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I alfo planted one other plant (the fixty-feventh) 

 by itfclf in ihc garden, by way of trial how it would 

 ftand the winter; 1 left it entirely uncovered and 

 unprotcded from all the fcvere weather we have 

 lately experienced, and 1 do not find that, in (pite 

 of the fevered trial it can well be fuppofed ever to 

 have in this country, it is the Itaft hurt, the nrlain 

 Ihoot and crown of the plant look vigorous and 

 healthy: many of the leaves, indeed, are dropped 

 down, but not much more than fpinach or other 

 common greens are. What this plant weighs I 

 cannot tell, it having never beeo taken up, but in 

 appearance it feems to be almofl: as big as the 

 laigclt of the plants that grew in the bed. 



Article XXX. 

 On Bees. 

 [In a Letter to the Society.] 



GENTLfMEN, 



OOME time fince, feeing your advertifement of 

 ^^ propofed premiums fur encouraging the im- 

 provement of bees, a few hints from an old cxpe- 

 riirrenter on thcfc ufeful infcds may, perhaps, con* 

 tribute to tlie furtherance of your laudable dcfign. 



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