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I have nothing to offer againft it; but he fays alfo, 

 " all the kinds of beans poflefs the fame property." 

 With all due fubmiffion to the Do6lor*s fuperior 

 judgment, I muft think in this he is certainly 

 miftaken. In 1787, I planted a field chiefly with 

 garden beans of moft of the forts known j they 

 were planted in rows about a yard afunder, in the 

 following order : Mazagan, White- bloflbm, Long- 

 podded, Sandwich, Toker, and laftly, Windfor. 

 The Mazagan and White-bloffom were threfhed 

 firft, when to my great furpife I found I had quite 

 a new fpecies, or rather feveral. The Mazagan, 

 inftead of their being of their natural colour, were 

 mottled black and white; the White-bloffom, in- 

 flead of their natural jetty (hining black, were 

 brown, black, and yellow, blended together, and 

 both much larger than ufual. The Long-podded 

 were alfo very much of the fame colour. Here 

 then is an undeniable proof that beans, of fome 

 forts at leaft, are as fubjed to feminal variations as 

 any clafs of plants whatfoever. I affert this with 

 great confidence, as the experiment was not made 

 on a fmall trifling fcale, for I had eight or ten facks 

 of thefe beans which I had agreed with a feedfman 

 for at 58. a bulhel. When they were threfhed, I 

 wrote him word what happened, and difpofed of 

 them among my hogs and horfes. 



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