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continue in fucceffion until the end of fum- 

 mer, when they make room for the feed. 

 Thefe are of a brown colour, kidney-fhaped, 

 and very fmall, each capfule generally con- 

 taining about a thoufand, and the whole 

 produce of a fingle plant is eftimated at three 

 hundred and fifty thoufand. The feeds are 

 ufually ripe in the month of September, 

 and when perfectly dry may be rubbed out 

 and preferved in bags till the following fea- 

 fon. 



The Oronokoe, or, as it is termed by the 

 feedfmen, the long Virginia, appears to me 

 to be the fort beft fuited to bear the rigour of 

 a northern climate, the ftrength of the plant, 

 as well as the fcent and efficacy of the leaves 

 being greater than the other. The fweeN 

 fcented flourifhes moft in a fandy foil and 

 warm countries, where it greatly exceeds 

 the former in the celerity of its growth ; 

 and although, as I have before obferved, it 

 differs from the Oronokoe only in the fhape 

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