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

A double Hickory nut

Water Melon, purchased in the Jersey market by the donor, said to be not fit to eat, until the Spring of the year

Several specimens of the Fring'd Oak or Moss Acorn of Penna.

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

A leaf of the Beach [beech] from the sulphur Springs, Gene. [Genesee, N.Y.]

A large Acorn, from Virginia

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

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

Specimen of the fiber of Asclipias [Asclepias] Bombycina or Swallow wart, or Milk weed

A Weed of the Sea called, Cape Ann [morring?]

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

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