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I beg to refer you to Mr, Skirving, of Walton, who sowed last 

 year a variety of the Camelina sativa; and to Mr. Gibbs, 

 Piccadilly. 



" In conclusion, allow me to observe,that, when last in London, 

 1 made an essay to see you, for the purpose of explaining the 

 mistake, which I conceived you had made. 



'^I now disclaim having included you in that plundering fra- 

 ternity to whom I alluded. Indeed, my strictures referred to 

 such men only as would sell a single seed for a shilling, and 

 make ten tons of guano out of one, &c., &c. Nor, in alluding 

 to Regent-street, and the Polytechnic, had I any other motive 

 beyond pointing out to the public the liberty taken with my 

 pamphlet, and the disappointment that would be experienced. 

 My constant aim being to advance the interest of agriculture, 

 regardless of all personal and pecuniary considerations, I trust 

 you will acknowledge that I could not have been instigated by 

 any feelings of animosity against yourself, and that the pro- 

 ceedings you have instituted against me are, at all events, 

 premature. 



" I remain. Sir, your obedient servant, 



" John Warnes, Jun. . 



" To W. Taylor, Esq., F.L.S." 



Mr. Taylor, in his letter now under consideration, observes, 

 " I should scorn to disgrace the columns of a journal so useful 

 to agriculturists, by false statements or theoretical ones. 

 On the 16th of March last I planted five acres of the Gold of 

 Pleasure, and two acres of flax side by side ; the soil is the same, 

 a rich light loam, in high cultivation : with the Gold of Pleasure, 

 the seed was drilled in, from nine to twelve inches apart, in 

 rows." He further observes with respect to the flax planted 

 by the side of the Gold of Pleasure, that " It was sown at the 

 same time, on the same kind of soil, and manured and treated 

 in the same manner." 



Mr. Taylor has omitted to state the quantity of seed used; 

 but, from his printed directions for the Gold of Pleasure now 

 before me, I presume ten pounds per acre ; and, as the flax was 

 " treated in the same manner," of course ten pounds only of 



