55'B  Mr.  barker’s  Regijler , &c. 
peafe  and  other  garden-fluff  remarkably  forward ; and 
after  that  time  the  wetteft  fummer  he  ever  knew. 
The  forwardnefs  of  the  fpring  at  firfl  might  make  the 
farmers  expefc  an  early  harvefl,  as  the  account  above 
fays  they  did. 
The  year  1723  was  as  dry  as  this  was  wet. 
In  the  fpring  1776,  there  was  a remarkable  quantity 
of  feed  upon  the  elms,  of  which  I fow’d  a confiderable 
parcel,  both  of  the  upright  kind  and  of  the  witch  elm. 
I believe,  not  above  one  feed  in  five  hundred  or  a thou- 
sand, grew;  but  thofe  which  did  made  much  finer  plants 
than  thofe  raifed  from  fuckers,  efpecially  the  upright 
kind,  two  of  which  were  full  five  feet  high  in  a year  and 
half  from  feed,  and  as  thick  at  the  bottom  as  my  finger. 
They  were  fown  on  a north  border,  to  keep  them  from 
the  fcorching  fun,  but  the  flies  dellroyed  fome  of  the 
plants  at  their  firfl  coming  up.  However,  notwithfland- 
ing  the  uncertainty  of  their  growing,  I think  to  fow  fome 
more  of  the  feed,  when  there  is  any  to  be  got. 
