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treated is semitransparent, ©f a yellowifti colour, and has 

 a very agreeable taste when boiled up in milk, ia 

 form of porridge, their usual way of eating it, as I have 

 been informed by a friend residing in Siberia; 



Tbe Polygonum convohoJus. 



But there Is another species of polygonum, vi%, the. 

 P. co/iWWaj of Linnaeus, which I think merits a fair trial 

 with you, and promises to be useful iu some parts of 

 Scotland, from its polsefsing the following qualities. 



First, it is a hardy Siberian plant like the former, which 

 is not hurt by even a much severer cold than any it can 

 meet with in your island. 



Second, it will grow on the poorest grounds. 



"Third, because the grain ripens a/together, which facili- 

 tates much the getting of it in, in northern situations. 



Fourth, because it carries more grain than the polygo- 

 num Tataricum, the wild Siberian buck wheat you in- 

 quired after. 



It likewise grows wild like the other, in several parts 

 of Siberia, particularly about Murom on the Okka, and 

 might probably be an acquisition to some of the more 

 iiorchcrn sterile lands of Scotland. 



I send you the seeds of the polygonum Tataricum, and 

 fhall write to Siberia for the other. * 



* Some of the seeds of the polygonum Tataricum, which accom- 

 panied this letter, were sown as soon as pofsible after they arrived. 

 They came up very readily, and are now growing vigorously. In 

 corroboration of this correspondent's opinion, the plant has the ha- 

 bit, and much the appearance of an annual. 



I am much obliged to this valuable correspondent for his at- 

 tention in this and every other respect ; and fliall exert my- 

 self to make the best use in my power of his communications. The 

 polygonum cowjolvolus, isfound in some places of this country, and 

 seeds of it may probably be got here. It never attracted my notice 

 as a plant promising to be of much utility ; but I fliall now examine 

 it with more atteation. Edit. 



