BOOK III. CHAP. IX. 



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Garcinia Monona Siotia. p. 635. Mangoftecn. 



Ipecacuanha. D;ile, 1 70. True Ipecacuan. 



Loniccra Symphori- Clayt. St. I'eter's ho- 



carpoi. neyfiickle. 



Mfiica Cerifera. C:ite(b. I, Candle-berry 



t. 13. Myrtle. 



Panax quinquc folium. Ginfeng root. 



SaJJaJras Laurus. Pifo, p. 146. Saflafras. 



Bread-fruit of the South Sea. 

 Luktau, 



A mofl delicious fruit, growing 111 Java, and 

 fcveral parts of the Eaft InJies. 



Bralil. Vcr}' defcrving of propagation here. 



Carolina and Virginia. Its root pounded, and 

 taken in a moderate dofe, is an infallible remedy 

 againil intermittent fevers. 



The berries are ufcd in many parts of North 

 America, to extrad a wax for candles, by infu- 

 fion in boiling water. 



This is common to Virginia, Pennfylvania, 

 Louifiana, and Canada. 



It grows in great plenty in Eall Florida, and 

 about St. Augurtine. 



Eaft Indies, anil George's Ifland. 



This is a final] fpecies oi phafeolus, or kidney- 

 bean, growing in China, and lately introduced by 

 Mr. Samuel Bowen into Georgia, from whence 

 the feeds might eafily be obtained. He fays, 

 that where grafs is fcarce, this furnifhes an ex- 

 cellent fodder for cattle, as it may eafily be made 

 into hay; that it rifes from 18 inches to 2 feet 

 high, and produces four crops in the year; it is 

 therefore very deferving of a trial in different 

 parts of Jamaica, as there arc fome, no doubt, 

 where it might be found to thrive extremely 

 well. 



351. PREMIUMS offered by the Society of Arts in'Lon^onfor 



the Advantage of the Britijl) American Colonies. 



American Cotton. 



For the beft fpeclmen, not lefs than ten pounds, of cotton produced 

 in the Britifh dominions in America, equal to the fine Brafilian cotton; 

 to be produced, with certificates of the place of growth, on or before 

 the firft Tuefday in January, 1774 ; the gold medal. 



The fame premium is extended to the year i "^j^. 



Anotto. 



For the greateft quantity, not lefs than two tons, equal to the bell- 

 imported, produced in his Majeity's dominions in America, and im- 

 ported into the port of London in the year 1773; 50/. 



Certificates of the production, under the hands of fbme perfons of 

 known chara£ler refiding near the place, and of the importation from 

 the proper officers of the cuftoms in the port of London, with fpeci- 



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