with Chineie Hemp Seed. 49 
proper rewards for the culture and manufacture of fo valuable 
a commodity, to fee it as fuccefsfully carried to perfection as 
1 
feveral other branches have happily attained by their care and 
protection ; and (hall think myfelf very happy in being any 
ways inftrumental in forwarding fo good a purpofe. 
As you did me the favour of examining the plants in a grow- 
ing fhte, I need not trouble you with any fpecimens from 
them ; but if they ihould be deemed worthy of being laid 
before the Society, I (hall fend fome of the hemp in the fate 
it was peeled, and a piece of the item it was peeled from, as 
alfo fpecimens of the leaf and flower, for their examination. 
I am, &c. 
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