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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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160 The Floral King.

“‘T leave it to you, sir, to judge whether one ought
to give one’s opinion so publicly about the mulberry
trees, who knows if the English may not prevent us
and begrudge us this! More likely better to keep
silent regarding a great many expectations until one
has them safe in hand; regarding which confer with
Baron Harleman.”

Linnzus seems justified in his suspicion of the
English jealousy, for he wrote in 1755 to Wargentin,
“* Some years ago an Oeconomus in England, sent the
Academy of Science a specification of a number of
results arrived at, each which he would reveal for
a certain stipulated price. Let me know what is
his name. Amongst those were also a new kind of
grain, which was incomparable for husbandry, and
was preferable to wheat, and of which a few grains
accompanied, and being present I got a few. I well
observed that they were purposely dried so that they
might not grow, but one came up and has now
increased itself, so that this summer I shall get a
small quantity. Let me know all that he wrote
respecting this kind of grain, and what he demanded

forit. This promises well.”

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