qualities, farinaceous and mealy; but were ſo affected with the curl ſome years ago, as to be totally given up till renewed again from ſeed(c). They are at preſent in great eſtimation.. Beſides the Manly, which ſucceeds the Early Dwarf, there is the Early Cbampion(but much coarſer) and Perrins, varieties of Kianeys, Golden Dun, and Golden Dan Kidneys, the Pink-Eye and Pink-Ee Kidney, and(not the leaſt valu- able) the Winter Ked, the beſt flavoured potatoe in the ſpring and after the other kinds grow ſtrong, and continues good till July(4). Ox-Nobles, Champion, Apple(e), and Cluſters, for the uſe of cattle. The greateſt quantity of potatoes may be raiſed from the ſame land by aig- ging with a ſpade; but where great tracts are planted, the ſpade is inſuffi- cient; labourers are not to be procured in ſufficient numbers. It may not be amiſs to deſcribe the proceſs of digging with the ſpade, and planting the potatoe upon lands thus prepared.

Early kinds are ufually dug for in gardens, or looſe earth land already in tillage. A trench is made one foot wide at leaſt, the dung laid in, then covered with ſoil about four inches thick; the potatoes are planted with a dibble after being cut into ſets. The butts are beſt about four feet broad; and a rib of earth fhould be left in every furrow(in Lancafhire called. Raine Quere Drain)(†) or the ſpace between each butt of about one foot at leaſt in breadth. This ſoil is to be thrown over the potatoe as ſoon as it begins to appear above ground, with a ſpade. This operation not only checks the weed then beginning to appear, but wonderfully refreſhes the potatoe-plant(). The drill-plough(hereafter to be deſcribed) if run through this rib of earth once or twice previous to the operation of throw- ing upon the butts with a ſpade, will tend greatly to pulverize and amelio- rate the ſoil. If the land be ſward and clean, the proceſs is the ſame;

only the ſward is taken off firſt and buried under the dung(b). This me- thod is practiſed by the cottager with ſucceſs upon his little plot; and may be uſeful in the corners of fields where the plough could not be uſed.

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ſc) Not that the ſame ſpecies will always be raiſed from ſeech ſimilar to the plant from whence gZathered; for one ounce of ſeed may produce one hundred varieties, and probably not two out of the whole worth cultivation; but a fimilar plant may a produced from the parent ſtock. Upon this fyſtem the difeaſe called the Curl, has been effectually prevented for ſome years in Lancaſhire. 1— (d, And yet avery indifſerent potatoe in flavour till its proper ſeaſon. 1 ſe) A potatoe ſo called, but not io productive as the Ox-Noble. Perrins are faid to be ſuperior to the Ox-Noble in produce. All theſe improve by cultivation, in flavour, grain, and mealineſs. ) The provincial pronunciation is Ree an. (&) Land is frequently ploughed drawn out into butts of this breadth, the dung ſpread over me ground and turned under by the plough, then planted by a dibble, a ridge of earth being left to throw over, as deſcribed in the text; and this method is found to anſwer well. (4) Where it will admit of it, the land is ſometimes previouſly kkimmed by the plough.