potatoes are entered in this work for the first time as a vegetable in the field cultivation, being about 150 years after the use of the plant was known as an esculent root. mills quotes the authority of miller in proof of its value and extensive utility. this author conveys his meaning and intelligence in the true style of writing—cool and plausible, and with becoming diffidence on all scientific disquisitions. no dogmatism mars the placid tenor of his story.