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pliance with it, have thrown together, for his 

 Highness's information, every thing relative to 

 this grass that I conceive to be sufficient to 

 make him acquainted with the natural history 

 and habits of florin, and the proper mode of 

 cultivating it, so as to raise from it such im- 

 mense crops of hay as we are used to see it 

 produce in this country. 



I return my most sincere thanks to my 

 Danish Pupils for introducing my fa- 

 vourite to an amateur of such exalted rank ; I 

 well know^ the success with which they have 

 cultivated florin in their own country, and 

 the pains they have taken to make their 

 neighbours of Sweden and Norway par- 

 takers of the advantages they themselves are 

 deriving from this grass, and for which they 

 express so much gratitude. 



I am proud to flnd my protSgS travelling 

 southward^ and may live to see the dominions 

 of our Imperial Ally highly beneflted by the 

 introduction of this grass; for when such 

 eminent personages as their Highnesses the 



