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OBSERVATIONS, tending to fhew the 

 Utility of botanical Knowledge in Relation to 

 Agriculture, and the feeding of Cattle : accom- 

 panied with a Tranflation of Linn^us's Pa7J 

 Suecusy accommodated to the EngU/h Plants^ 

 with references to Authors, and to Figures of the 

 Plants. 



TH E fcience of botany certainly holds its 

 moft dignified ftation when fubfervient to 

 medicine but its utility does not terminate in this 

 alone, though it has too long been confidered as 

 having no other connedlion. This, notwithftand- 

 ing, is but a partial, nay even an injurious idea 

 of it, for nothing has more retarded its ufefulnefs 

 than this contradted notion. It has a relation, in 

 a variety of ways, to many other arts and fciences. 

 Among which may be mentioned the art of paint- 

 ing and dying ; but of all others Agriculture cer- 

 tainly claims the ftrideft relation, fome of its moft 

 important branches being greatly dependent upon 

 it, and others, from an happy application of it, 

 being perhaps capable of further emolument. The 

 fubfequent paper, it is prefumed, will, in fome 

 meafure, illuftrate this truth. But howfoever great 

 the real dignity and importance of this art, yet, 

 it muft be allowed, that it has not been cultivated 

 fufficiently on fcientific principles, nor advanced 

 in equal proportion with other branches of know- 

 ledge. It is not many years fince Dr. Home ob- 

 I ferved, 



