1804.] 
4. The Morocco-pea, alfo, would give 
a prodigious crop of green food ; I fup- 
pofe, at leaft, four times as much as 
vetches; and that for many years from 
one fuwing, as it comes up agzin, like 
the everlafting-pea, every f{pring. 
5. Scotch kale planted out in June, in 
good land, will grow very large before 
winter, and I am perfuaded would give 
an abundant fupply for cattle, when no 
other juicy food is to be had. As it 
grows upwards, it may be planted clole, 
and a vait deal will fand upon an acre.— 
I have feen a few faint attempts to make © 
advantage of this, but they were not judi- 
cioufly managed. It was either planted 
out too late, or in very poor ground, and 
therefore it was not a fair trial. 
6. The late Mr. Howard (the cele- 
brated philanthropit,) gave mea few po- 
tatoes of a peculiar fort, which had been 
fent to him from America. I {oon in- 
creafed the quantity. The produce of 
them was at leaft double that of any other 
fort I know+ but they were not fit for 
table. I turned fome hogs into the land 
where they grew, and left them to root 
them up, and eat them, which they did 
completely, and grew as fat as I wiflied 
them to be for roafting-pork in a fhort 
time. By this means all attendance and 
trouble in fattening the hogs was faved, 
and the land was well manured for the 
Next crop, and the quantity of potatoes 
was fuch as paid me this way extremely 
well. Ihave fince Jot this fort of pota- 
toe ; but Mr. Howard told me that he had 
given it to many of his friends in Bedford- 
fhire. It is therefore very probable that 
it is Rill there. Dr. Rees mentions this 
fort, under the article Potatoe, in the firk 
edition of his Cyclepedia, with many 
particulars refpeéting it. 
7. It would, perhaps, be worth while 
to fcatter a number of mixed garden- 
feeds in a fmall piece of land, and, when 
they are fufficiently grown, toturn a horfe 
in among them, and watch him, to fee 
which he prefers. I did fo once, but 
have loft the memorandum of it. If my 
memory does not deceive me, the French 
honeyfuckle was eaten with great avidity. 
If fo, that would bea valuable plant to 
introduce into field-culture, becaufe it 
grows high, and bears a great crop. 
8. A fimilar experiment to the farmer, 
if the plants be left to ftand till fevere 
winter, might probably give the know- 
Jedge of fome ufeful plants for that feafon 
~. of fcarcity. 
g. Whoever obferyes the greedy man- 
Query to the Edinburgh Reviewers. 
503 
ner in which poultry of all forts, and alfo’ 
{mall birds, will devour the feeds of the 
large funflower, may perhaps think, like 
me, that this plant would give a vat 
quantity of food for them on a little 
ground. The experiment might be tried 
on a few poles. I have been told that 
they give a flavour to the flefli of poultry 
exactly like that of phealant. 
I! tnefe hints are acceptable, I may 
probably fend you, from time to time, 
many more. I am, &c. 
J. B. PIKE. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE Edinburgh Reviewers, in their 
Account of Mr. Pinkertcn’s Geogrie 
phy, (p. 80, No. V.) have thought fit to 
introduce the following remark: « Mr. 
Pinkerton ought to have mentioned that 
the Englith Tranflation of Keempfer’s Ja- 
pan, which was publifhed by the libera- 
lity of Sir Hans Sloane, is very zacomplete, 
and that the original intire work was 
lately publifhed in French, and, we be- 
lieve, in German, which alone ought to 
be confulted.’? 
Now, as the original work was cer- 
tainly written in German, it is rather 
{ftrange that a French tranflation fhould 
be denominated the origizal intire work. 
The Reviewers, perhaps, meant that the 
intire work had been publifhed in the 
French language; but this manner of 
ftating it is neither correétion nor elucidae 
tion. Their belef that the work has 
been publifhed in German, is ftill more 
obfcure. If there really be fuch a pub. 
lication, it is moft likely a tranflation ei- 
ther from the Englifh or French, and con- 
fequently not lefs incomplete. There 
was a French tranfla‘ion from Scheutzer’s » 
Englith verfion, publifhed at the Hague 
in1729 and 1732, and ancther in Dutch 
IN 1.729% a 
Kempfer had prepared his original 
German work for the prefs, but died be- 
tore he could publifh it. On his death, 
this manufcript, and the reft of Kamp- 
fer’s colleé&tions, were purchaled by Sir 
Hans Sloane, and are now among his ma- 
nufcripts in the Britifh Mufeum, If any 
other copy of equal authority remain, as 
the materials from which any French or 
German edition has been recently pub- 
lithed, the Reviewers would have deferved 
well of their readers in ftating fuch a faé&, 
and thereby fupplyine the omiffion com. 
plained of in Mr. Pinkerton’s work.— 
They fhould at least have proved thag 
: Mry; 
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