Having procured your seed tubers, bury them in an ordinary hot-bed, about the 20th of April in Central New York. Place them lengthwise, and nearly end to end, in rows across the bed, the rows about six inches apart, covering them about three inches deep with soil. In two or three weeks, according to the heat of the bed, each tuber will throw up from five to thirty sprouts close to the side of the parent As soon as these are three or four inches high, take up the tuber carefully and break them off close to the parent, so as to save the side roots. The tubers may then be replaced for the production of a second and even a third crop of sprouts. Some prefer breaking them off in the ground, but I have always found it safe to take the tubers quite out of the ground for this purpose. This method of procuring plants is practiced even in the Southern States, since otherwise too many shoots would be produced. With us this mode becomes further indispensable as the only means of getting our plants sufficiently early.