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brother Mr. Philip Miller, from vvhofe knowledge 
of, and publications in, botany, agriculture, and gar- 
dening, the public has received very great informa- 
tion and advantage. In confequence of my defire,, 
Mr. Charles Miller has informed me, that having 
made, in the autumn of 1765, ard in the Ipring of 
1 766, an experiment of the divifion and tran (planta- 
tion of wheat, by which near two thoufand ears were 
produced from a fingle grain ; and he having reafon 
to think, from the fuccefs attending this experiment, 
that a much greater quantity might be produced, he 
determined to repeat the experiment next year. 
Accordingly, on the fecond of June, 1766, he 
fowed fome grains of the common red wheat j and, 
on the eighth of Auguft, which was as foon as the 
plants were firong enough to admit of a divifion, a 
fingle plant was taken up, and was feparated into 
eighteen parts. Each of thefe parts was planted again 
feparately. Thefe plants having pufhed out feveral 
fide fhoots by about the middle of September, fome 
of them were then taken up, and divided ; and the 
reft of them between that time and the middle of 
October. This fecond divifion produced fixty feven 
Thefe plants remained through the winter ; and 
another divifion of them, made between the middle 
of March and the twelfth of April, produced five 
hundred plants. They were then divided no. further, 
but permitted to remain. 
The plants were in general ftronger than any of the 
wheat in the fields. Some of them produced upwards of 
an hundred cars from a fingle root. Many of the ears 
mealured. 
