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1027 



;< A botanical garden is not only one of the 

 most useful and most important of public 

 improvements, but it also comprises within a 

 small compass the history of the vegetable 

 speciesof ourowncountry; and by the introduc- 

 tion of exotics, makes us acquainted with the 

 plants of the most distant parts of the earth." 

 , New York State Agricultural Society, 1794 



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