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I wifh I could by any frefh communication con* 

 vince them, that I was deferving of their commen- 

 dation ; but from the many and various avocations 

 I have lately had, I have been rendered lefs able 

 than I could wifh, to attend to any experiments 

 worth relating. 



I this fummer received from a friend who came 

 from Paris, fome feeds of the plant called in Ger- 

 many Mangel-Wurzel\ by M. de Commerell, Ra- 

 cine de Dijette \ and in Englifh, the Scar city -Root. 

 The account of the plant, and its time and method 

 of propagation, are fo fully given by M. l* Abbe 

 d.e Commerell above-mentioned, in the Memoire 

 publifhed by him, and which I fuppofe you have 

 feen, that I ftiall wholly omit the mention of them, 

 and only relate what little I have yet obferved of it. 



My feeds were fent me very late, two months 

 nearly after the mod proper time of fowing them; 

 however I ventured to commit them to the ground 

 on the 1 2th day of June laft ; and in a few days had 

 the fatisfaction to find them all rife well, and in a 

 vigorous ftate of growth. I have fince gathered 

 their leaves twice, and find their roots of fuch 

 fize as to promife a considerable and profitable pro- 

 duction. The meafure of fome of them is now 15 

 inches round j the length (of a few I pulled up on 



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