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Being defirous of afcertaining the fact, be it 13. 



what it may, I have enquired further among BERBERY. 

 intelligent farmers concerning this fubjedt. 

 They are, to a man, decided in their opinion as 

 to the fact ; which appears to have been fo 

 long eflabliflied in the minds of principal 

 farmers, that it is now difficult to ascertain it 

 from obfervations ; berbery plants having (of 

 late years more particularly) been extirpated 

 from farm-hedges with the utmoft care and 

 afliduity : one infiance, however, of mifchief, 

 this year, I had related to me, and another I was 

 myfclf eye-witnefs to. Mr. William Barnard, 

 ofBradfield, fays, that this year feeing a patch 

 of his wheat very much blighted, he looked 

 round for a berbery-bum ; but feeing none 

 confpicuous in the hedge, which was thick, 

 he with fome difficulty got into it, and there 

 found the enemy. He is clearly decided as to 

 the fad. Mr. William Gibbs, of Rowton, 

 telling me that a patch of his wheat was blight- 

 ed in the fame manner, and that he believed it 

 to proceed from fome fprigs of berbery which 

 remained in the neighbouring hedge (which a 

 few years ago was weeded from it) I went to 



fince obferved, that the berbery blows feveral weeks before 

 wheat (hoots into ear. 



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