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tlemen, another year, fuch accounts of the 

 nature and effe&s of the Mangel JVurzel, as a 

 vegetable for the table, and a food for diffe- 

 rent kinds of cattle, as may determine the 

 value of this new and celebrated exotic* 



To Dr. Fothergill, and Mr. Hayes, 

 for their laudable attention to the cultivation 

 of Rhubarb-, and to the latter Gentleman for 

 his other communications, the Society, on 

 the public behalf, has been laid under new 

 obligations. 



The remarks on Fruit Threes, from Mr. 

 Grimwood, Mr. Samuel, Mr. Gilling- 

 water, and our fcientific correfpondent Mr. 

 Gullet, will be found interefting, not only 

 to the lovers of horticulture in particular, 

 but to our country readers in general. 



• It is with pleafure the Society embraces this opportunity of 

 paying a full tribute of refpecl to Dr. Lettsom, (though not an. 

 immediate correfpondent on the fubjec"t) for that fteady and laud- 

 able zeal which he has (hewn for the introduction of fo promising 

 a root into this country. By fuch generous exertions, whenever 

 well directed, an individual may fecure, even againft the force of 

 prejudice, the molt lalting advantages to his fellow -citizens, and 

 to pofterity. 



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