CHAPTER VII. 



On Plants, ^c 



THERE is scarcely a more interesting^ science 

 than that of Botany; and though the traveller 

 may not be a professed botanLst, yet he may 

 be pleased with the endless variety of beautiful 

 plants and flowers whi«h every country produ- 

 ces, or gratified with the opportunity of enrich- 

 ing our gardens and fields by the introduction of 

 new varieties. How much has our agricultu- 

 ral interest been benefitted by the inportation 

 of varieties of grass, as lucem, clover, &c. and 

 what do we not owe to him who first brought 

 hither the potatoe ? The Japan rose, and many 



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