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Dr. Young has brought a certificate from the chief magiflrate 
of St. Vincent’s, that he had growing in this garden 140 
healthy plants of the true Cinnamon, the beginning of May, 
1772.. The Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufac- 
tures, and Commerce, being fenfible of the importance of pro- 
pagating this valuable fpice in our American Iflands, have pre- 
sented him with a Gold Medal, as a token ot their efteem and,, 
approbation. 
When Dr. Young firfl planted the Cinnamon feeds, feveral 
parcels of which he had received at different times, he found, 
though he planted them with great care, that none of them 
came up : but being driven by ftrefs of weather into Guada-- 
loupe, he obtained leave to go up into the country where there 
are fome Cinnamon-trees ; and looking for fome feeds that had 
fallen from thefe trees, he found many juft fhooting out their 
roots among the grafs and. rotten leaves under them. Taking 
this hint, the next feeds he received, he fowed very fliallow in 
the earth, under the fhade of a tree, and from 200 feeds raifed 
140 plants. 
He further obferves, that the grafTes to be propagated for 
cattle, are the Scotch grafs, ox Panlcum^ the, fecond of Browne’s 
Hift. of Jamaica, and the Guinea grafs, ox Holcus, the fecond 
of the fame author.. The latter requires lefs moifture than the 
former; both are propagated by parting their roots,, and then 
planting them in rows, and are of the greatefl ufe in the iflands. 
In many of our Eafl-India fettlements thefe gralfes would 
be of infinite fervice, where red and white Clover and Lucerne 
have been tried, and will not come to perfedion : which is the 
reafon of my taking notice of them here. The roots may be 
-brought to England, packed in mofs, or replanted in earth, 
and from hence fent to the Eaft-Indies in wired boxes, where 
they 
