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they may be of great advantage, particularly the Guinea grafs. 
The Chluefe have a fmall Phafeolus^ or Kidney-bean, which 
they call Luktau. This has been lately introduced into Georgia, 
by Mr. Samuel Bowen, who makes Sago there.; he fays, 
where grafs is fcarce, this furnillies excellent fodder for cattle, 
as it may be ealily made into hay .; that it rifes from i8 inches 
to two feet high, and produces four crops in the year. It 
might, therefore, prove very ufeful to our iflands, as well as 
to our Eaft-India fettlements. 
I cannot avoid mentioning how much we are indebted to tlie 
extraordinary attention of John Bradby Blake, Efq; rehdent 
Factor at Canton, who fent over laid year a great variety of the 
feeds of curious plants, from the northern parts of China, 
which he had procured by means of the Jefuits, and which his 
father, Capt. Blake, has mod: generoufly difpofed of to the 
Royal, and other Botanic Gardens, about London, to be pro- 
perly taken care of. This gentleman has likewife fent a par- 
cel of the Cochin China Rice, the, feeds >of the Tallow-tree, 
the fingle Gardenia^ for dying fcarlet, and many other curious 
and ufeful feeds from Canton, in order to be fent to our Ame- 
rican Colonies, together with a great variety of elegant plants 
from thence, in a grov/ing Rate. Further, Mr. Blake has 
now in his employ, two eminent Chinefe Artifts, to 
paint all the valuable plants of that country., in their proper 
colours, both in flower and fruit ; fpccimens of this work he 
has fent to his father, and which have been much admired by 
the bed: judges that have feen them. 
N. B. It is earnedly recommended to fuch perlbns as col- 
led: feeds and plants in foreign parts, to remark the par- 
icular kind of foil and fltuation, in which each plant 
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