URNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



T H E ARTS. 



JULY, 1803. 



ARTICLE I. 



On the Naturalization of Plants. By John TempletoN; 

 A L. S. From the Iri/h Tranfadions, Vol. VIII. 



1 HE naturalization of plants is an object of fuch importance, Naturalization 

 and a fubjea that is at prefent fo little underftood, that any ^^"Jj" 1 * 

 attempt to extend our knowledge of it, however trifling, may 

 /till tend towards improvement, and perhaps ferve as a foun- 

 dation, on which at fome future period a more perfect ftruciure 

 may be erecled. Many experiments are yet wanting, much 

 remains to be yet done, and, like other branches of know- 

 ledge, it will require the united efforts of numbers to bring it 

 to perfection. 



The fame Almighty hand that formed the earth, has feat- though highly 



tered in far diftant regions vegetables which the neceffity or b « nefi ctel » 

 , r -. i • i i • / countries. 



ruxury or man excites him to endeavour to accumulate about 



his home. And if we at the prefent time furvey the different 

 nations of the earth, we will find that mpft of them have re- 

 ceived great and important benefits by the introduction of 

 foreign plants ; and that there is no country, however nume- 

 rous its collection of plants, but may yet receive confiderable 

 advantages by the naturalization of others. 



Botany, a fcience which every one engaged in the fhidy of Particularly t« 

 Will readily acknowledge to afford one of the pureft of human the ****** 



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