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& therefore I did not wish to take that which might be given to others more in want, & more deserving it.
I have during the last summer paid all the attention I possibly could to the subject on which I have written & I have often employed the Eyes of my Friends as well as my own, & some of those Friends are ingenious medical men who have made Botany a task of their Study. Between the Sheets of my paper I have included leaves of seedling Grapes produced between the Male of the Aleppo Grape & the female white sweetwater. The Berries will, I have not the smallest doubt, be striped, as a few of the Aleppo sometimes are. I believe few Instances have occurred in which variegated Trees have produced variegated offspring. These Leaves are perfectly green all the summer & become variegated towards Autumn: I have twenty Plants & every one different.
The varieties of wheat I mentioned many times to you have done wonders this year. From one Field of fifteen Acres & a half (Statute] I had forty five heavy Waggon Loads but I can not say what will be the Produce per Acre; but I think from what has been threshed it can not be less the eighty Gallons a Load. My Straw is always