Note 55 — PART IV. NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO TIMBER. (continued 2)

Our experiments have not yet been carried so far, as to determine if, by any arrangement of drying or exposure, they may be seasoned to sustain intense frost, which may affect them differently from moderate frost, either by causing complete congelation of all their structure (moderate freezing appearing only to congeal their fluids, but not entirely the containing vessel, at least only partly congealing the mass), or by killing the vital principle itself through nervous affection. The potatoes became green from the exposure to the light, and we rather think acquired greater hardihood of constitution, or greater vitality or excitability by the exposure, thence greater power to resist the cold, independent of the disposition they acquired by desiccation to endure it.