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Article XII. 

 On tbe/accbarine^ality of Pears ^ Maple-Sugary 6fr. 

 Gentlimen, 



MY lad letter to you, contains an account of 

 certain experimented fadlsj by which the 

 boundaries (the hedge-rows) of the field might be 

 made ufeful to the fupplying a large portion of 

 edible fruit, without any injury to the fence, or 

 diminution of its arable produd. 



But what I have now with fubmiflion to propofe, 

 concerning one fpecies of fruit, viz. pears, is hitherto, 

 I conceive, unexperimented^ but which, under the 

 encouragement of your fociety, may become not 

 merely a fuccedaneum for fugar^ as in feveral in- 

 ftances, which I fhall take the liberty of reciting, it 

 has effedually fupplied, but under fomewhat of a 

 chemical procefs their faccharine extrad may pofli- 

 bly be granulated into its abfolute fubftance. 



The fluid extradted from a fpecies of maple, per- 

 haps two* of the maples of America, may be ad- 

 duced in certain evidence, that fugar is not the pro- 

 duce of the cane only, as it is generated from tb^ 



♦ Tlic accr faccharmum, and accr rcgundo, 



maple 



