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this occafion) Is 13 inches, and the weight of them 

 on an average 4.1bs. The feed and plants are not, I 

 think, to be diftinguiftied, at their firft growth, 

 from fome beets ; but in order to afcertain the dif- 

 ference, (if fuch there was) I fowed on the fame 

 bed of mould, on the fame day and hour, fome 

 feeds of the real beets j and find that, under the fame 

 management, the roots of the icarcity plant are 

 four times as big, and the leaves of it much larger 

 than thofe of the real beets. I have offered a few 

 of the leaves of the fcarcity plant to the cows whilft 

 going in exceeding good pafture in my park, which 

 they readily ate -, I did the fame to fome horfes 

 which were (landing in a waggon in the haired 

 field, who as readily ate the broad tender part of 

 the leaves, but rejected the thick parts of the (talks. 

 I have alfo had dreffed the leaves of each of the 

 above-mentioned plants, and brought boiled to my 

 table j and think, as did fome other gentlemen who 

 ate of them, that there is a manifest difference in 

 their tafte; thofe of the fcarcity plant being fo like 

 fpinage, as hardly to be diftinguiflied from it ; whilft 

 thofe of the beet were both harder and drier. 



What further obfervations I (hall be able to 

 make upon the growth and application of this 

 plant, in the courfe of the winter, I will tranfmit to 



you, 



