small. Thanks to an incomparable seeding season, with every field
a model of what a seed bed should be, the surface of the farms has a polish rarely possible in England. The potatoes are in the ground, ridged with the regularity of the born cultivator, though the neatness is often broken by the more or less new habit—still on its trial—of sprinkling farm: yard manure over, the surface after the tubers are in the ground. The acreage under bulbs continues to 'grow ; 'and, the rapidity of the extension is the more surprising, in these times, when we consider the heaviness of the original outlay. Of course the nature of the bulb _ makes all the difference, but the planting of -an acre, -even with cheaper sorts, -is-not likely to cost much less than 2500 ; and if more expensive
sorts 'are 'desired it may cost £2,000. - * * * *
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