iSz hints respecting domestic economy, -^ug, 7. 



the fetid juice which forms the famous drug, having ap- 

 peared in considerable quantity *; 



The plants we reserved for this country, have all pe- 

 lilhed, so that if Britain pofsefs it still it is unique in 

 Europe. 



RoBiNiA pygmea. 



I forgot to mention above, when inquiring after the 

 robinia ferox, another species of it, viz, the pygmea, 

 which might pofsibly be employed for some useful pur- 

 pose by your industrious people, since the lazy wandering 

 Tartars about Krasnojarlk in Siberia, obtain a species of 

 coarse thread from it f . 



You will observe, Mr Editor, as I am very little a san- 

 guine projector, and very little fired with modern enthu- 

 siasm of any kind, pofsibly from living so long amongst 

 ice and snow, that I only propose for trial such of 

 our hardy Siberian plants as are likely to succeed in your 

 northern sterile, and waste lands 5 hoping that the more 

 southern and fertile, are too well employed to be the 

 theatre of experiment, 1 fliall only depart from that ma- 

 xim in mentioning a Jamaicrf plant, which however has 

 been tried in Sweden by Linnaeus's advice, although I 

 have not heard of its succels there as yet, being long iiq- 



* I am bappy to be able to inform this correspondent that the 

 Ferula Dsp.foetida is still alive in the Botanic garden here. It has 

 several times produced ripe seeds, by which means the plant has been 

 multiplied, so that there are now a good many plants of it here in a 

 very thriving condition. It bears our hardest winters quite well. 



Edit. 



+ I do not know that this plant has been introduced into Britain, 

 Will be obliged to any correspondent for imformation concerning it, 

 if it has. Edit. 



