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you, as it certainly promifes to be of the firft im- 

 portance in the article of food for cattle. In the 

 mean while let me not omit to inform you, that I 

 faw a few weeks ago at Lord Orford's place at 

 Erifwell, near Barton-Mills in Suffolk, fome of the 

 plants, which were nearly twice as big as mine: — 

 and I have been told, that at Mr. Dash wood's, of 

 Cley, in Norfolk, there are fome which meafure two 

 feet in circumference ; but the two laft- mentioned 

 parcels were, I am informed, fown at lead fix weeks 

 fooner than mine were. 



I have had lent me this week an account of a 

 moft wonderful production of vetches: upon two 

 plants fown in the garden of John Berney Petre, 

 efq; of Weftwick, in Norfolk, there were found 

 (after feveral had been accidentally plucked off) no 

 lefs than 994 pods, containing on an average fix 

 feeds in each pod; in all 5964 feeds, 



Mr. Petre, who fent me the account, did not 

 know the name of the plants ; but from a branch 

 of it which he fent me, with the account, I have 

 great reafon to believe it to be the broad-leaved 

 many-flowered vetch of Crete; for it had upon it 

 fome deep purple flowers, and is a perennial plant, 

 as he affured me ; however, not having any bota- 

 nical 



