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ing, return, and inrollmest. As our habits and 
attention are formed to these, it will perhaps be bet- 
ter to preserve them unaltered. But if a condescen~ 
dence be not lodged within a fortnight, I think the 
cause fhould go to be advised as it stands; and 
that the same thing may safely take place as to 
answers, replies, and duplies. The clerks and their 
afsistants might be ordained to mark the date of lodg- 
ing on each of these papers ; and there fhould be 
an absolute prohibition against receiving one pa- 
per of them after the fourteenth day is run. If 
such a regulation were made, these papers would 
no more be received after the days, than a represen- 
tation could after the interlocutor becomes final. 
The debate fhould be pretty full when it comes the 
length of duplies, which ought, I think, to be the last 
‘paper allowed of. But here a difficulty occurs. 
The respondent often makes some production along 
with his duplies ; and it would be laying the conde- 
scender under a disadvantage if he were not to see the 
constant selection in this way, he thinks perhaps the produce might be 
prodigiously augmented. 
I had occasjon to take notice, Bee vol. vi. p. 96. that another at- 
tentive gentleman, had, by the same mode of selection, obtained a vat 
Tiety of pease much more early than the common ; and no doubt by 
an equal degree of care, other valuable peculiarities might be in- — 
creased. 
Another gentleman of my acquaintance having about a dozen yearS 
ago thus selected some ears of wheat of a peculiarly fine quality, has ob" 
tained a.variety, which by a continuance of the same care , now yields 
him a crop which he is confident, in equal circumstances, will be ia 
: general worth two guineas per acre more than if he had taken his seed 
atrandom. ‘This opens up a wide field for the attentive and industri-™ 
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