Note Q — Sacred Philosophy.

On the Culture and Uses of Potatoes, by sir John Sinclair, bart. This is a subject becoming every year of greater moment, and attention to it a national benefit. The reduction of bulk alone, facilitating the transport from one place to another, is an essential gain. The produce, from a certain number of acres of this valuable esculent, may be greatly augmented by planting the potatoes whole, at a great distance between each, and hoeing freely between them—See Knight’s Papers in Horticultural Transactions, and Payen et Chevalier, Traité de la Pomme de Terre. Paris, 1826, p. 17.