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more vigor (a result already noticeable), and will be 
enabled to withstand a more rigorous climate than at 
present; and new varieties will, no doubt, be produced 
which may be grown with profit in districts from which all 
are now excluded. At present more flexibility of consti- 
tution seems to be possessed by the Chinese cane than the 
imphees. Some of the latter are analogous to those 
northern varieties of the maize of which the King Philip 
corn is a representative. They come to maturity within 
a comparatively brief period, and, although of less gen- 
erous growth and proportionally less productive, are 
not inferior to the best southern varieties in the quality of 
their products. They are adapted to the briefer summer 
of more northern latitudes; and the preference which some 
planters in the Northwestern States have accorded to them 
is to be ascribed to the fact that they ripen there and ma- 
ture their juices, while other varieties do not. The Chinese 
cane, however, and some of the imphees likewise, plants 
of a more luxuriant and permanently sub-tropical type, 
bear a strong analogy to those stately races of the maize 
which attain to such unequaled perfection in the middle 
belt of the United States. Within that region (elsewhere 
more fully defined)* are now grown varieties of cane which, 
if unhybridized, we may expect to attain to the highest 
development of which the species is capable. In more 
northern localities, early maturing imphees, such as the 
Ne-a-za-na, QOom-see-a-na (misnamed Otaheitan), and 
K-en-gha are to be preferred. 
It is worthy of note that the qualities of the future plant 
will depend in a great degree not only upon the purity, 
but also upon the proper development of the seed. The 
largest, heaviest, and best formed seeds uniformly produce 
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