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riantly j and, though bad weather in the 

 autumn made me pluck it up a little too 

 foon, yet I got about thirty good feeds 

 fFom it, which the fucceeding fpring pro- 

 duced as thriving male and female plants, 

 as if the mother- hemp had flood furround- 

 ed with males. And, 



3. In the fpring 1741, I carried two 

 young feedling plants of the French mer- 

 cury, long before there was any in flower, 

 from the city phy fie 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 700 yards 

 diftant from one another, wi h many 

 high houfes, trees, hedges, and part of a 

 hill between them : And planted one of 

 them in one inclofure, where it was Iha* 

 ded from the fun the greateft part of the 

 day ; and the other, in another, 25 yards 

 diftant, expofed to the fouth and weft. 

 Both plants ripened fertile feeds ; and 

 the laft ftied them fo plentifully, that 

 it proved a troublefome weed for feveral 

 years, thoHgh none of the fpecies was 



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