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Article XXI. 



On the Cultivation of Burnet. 

 [From a Correfpondent in Kent, to the Secretary.] 



Sir, Jan. 15, 1783. 



YOUR letter of December 20, reached me in 

 due courfe, wherein you inform me that 

 Burnet is a grafs but little cultivated in Somer- 

 fetfhire, and requeft my thoughts on its ufefulnefs. 

 I fhall at all times be happy in communicating 

 any thing that may tend to promote the views of 

 a Society eftablifhcd on fo liberal a plan as that of 

 Bath; and therefore it is with pleafure that I com- 

 ply with your wilhes, fo far as the knowledge of 

 the fubjedt will admit. 



Burnet is not generally cultivated in this county; 

 but fome of our moil intelligent farmers have 

 railed it of late years with confiderable fuccefs. 



I apprehend that one principal caufe of its not 

 having been more attended to, is the goodnefs 

 of our foil, which will produce other crops that 

 in general pay better than Burnet. But this is a 

 rcaibn which ought not to operate in countries 



which 



