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drills, as thick in the drills as I would have fown 

 peafe. They came up very thin and irregular; in 

 fome places there was more than a foot vacancy be- 

 tween plant and plant. This I was much furprifed 

 at, as the feed had been carefully preferved during 

 the winter, and I could not, from their appearance 

 at the time of fowing, fufped them to be in the 

 lead defcdiive. The plants grew very fparingly 

 till towards the autumn, but before winter they 

 made a tolerable appearance. 



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This plat is in the mod expofed part of my 

 gaiden; the foil a blackifli loam, rather iHff; it 

 had been planted with potatoes the year before, for 

 which I believe it was dunged, but am not cer- 

 tain; the two preceding years it was ufed as a 

 nurfery for Lombardy poplars. 



Early in July 1783, I collected fome more of 

 thefe feeds from the hedges, tied them up in a 

 paper, and put them in a drawer of my bureau. 

 Upon opening the paper in September, I obferved 

 a vaft number of dead flies in it, and as many of the 

 feeds with a fmall hole in each. The number of 

 thv. flies was 280. The whole number of the feeds 

 1080. Thefe flies, upon examination, proved to be 

 a fmall fpecies of ichneumon. This puzzelled me 

 not a little, as I had learnt that thefe infeds were 



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