dS^ THE BEE, OR March 2, 



ExtraB of another letter on the fuhjeSi of the root of 

 fear city, 



T do not wonder, that thofe who have met with a 

 bad fort of feed which has produced plants with the 

 crowns clofe to the ground, and roots with many fangs 

 Ihould condemn it. But a fample which is now grow- 

 ing in the old kitchen garden of H , many of 



"which rife a foot or more above the ground, have de- 

 termined Mr. C to try it in his farm next year. 



The firft root he attempted to pull up, he expefted to 

 require great ftrengih ; but it came up fo eafily, that he 

 tumbled backwards, and carrying it to his farm yard 

 made his arms ache, fo as to convince hinn there was 

 fome fubflance in it ; he weighed two roots, one of 24, 

 the other of 22 pounds. 



What originally induced me to try it was, that I 

 found^many people condemn it without trial, and that 

 I could not meet with any body who had tried it. I 

 reported my firft trial of it to Dr. Lettfom, who infert- 

 ed my letter in the geutlenien's magazine, in fpring 

 1789. That great philanthrophift imported a large 

 quantity of the feed, which he fold for the benefit of 

 the humane fociety, and fmall debtors ; it is no wonder, 

 that as no feedfman was employed, they fhould all 

 abufe it unfeen. One farmer of this neighbourhood 

 from the fight, or rather from feeling the v/eight 

 of mine, was induced to fow four or five acres of it 

 in the following fpring, which he found of fo great 

 benefit to his lambs when weaned, that he determined 

 to fow fifteen acres laft fpring. He had then juft got 

 one of the Reverend Mr. Coke's patent drilling ma- 

 chines, and ploughed his land in ridges as direded in 

 the pamphelet fent with it ; but having given rather too. 

 good meafure, he took a furrow from each ridge for a 

 yow of potatoes. His two firft fowings (one I think 

 ■was in February, the other in March) alinoft all ran 

 to feed, and he fowed fome turnip feed on the ground, 

 which will account for his not having turned his lambs 



