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tcatife on this article. The great accuracy and 

 precifion with which his experiments are condu6led, 

 arc very fingular and curious, and his fubfcquent 

 obfervations and conclufions not Icfs inftrudlive and 

 ufeful than they are ingenious and entertaining. 

 His difcovery, that the acrcable produce is in a 

 great meafure in proportion to the quantity (weight) 

 of fets or bulbs planted, (contrary to what obtains 

 in many other articles) is, perhaps, one of the tnoft 

 important difcoveries of the prefent age. And I 

 mufl add, I have the fatisfadion of feeing it in a 

 good meafure confirmed by my own practice in the 

 foregoing account. 



By that account it appears that I planted fifteen 

 facks of fets in two (latute acres of land j about a 

 third more tlian I ever allowed before, and I believe 

 than is commonly ufed. The increafe of produce 

 was not only in proportion to the increafed quan- 

 tity of feed by meafure, but alfo in the fize and fair 

 appearance of the bulbs, which indeed were fo 

 much improved, that I could not help hefitating for 

 a good while, if fome miftake had not been com- 

 mitted in the forts planted, which I could by no 

 means account for. 



Two of the forts I planted were produced by a 

 friend in London two years before, and were faid 



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