CHINESE SUGAK CANE. 



The Chinese Sugar Cane, introduced into the United 

 States through the agency of the Patent Office, has attract-^ 

 ed the attention of experimental and practical cultivators 

 throughout the country, and awakened a lively interest 

 among all classes. It is, according to the official report 

 published by our national government in 1854, "a new 

 gramineous plant, -which seems to be destined to take 

 an important position among our economical products 

 •was sent four years since from the north of China, by 

 M. de Montigny, to the (reographical Society of Paris. 

 From a cursory examination of a small field of it growing 

 at Yerrieres, in France, in aulumn of 1853, I was led to in- 

 fer that, from the peculiarity of the climate, and its resem- 

 blance in appearance and habit to Indian corn, it would 

 flourish in any region wherever that plant would thrive. 

 But how far it will serve the purpose ascribed to it in 

 France, should it even succeed in every part of the United 



States, can only be determined by extended experiments. 

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" Sorgho Sucre is a plant which on rich land grows 

 to the height of from two to three or more yards. Its 

 stems are straight and smootli, having leaves somewhat 

 flexous and felling over, greatly resembling Indian corn la 

 appearance, but is more elegant in form. It is generally 

 cultivated in hills containing eight or ten stalks each, which 

 bear at their tops a conical panicle of dense flowers, green 

 at first, but changing into violet shades, and finally, into 



