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XXIII. . A Letter from Mr. Chriftopher 

 'Gullet to Matthew Maty, M. D. Sec. 

 R. S. on the Effe&s of Elder, in preferr- 

 ing Growing Plants from Infecls and Flies*.. 



Taviftock (Devon) Auguft 1 r, 177?, 



SIR, 



Read May i 4 ,tt SHOULD not prefume to trouble you. 



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J_ as a member of the Royal Society 

 with the following letter, did not the fubject feem to 

 promife to be of great public utility. It relates to . 

 -the effects of Elder; 



Sambucus jrudtu in 11m ' ella nigro* 



lit. In preferving cabbage plants from being eaten 

 or damaged by caterpillers. 



2d. In preventing blights, and their effects on fruit 

 and other trees. 



3d. In the prefsrvation of crops of wheat from; 

 the yellows, and other deftructive infecls. 



4th. Alio in faving crops of turnips from the Ry 3 

 Sec. &c. 



?ft, I was led to my fir ft experiments, by con- 

 fidering how difagreeable and oftenfive to our olfac- 

 tory nerves the effluvia emitted by a brum of green 

 2 elder 



