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sine it may be raised from seed ; but I have found it to be Method of 

 easily propagated by dividing the roots into smaller plants, 

 and disposing of them at distances of from fonr to six 

 inches. In moist ground it spreads rapidly, and soon forms 

 a thick mass of food exceeding any other kind I ever wit- 

 nessed. Its durability is such, that what I have in my gar* Very durablt. 

 den, which has been there to my knowledge these twenty 

 years, is as thriving, and yields as much as ever. 



I had need apologize for trespassing so long on your pa- 

 tience; and shall be happy if these remarks be in any degree 

 found beneficial. 



I am, with great respect, Sir, 



Your most obedient servaut, 



ROBERT HALLETT. 



[QCf It is presumed the destroying of insects, by sprinkling with to- Perhaps some 



bacco water, is not new, though not generally practised ; it may there- indigenous 



fore be a public service to recommend the method. But as tobacco is P I * nt . ma y De 



n . , . , substituted for 



comparatively a dear article, and the fluid above mentioned not easily tobacco. 



procured in many situations, it might be a public advantage of no small 



importance, if our ingenious correspondents would turn their attention 



to the different tribes of vegetables, with a view to finding among our 



most pungent and bitter plants, or by a cheap and easy mixture of them, 



a substitute for foreign tobacco, for such uses. The idea is not without 



promise. . 



And further experiments on the striped grass are undoubtedly worthy 



of being made, in small enclosures near the farmer'* or gentleman'/? 



house. — Editor.] 



X. 



A Second Letter from Mr. Robert Hallett, on the Effu> 

 cacy of Tobacco Water in destroying Insects infesting Fruit 

 Trees, 



SIR, Axminster, Jan. 14, 1304. 



.S you requested in your favour of the 28th ult., that I 

 would communicate to you any farther discoveries that might 

 have occurred to me in the use of the tobacco water for de^ 



stroyinjj 



