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grounds ! Ten feet long, and straight as a gun 

 stick ! I shall send some of the seed to Eng 

 land this year, and cause a trial to be made ; 

 and I will, in my Gardening Book, give full in 

 structions for the cultivation. Of this book, 

 which will be published soon, I would, if you 

 lived in this world, send you a copy. These 

 are the best uses of maritime intercourse: the 

 interchange of plants, animals, and improve 

 ments of all sorts. I am doing my best to re 

 pay this country for the protection which it has 

 given me against our indemnified tyrants. "Cob- 

 " bett's pigs and Swedish Turnips" will be 

 talked of long after the bones of Ellenborough, 

 Gibbs, Sidmouth, Castlereagh and Jenkinson 

 will be rotten, and their names forgotten, or 

 only remembered when my " trash" shall. 



1044. This is a rambling sort of Letter. 1 

 now come back to the Broom-Corn for thatch. 

 Sow it in roivs about five feet asunder; or, ra 

 ther, on ridges, a foot wide at the top, with an 

 interval of jive feet; let the plants stand all 

 over this foot wide, at about three inches apart, 

 or less. Keep the plants clear of weeds by a 

 couple of weedings, and plough well between 

 the ridges three or four times during the sum 

 mer. This will make the plants grow tall, 

 while their closeness to each other will make 

 them small in thickness of stem or stalk. It 



