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ON HEMP. 



Fresh seed should be chosen, of a bright colour, and so firm as to 

 bear being well rubbed betwixt the hands, which renders it brighter. 

 There is no mark of the sex discernible in the seed externally. 



The degeneracy of plants, and their disagreeing with the soil 

 and climate, are discovered by the changed appearance of the seed, 

 which in Hemp and Flax will be observed to become more elonga- 

 ted and less plump ; improvements, in that event, may be made, 

 by transferring the seed produced in one district to another of a dif- 

 ferent soil ; and, as in Hindoostan there is such a variety of climate 

 and soil, at distances not remote from each other, experiments may 

 be made there with more success than in Europe. This deserves 

 particular attention ; for, it is said, that the Dutch import all their 

 Flax-seed from Riga, and that Russia, on the other hand, provides 

 herself with seed from Holland. 



Sinclair. 



The best seed for Hemp is the smoothest, roundest, and bright- 

 est, with the least dust in it. 



England's Improvement. 



There is great nicety required in the choice of the seed, and 

 much is sold that is good for little. The method by which those 

 who are conversant in Hemp-seed judge of its goodness is by its 



weight, 



