58 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



But the largest plant that has yet been produced here, is one I 

 sent to England, with several others, in July, 1810. — It was raised 

 from seed, put in the ground on the 3d of March, and transplanted 

 to land newly broken up, on the first of May, 1809 ; when it was 

 taken up in July (that is, at sixteen months from the period of 

 sowing) the circumference of the crown of the root measured 37 

 inches. It had about twenty strong horizontal branches, two or 

 three inches in diameter. — The leaves and small ends of those 

 branches were cut off, and weighed 52 pounds. The root afid 

 remaining parts of the branches on it, in the state it was sent to 

 England, weighed 63 pounds. — In all, the vieight of this one 

 plant, from unmanured land, was 115 pounds. I have been 

 since informed it was by far the largest of the kind ever seen in 

 England. 



\bth October, 1811. 



