut potatoes for ſets, found that the difference between whole potatoes and cuttings in acreable produce, was quite immaterial; but that, in ſaving of ſeed, it was greatly in favour of cuttings, to the amount of

rl. 19s. 8. an acre, as the uncut potatoes demanded thirty-ſeven bufhels

and a half per acre: the experiment repeated the year following; the refult the ſame(a). The cut, only twenty and a half.()

the former always e latter, in proportion to the quantity of

p was, in ſome (²); and never profitabie r. Anderſon ſowed the ſced in a ſucceſſive experiment, he

(1) Galloway, p. 6.„(o) Tweedale, p. 29.(¹) Annals, vol. 7. p. 505. (*) Vol. 18. p. 314.() Vol. 20. p. 231.(2) Vol. 20. p. 458.() Vol. 21. p. 5⸗ () Vol. 23. p. 31.(7) Soc. Tranſ. vol.„. p. 98.(u) Wight, vol. 2. P. 152. () Bath Society, vol. 1. p. 28.(2⁰) Ib. vol. 4. p. 14.(x) Ib. p. 20.

(y) Ib. vol. 4. p. 92.() Ib. vol. 5. p. 127.(a) Ib. vol. 6. p. 207.

(⁵) Bath Society, vol. 5.P. 234.

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