By Mr. Isaac Oldaker. 



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duced from them, since I have cultivated these plants for Sir 

 Joseph Banks. 



In the winter of were gathered 



1816 and 1817, from 300 pots, 566 dozen flowers. 



1817 and 1818, 400 1062 



1818 and 1819, 300 1032 



I attribute the proportional increase of the second season 

 to my becoming more experienced in the proper mode of 

 treatment ; but the great addition of nearly one-fourth of 

 produce in the third season, was certainly occasioned by the 

 use of the bones ; to which the flourishing condition of the 

 plants, when I took them up last autumn, is also attri- 

 butable. 



