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ic is not fo tender, neither does it need tranfplant- 

 ing, or any other care than keeping the ground 

 clear of weeds. I have not found any difference in 

 thefizeofthe roots thus raifcd, from thofe which 

 are raifed from feed. I think my friend Sir Wm, 

 Fordyce (whofe views to enlarge fcience in gene- 

 ral are unceafing) has remarked the uncertainty of 

 the feeds of rhubarb coming up ; and has pointed 

 out, in the papers publifhed by the Society of Arts, 

 &c, in London, fome means to render them more 

 certain. Perhaps the above method may be thought 

 preferable : if it fhould not, pleafe to accept the will 

 for the deed; and believe me, that to be ufefi 

 the only defign of, Gentlemen, 



Your moll obedient humble fervant, 



THOMAS HAYES. 



Article VIII. 



Account of a Plant of the Rheum- Palmatinn, grown at 

 Boreatton in the County of Salop. 



[By a Gentleman of that County.] 



THIS plant, the fixth year after it was fowed, 

 grew between the months of April (when the 

 ftalk hVft appeared out of the ground) and the 



middle 



