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refledting on thefe feveral circumftances, a thought 
fuggefled itfelf to me, whether an elder, now efteemed 
noxious and offenlive, may not be one day ieen 
planted with, and entwifting its branches among, 
fruit trees, in order to preferve the fruit from de- 
ftrudion of infects : and whether the fame means 
which produced thefe feveral effects, may not be ex- 
tended to a great variety of other cafes, in the pre- 
fervation of the vegetable kingdom. 
The dwarf elder ( ebulus ) 1 apprehend emits more 
offenlive effluvia than common elder, therefore mud 
be preferable to it in the feveral experiments. 
On mentioning lately to Sir Richard W.Bampfylde, 
one of the reprefentatives of this county, my obfer- 
vations on the corn crops, and the effedts of the 
elder, &c. he perfuaded me to publifh them, which 
ifflfome meafure determined my taking this ftep, of 
tranfmitting them to a Society incorporated for pro- 
moting the knowledge of natural things, and ufeful 
experiments, in which they have fo happily and 
amply fucceded, to the unfpeakable advantage and 
improvement both of the old and new world. I have 
the honour to fubfcribe myfelf, 
S 1 R, 
Your mod obedient, 
humble Servant, 
Chr. Gullett. 
XXIV. A 
