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On the NATURALIZATION o/PLANTS. By JOHN TEMPLE- 

 TON, A L. S. communicated by the BISHOP o/CLONFERT. 



X HE naturalization of plants is an objed of fuch importance, Read,Nov.23, 

 and a fuhje<£t that is at prefent io little underftood, that any at- " 



tempt to extend our knowledge of it, however trifling, may ftill 

 tend towards improvement, and perhaps ferve as a foundation, 

 , on which at fome future period a more perfed ftrudure may be 

 ereded. Many experiments are yet wanting, much remains to 

 be yet done, and, like other branches of knowledge; it will 

 require the united efibrts of numbers to bring it to perfedion. 



The fame Almighty hand that formed the earth,' has fcattered 

 in far diflant regions vegetables which the necefTity or luxury of 

 man excites him to endeavour to accumtihte about his home. 

 And if w: at the prefent time furvey the different nations of the 

 earth, we will find that moll of them have received great and 

 important benefits by the introdudion of foreign plants; and 

 that there is no country, however numerous its colledion of 

 plants, but may yet receive confiderable advantages by the 

 naturalization of others. 



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