SEEDS FROM THE PATENT OFFICE. 



BY LEVI BARTLETT ESQ., OF WARNER. 



It is now generally known that, for some years past, 

 consideral)le sums of money have been appropriated by 

 Congress for the procurement of such seeds, plants and 

 cuttings from every quarter of the globe, as would admit of 

 useful and successful cultivation in this country. Many of 

 the new kinds and varieties of seeds introduced, may prove 

 worthless for cultivation in the northern States, that may 

 prove valuable acquisitions to the rural products of the 

 middle and southern States. Thus, many varieties of win- 

 ter wheat, recently obtained from foreign sources, may do 

 well when grown in the middle and southern States, while 

 several varieties, upon actual trial, have been found too 

 tender to withstand the rigors of the winters at the north, 

 when sown side by side with some of our long cultivated 

 sorts, which generally escape the winter unharmed. So, 

 doubtless, it will prove with many other kinds of seed. 

 But from actual trial, there is no doubt that many varieties 

 of cabbage, turnip, and esculents, &c., <tc-, the seeds of 

 which have been procured through the agency of the patent 

 office, and so freely distributed to every section of our 

 country, will prove most valuable additions to our former 

 stock of plants. 



Having experimented with a great variety of the import- 

 ed seeds, I here give the result of my trials in growing the 

 cabza, or rape. 



The rape is a plant largely cultivated in England, France, 

 and extensively in Flanders, where it may be considered a 

 standing crop. It is a species of cabbage, and in the coun- 



