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A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

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

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

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

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

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

A double Hickory nut

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

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

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

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

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

A large Acorn, from Virginia