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170 M. Thouin; on.ihe Cultivation of the Batata.[Sept

"The latter has been tried in the Southern departments, and begins to be prevalent in the vicinity of Thoulouse.*

As this Species Of batata is a native of the hottest climates, and is therefore not found to vegetate at Paris without aruficlal asSiStance, it is presumed It will not Hourish in the cold, or even in the temperate parts of France., The Sort from Pensyl- vania,(cohvulvulus patatus angulozus) appears more adapted to France, being from,a country more rezembling it in'tempe- Tature, To ascertain this, the administrators of the Muüseum, have Sent into the departments of La Dröme, Hecault, Deux- Nethes, and Escaut, the larger part ot the roots of this plant Sent by M. Lormerie. The rest will be preserved to propogate in the gardens of the Maseum, and in Some of the central de- partments.

“In order to learn the result of these experiments under fa- vourable circumstances, it is intended to preserve the roots in veszels filled with a dry and fine Sand. To keep them from all wet, and in a cold temperature. They are not to be planted Until the Snow and Severe Weather is no longer to be appre- bended, nor until the earth approaches a State of termentation from tbe warmtü of tbe Solar ray. They are to be put into a friable and ricb Soil, where they can be watered wiih Conver jience; they areto be carefully preserved from the north w ind add exposed to a warm Sun.|

[u this State, and with all these precautions, they will throw out talks wbich will have Shoots very S00nD eighteen inches long. At 15 necessary ouly tv bend each staik in the middle like the bandie of a basket, and to plant it1n a lite d11]| made on purpose: the part thus inclined, Should be co- vered with five oi Six inches of earth:; and as each Stalk will continue 10 lengthen, thi5 operation may be repeated two or three Uwes in tbe course of the Summer, according to tbe vigour of the plauts.

From hese Shoots, a, great number of roots will protrude, which will propogate the SPECIES. The plants may be also muiüplied by Slips taken from the woody part of the plant, chvosng res earth for the purpose, and Selecung a time both moist and warm. It isin this way, that they multip]y the Sort in the Antilles duriwg tlie räiny SeaSon. In tije nortnern cli- mates, and in the centre ot France, it is absolutely negessary

* Some difference of opinion has arisen on the origin of this plant, which SOncarly vesembles the ordinary potatoe, both in Substanc«c and name. Sobrino Bäs„distiNSguished Atunder rhe vague description,“s Radicis»Americance genus 57" pot ng, out; at least, as 1ar;as his authority may be respected, that,it 18 a native of America, and we p1eSume it 15 ol St uth, or Spanishi America ot which he Speaks, to which his attention was mort peculiarly dis recled. M?