32 on the sun flower, and sesamum orientale, Sept. 4x 
_ He pretends not to state the quantity cured by other 
adventurers in the fifhery, but mentions his own at 120 
small barrels yearly, which he makes of oak and larch. 
On the economical uses of the helianthus annuus, or sun 
flower. : 
The seeds afford a good eatable oil; the stalks potafh 
when burned, like those of Turkifh corn, From the large 
quantity of pith obtaining in the stalks, paper may be 
made. 
The young stalks are eat at Frankford on the Main 
as greens; and the old used as fire wood. 
Lastly, the stalks when broken by the wind, will unite 
again if tied up *. 
On the sesamum orientale. 
All that I hall extract from this paper, as the plant 
will not answer in your climate, is that its seeds afford 
a salad oil equa) to what is drawn from olives, in the 
large proportion of one half pound from two pounds of 
seed. This lonly give as a matter of curiosity, although 
it may be useful in our colonies; but I have, and thall 
be more full, on all such hardy plants, as promise to be 
of use to Great Britain, for which you know my at- 
tachment, and contempt for all innovators who would trou- 
ble its peace, if the good sense cf the nation did not keep 
them in awe. . 
I send you some very freth seed just obtained from the 
Boucharian Tartars, of the sesamum orientale, which 
* This plant has been recommended to the notice of the farmers 
in France some years ago, in the memoirs of the Society of Agricul- 
ture Paris, for nearly the same purposes as are mentioned here. It is 
a strong growing plant, but does not ripen its seeds soon enough to 
admit of being cultivated with any prospect of profit in Scotland or 
supposein any part of Great Britain. Eiit. 
