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Metto Bee-hives, tho' I have receiv'd great Inflru&ion 
from them, nor fhall venture to do it, 'till another Year's 
Experience of the propagating of them. I am quite dis- 
couraged as to making a Vineyard : for the Vines of this 
Country burft the Grape , and render to no purpofe 
our Endeavours, having great Winds, and little Sun, 
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Tour affectionate humble Servant, 
R fc Bulkely. 
M r Bays Note on the former Letter concerning the Maize. 
IHave not much to fay : He hath made a commendable EJJay ; 
but whether it will turn to Account to plant Maize in Ireland, 
I think there is fome reafon to doubt : If it be equal in goodnefi to 
Peafe, and an Acre planted with it will certainly yield more than 
one fown with Peafe, without impovertjhing the Land; then indeed it 
will he advantageous to plant it : but if only an equal quantity, then 
tbd' one Grain fijould yield a thoufand-fold, all the advantage will be 
in the difference of the Seed, which is not very con fider able, and which 
the Compendium of Sowing above Setti?jg may in fome meafure cw 
tervail. As for the Defer ipt ion of the Plant, all the Parts of it have 
been fo particularly and exaclly defer ibed in Englifli as well as Latin, 
that I think it needltfito publtfb a new Defer iption ; only lam by this 
"Defer ipt ion confirmed in my Opinion, That there are two really difiincl 
Species of Maiz : for what I have feen cultivated in Gardens, and 
have my felf planted, arifeth to double the (lature he afcribes to this, 
that is 7, 8, or 10 Feet ; and befides, with us> never brings the Seed 
near to perfection : but thai I have feen planted in the Fields in Ger- 
many, is of about the fame height with Sir Richard' s, and ripens the 
Seed. Lobel alfo acknowledges two forts thus differing. 
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