228 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
cimen from the feed, being accidentally de- 
ftroyed when very young ; and finding after-_ 
wards, about the end of ‘ume, a pretty ftrong 
but late plant of emp, growing in the inclo- 
fure to the eaft of Holyrood-houfe, commonly 
ealled the Bowling-green, by itfelf: I caufed 
great care to be taken of it; there not being 
that year any emp raifed within a mile of it, 
that I could find. This plant grew luxuri- 
antly ;. and, tho’ bad weather in the Autumn 
made me pluck it up a little too foon, yet I 
got about thirty good feeds from it, which 
the fucceeding Spring produced as thriving 
male and female plants, as if the mother 
hemp had ftood furrounded with males. And, 
3- In the Spring 1741, I carried two 
young feedling plants of the French mercury, 
long before there was any in flower, from 
the City Phyfic-garden, the only place where 
it was then to be found in this country, to 
the King’s Garden at the Abbey, which are 
more than 7oo yards diftant from one ano- 
ther, with many high houfes, trees, hedges, 
and part of a hill between them : and planted 
one of them in one inclofure, where it was 
faded from the fun the greatefl part of the 
‘day ; and the other, in another, 25 yards di- 
ftant, 
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