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lifli plants, they would greatly facilitate an attempt 

 of the fame kind in this kingdom. 



Three-fourths of the plants growing with us arc 

 the fame as thofc in Sweden on which experiments 

 have been made. One fourth only remains to 

 make new experiments upon. The undertaking 

 would, dierefore, not be fo great or difficult to ac- 

 complifh, as at the firfl: view it may appear to be. 

 The country round Bath, confiiling of great variety 

 of ibil and furface, is particularly favourable for 

 fuch a work. Fenny ground and the fea coaft are 

 * not too remote to be vifited on the occafion. 



The advantages arifing from this courfe of ex- 

 periments being rendered complete, would be im- 

 portant and lading. Poifonous and noxious plants 

 might be eradicated. The farmer would know 

 with certainty what to cultivate and what to rejefV. 

 Fen lands might be rendered valuable by the intro- 

 duction of plants fuited to the foil. By improving 

 the produce of pafture land, our hay would be finer 

 and better; and in proportion as the food of cattle 

 is purely what inftindl points out to them, their 

 flefh muft be finer, and better adapted to human 

 food, than when fupplied with a mixture c^' juices of 

 an unfriendly or noxious quality, 



I am, &c. X. y. Z. 



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