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I beg to refer you to Mr. Skirving, of Walton, who sowed last 

 year a variety of the Camelina sativa ; and to Mr. Gibbs, 

 Piccadilly. 



" In conclusion, allow me to observe that, when last in 

 London, I made an essay to see you, for the purpose of ex- 

 plaining the mistake which I conceived you had made. 



" I now disclaim having included you in that plundering 

 fraternity to whom I alluded. Indeed, my strictures referred 

 to such men only as would sell a single seed for a shilling, and 

 make ten tons of guano out of one, &c., &c. Nor, in alluding 

 to Hegent Street and the Polytechnic, had I any other motive 

 beyond pointing out to the public the liberty taken with my 

 pamphlet, and the disappointment that would be experienced. 

 My constant aim being to advance the interest of agriculture, 

 regardless of all personal and pecuniary considerations, I trust 

 you will acknowledge that I could not have been instigated by 

 any feelings of animosity against yourself, and that the pro- 

 ceedings you have instituted against me are, at all events, 

 premature. 



" I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, 



" JOHN WARNES, Jun. 

 " To W. Taylor, Esq., F.L.S" 



Mr. Taylor, in his letter now under consideration, observes, 

 " I should scorn to disgrace the columns of a journal so useful 

 to agriculturists, by false statements or theoretical ones. On 

 the 16th of March last I planted five acres of the Gold of 

 Pleasure and two acres of flax side by side; the soil is the 

 same, a rich light loam, in high cultivation : with the Gold of 

 Pleasure the seed was drilled in, from nine to twelve inches 

 apart, in rows.*' He further observes, with respect to the flax 

 planted by the side of the Gold of Pleasure, that " it was sown 

 at the same time, on the same kind of soil, and manured and 

 treated in the same manner." 



Mr. Taylor has omitted to state the quantity of seed used ; 

 but, from his printed directions for the Gold of Pleasure now 

 before me, I presume ten pounds per acre ; and, as the flax was 

 " treated in the same manner/' of course ten pounds only of 



