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 vegetable; or even of almost any other cultivated plant of our gardens; and that its true nature is little known among the generality of gardners. Some, even amongst experienced and ingenious professors, who raise all other plants in perfection, have been found often to fail in the article here described.

This plant is of so very singular a growth and temperature, that, unless a proper idea of its nature and habit is attained, and the pe- culiar