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the flefhy part of the bulb is of no ufe in fupplying 

 nourilhnient to the young fruit after the fibrous <► 

 roots have put forth and laid hold of the ground. 

 Perhaps an experiment of this fort may be thought 

 worjh making. ^ 



I am/ Sir, your mofl obedient fervant, 



JOSEPH WIMPEY. 



Bratton^Clovelly near Okehamptoriy 

 Devon^ April 1792. 



Article XXIV. 

 On the heji Method of providing for the Poor. 



WITH PRELIMINARY AND SUBSEQUENT CONSIDERA-^ 

 TIONS, BY THE SECRETARY, 



THE materials which compofe th» former vo- 

 lumes of this Society, are for the moft part 

 a recital of experiments and practical opinions in 

 the great department of Agriculture, To advance 

 the knowledge of that fcience was a primary objefb 

 in the inftitution of the Society, and it is confefTedly 

 an obje6l, in every enlightened country, paramount 

 to every other confideration. The favourable re- 

 ception 



