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so seldom produce good full crops of Flowers in our gardens.
You are also to make use of every opportunity Mr Lance may Point out to you, of observing the manner in which the Chinese Cultivate The usual fruits of the Earth: whether they use the drill, the Broadcast or the Dibling [indecipherable] in what manner [note in margin] & in what quantity, they apply their manure to their annual crops & also to their year & perennial Productions, in what manner they cultivate the Fruits & Esculents Roots produced by the water as Trapa bicornis, & the Sagittaria called in Chinese yng gaw & you are very particularly to notice the methods they take to meliorate & Ripen their manure & the time which they usualy keep it before they think it fit for use, & the manner in which they preserve it, & all those matters you are to Communicate to me
as the Chinese are said to make the best White Rope in the world you will do well