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

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

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

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

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

A large Acorn, from Virginia

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

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

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

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

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

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut

A double Hickory nut

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