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cess, and am now enabled to producte a winter seed crop, which 
furnishes a splendid flax, more silk-like than any other, as the 
sample No. 1 shows. 
a. Besides it has the advantages to be sown in the fall, not sub¬ 
ject to be sown either too early or too late, as this is often the 
case with the spring seed, and has always a failure of the crop in 
its train. 
b. That the winter seed shoot# sooner, yet before the weeds 
come out, which latter are kept back by it j it is earlier ripe, and 
can be brought in before the hands are wanted for other agricul¬ 
tural operations. 
c. In order to prevent the shooting in the fall, the seed must 
be worked in by the plow as late as possible, and then the seed 
is not damaged neither by twenty degrees of cold (Reaumur.) 
In the spring, as soon as the field is dry, it must be lightly har¬ 
rowed. It shoots with the .first rays of the warm sun, and is 
already in flower when other spring seed is sown, and before the 
insects can do it any harm. 
d. This wdnter seed is glossy, but dark and mixed with black 
grains, yet all shoot. It is a great deal more oily than the com¬ 
mon seed. 
If you will indicate the means by which to forward it, I am 
ready to send you a sufficient quantity of this seed, of course 
without payment. I would be happy to enter in connexion and 
correspondence with you. Your answer you can send me by 
means of the Ambassador, by the Imp. Agricultural Society at Pe- 
tersburgh, or direct by mail, addressed “ Kurland, Liebau a Pa- 
perboff.” I should like to have some seed of the Maclura auran- 
tiaca; and also, at due time, some notices about your exhibition. 
I am at any time ready to serve you also with the seed whose 
weed furnishes the persiese powder for killing insects of all kinds. 
LOON FALKERSABORF, 
Member of the Scientific Committee in the Ministerial Domain of the 
Imperial Geographical, Natural, Philosophical, Historical, Hor- 
ticolar and Ag. Son. at St. Petersburgh , Moskowa, Finland, Cau¬ 
casus, fyc. 8fc. fyc., and real, corresponding or honorary member 
in almost all the Europmn States. 
[ag. te. ’54.] 12 
