Observations on the 
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neglect of gatherings and are not liable to be injured by 
rains, or destroyed by the attacks of birds. He mentions 
the cultivation of the plant in France for the sole pur- 
pose of extracting an oil ; and he recommends sowing 
the seeds very early in the spring, if not in December, as 
the early sown plants always arrive at the greatest height, 
and produce the largest quantity of seeds. The whole 
paper is worthy of perusal. 
The mode of culture is given in the same magazine, 
No. 7, by ff Amicus,” from Dr. Willick, and Mawe 
and Abercrombie’s Hardener’s Calendar. This per- 
son states the use of the oil in printing ; and of the 
cake , after expression of the oil, in feeding a pair of small 
oxen, who eat it greedily, and throve well upon two 
pounds a day. He further states the oil to be as fine 
transparent sweet oil as ever was produced from almonds; 
and that eighty pounds weight of clean seed produced 
eight quarts of oil, part of which he used in lamps, and 
found it burn with great pureness and brilliancy. 
In No. 9 of the above mentioned magazine, a writer 
conceives, that it may be successfully cultivated for the 
purpose of supplying clothiers with oil, instead of using 
the Florence oil imported from the Levant, anti which is 
sold to them when it becomes rancid, for the purpose of 
softening their wool, when preparing for the loom. 
We have another writer on the subject in the 27 th No. 
a Mr. John Wright, w ho estimates the crop produced by 
him at not less than twenty quarters of seed to the acre ; 
though he considers it a tedious crop to harvest, from its 
ripening at so many different periods : he nevertheless ap- 
pears to think well of it upon the whole. 
I have thus collected a mass of facts, w hich altogether, 
I think, render this plant worthy the attention of the far- 
mer, and afford adequate encouragement to a fair trial of 
its real importance, in affording a most important article 
