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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

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

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

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

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

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

A double Hickory nut

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

A singular Squash

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

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

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward