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kitchen gardens, we have many that are troublesome enough, such 

 as the Chickweed, which was brought from England. There is no 

 getting rid of it. It flowers and seeds most part of the year. 



The Henbit is also another, that flowers and seeds most of the 

 summer. 



Shepherd's Purse is very plentiful in good ground ; but many 

 people make a good boiled salad of it ; so is our wild Purslane 

 very troublesome, though good when boiled. The small running 

 Mallow is pestering enough ; and two or three kinds of Veronica. 

 The Malvinda [jSida /] is very bad ; and so is the Mollugo. One 

 very tall species of the Amaranth is very troublesome, but some boil 

 it. to eat: and a species of Orach, which we call Lamb's Quarter, is 

 very tender when boiled. Docks and Sorrel are plague enough in 

 our pastures, meadows, and gardens, the last of which is very 

 hard to root out. These are most of the noxious weeds of our 

 gardens, that make us have so much work to destroy them, every 

 year, beside the grasses. 



PHILIP MILLER TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



Sir: 



I was yesterday favoured with your letter, dated June 16th, 

 1758, by which I am informed that part of the numbers of my 

 Figures of Plants, which I sent you, have miscarried ; which gives 

 me some concern, because they were duly sent as opportunities 

 offered. ***** 



I sent to Mr. Collixsox all the remaining numbers of my 

 Figures of Plants, and also those of the Gardener's Dictionary, 

 which have been printed since the last I sent you ; which are 

 directed for you, and Mr. Collixsox promised me to forward 

 them immediately to you ; so I hope you will receive them safely. 

 In your next, pray inform me what numbers are wanting in each, 

 that I may replace those which are lost. * * 



In the clod of earth which you sent me, there came up one sort of 

 Crataegus, which flowered last spring, and has now ripe fruit upon 

 it. which is small, round, and black ; but it came too late to be in- 

 serted in the Dictionary, so may be brought into a supplement. 



There is no determining the difference between C'ratcegus, Jles- 

 pilus, and Sorbus, either by the number of their styles, or that of 



