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of whicli every lover of nature drinks, can be had in its freshness and 

 purity, and that too at natures living fountain ; Attempt to carry it 

 away in the clay pitchers of human description, it loses all its spirit 

 becomes insipid, and acquires from the clay and earthy taste. Would 

 you enjoy the beauties of spring take advantage of the morning, 

 when the beams of the newly risen sun first gilds the hill tops, and 

 when the birds sing their matin songs, when earth and air are in all 

 their freshness, and all nature mingles in one common morning hymn 

 of gratitude and praise. Such scenes are calculated to exhilarate 

 both mind and body. 



THE NEW SUGAE CANE. 



Mr. Hedges, of our city, has shown us samples of sugar made 

 from the " Sorgho," which, in flavor and appearance, is equal to 

 the Brazil sugar. This is the first reliable and satisfactory evidence 

 of the success of the Chinese cane as a sugar crop. This was made 

 by Mr. Leonard Wrat, Esq., of England, who has devoted many 

 years to the sugar business in various parts of the Indies, as well as 

 France, Algeria and South Africa ; and to his efi"orts are we indebted 

 for the process for granulating the new species of cane syrup. Mr. 

 Wray has just arrived in this country, at the solicitation of some 

 influential men of the South, who were aware of his great skill and 

 success in the sugar manufacturing. He brings with him the seed 

 of several species of the " Imphees," found by him in Caff'raria, 

 which he says are more precocious and better suited to our northern 

 latitudes than the Chinese variety, although he speaks in high terms 

 of the latter. 



Mr. Hedges has also a sample of alcohol, made from the fer- 

 mented juice of the cane, of a most superior quality. He has, also, 

 some of the simple juice, considerably resembling the white wines 

 of the Rhine. Such of our citizens as have interest in these mat- 

 ters, will do well to call on Mr. Hedges, at the office of Hedges & 

 Free, corner of Main and Water Streets. 



The facts furnished by Mr. Hedges, a notice of which we clip 

 from the Commercial, were not in the possession of the Committee 

 of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, at the time of making their 

 recent report adverse to the " Sorgho," as a sugar plant. This 



