INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 



compilation, I now offer it improved by the experience of 

 another year, and by the curtailment of ancient directions 

 found totally incompatible with modern improvements. 



My book having reference to other topics, besides the 

 culture of flax and use of the seed, I wished to obviate the 

 republication of any matter that might appear irrelevant 

 to the permanent establishment of the flax-cause, and 

 therefore had the following advertisement inserted in all 

 the county-papers of Norfolk : 



" A Second Edition of Mr. Warnes' Work on the Flax- 

 Crop and Use of the Seed is in course of preparation for the 

 press. 



" The Author, therefore,, invites all parties entertaining ob- 

 jections to the views, principles,, and statements contained in 

 the first Thousand copies, to offer them publicly or privately, 

 within one month from the present date, in order that in- 

 accuracies and misunderstandings may be explained and 

 rectified. Trimingham, Jan. 1, 1847." 



Two communications only were elicited : one, from a 

 respectable and inoffensive neighbour, whose acknow- 

 ledged " narrow education " evinced his incompetency to 

 "revise" those historical passages, which educated and 

 enlarged minds could alone appreciate ; the other, from an 

 anonymous rhymester, whose objections, conveyed in dog- 

 grel verse, are fit only for recital by the vagrant orator. 



That no solid objections could be raised, I was of 

 course aware. But, on the present occasion, I resolved 

 to test the merits of my advocacy by a measure, unpre- 

 cedented perhaps in the annals of literary announcements. 

 The result must prove satisfactory to every candid reader ; 

 and induce many to co-operate systematically in carrying 

 out the plans contained in the following pages. Systema- 



