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 botanist, yet he may 
be pleased with the endless variety of beauti- 
ful plants and flowers which every country pro- 
duces, or gratified with the opportunity of en- 
riching our gardens and fields by the introduc- 
tion .of new varieties. How. much has our 
agricultural interest been benefited by the im- 
portation of varieties of grass, as lucern, clover, 
&c. and what do we not owe to him who first 
brought hither the potatoe? The Japan rose, 
and many other exotics agree so well with this 
