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A remarkable large Turnip, weighing 80lbs. which grew in North-Carolina the last season

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

A large Acorn, from Virginia

A transverse section of a Tree, which appears to have a second one within, there being two Saps and Barks. Cut in New Castle county. State of Delaware

The plants commonly called "Bone Set" prepared in this form by the Shakers at Berwick, Pa.

Areeka [areca] or Beetel Nuts, deprived of the outer covering

A double Hickory nut

A cluster of Pitch Pine, Burs [burls?] about 33 in number

Misseltoe (Viscum Album) taken from a tree near the tomb of General Washington

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

Several Large gooseberrys, the growth of Mr. Z. Collins's garden, one of which weight 10 pennyweight 22 grains

Large growth of Oats, raised near the City, measuring 6 feet 3-1/2 in. high