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cxpence to their owners, and which deferves to 

 be more generally known. 



I am, Sir, your mod humble fervant, 



T.B. 



Article XXVI. 



On the amazing Increafe Grain is capable of, 

 from dividing and Iran/planting its Roots. 



Sir, 



I TAKE the liberty of writing to you as Secre- 

 tary to the Bath Society for the encouragement 

 of Agriculture. Having this day with great plea- 

 fure perufed the publication of their nrft volume 

 of letters and papers, I am impelled to throw in 

 my mite, by communicating an idea, with which 

 I am moft forcibly imprefled. 



If you will take the trouble to refer to the 

 Annual Regifter for 1769, you will find, under 

 the head of ufeful projects, a paper extracted from 

 the Philofophical Tranfacrions, giving an account 

 of an experiment made by Mr. Charles Miller 

 of Cambridge, on the increafe of a fingle grain of 

 Wheat in one feafon. It was communicated by- 

 Dr. Watson, of Lincoln's?inn-nelds, 



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