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can never difFufe the knowledge it rewards, nor 

 render the fuccefsful efforts of individuals the 

 means of general improvement. For want of this 

 circumftance, the London Society (of which I 

 have been for fome years an attending member) 

 has failed in a remarkable degree, of feeing it's 

 noble and liberal premiums attended with any 

 confiderable effect. I am, however, happy enough 

 to add, that they have entered upon that effential 

 work at lafr, fo that the world may hereafter ex- 

 pect to partake in that mafs of valuable informa- 

 tion which they have hitherto been too little 

 folicitous to fpread. 



In your firft volume are two memoirs on the 

 cultivation of Carrots, an object which always 

 appeared to me to rank amongft the moll impor- 

 tant in Britifh Agriculture ; but which, for cer- 

 tain reafons, has made much lefs progrefs than it's 

 excellence would lead one to expect. The hiftory 

 of this branch of our hufbandry is difpatched in 

 a few words. 



It appears from Norderfs Surveyors Dialogue, 

 publifhed in 1600, that carrots were commonly 

 cultivated, at that time, about Orford in Suffolk, 

 and about Norwich in Norfolk; and it is very 

 remarkable, that the tract of fand between Or- 

 ford, 



