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thought however he would firft try the effe& of 
rolling it by night, which was a very common practice 
in the parifo at that time. The confequence was, a 
fpeedy improvement in the appearance, and the 
final refult a crop of 12 facks of beans per acre. 
Thomas Oliver, a labourer who ftill works for Mr. 
Powell, affures me that he threfhed three facks per 
day, and that he could eafily have done more, and 
remembers that one {talk had upwards of 150 pods 
on it. 
I am afraid you will find me a very troublefome 
correfpondent, but from the very handfome man- 
ner in which the fociety has adopted me, I fhall 
always efteem it my duty to forward their views 
even by the moft flender efforts. 
I remember to have feen in a former premium 
book, that the fociety either offered a premium, or 
requefted the affiftance of gentlemen, to afcertain 
the /yxonims of apples, or the different names by 
which they are known in different places, their re- 
fpective merits either as cyder or table fruits, and 
_ the time they will refpectively keep; the whole 
with a view to correct the fruiting of orchards. 
This is an object which I have long had in con- 
templation, and by means of a {mall nurfery in my 
poffeffion, I hope to contribute my fhare to this de- 
firable purpofe, I have had thoughts of defiring 
fome intelligent rider to take notice, in the different 
counties of the different apples, and the names by 
U 2 which 
