CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER I. 
ORIGIN AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
The Cane in China—Accounts of Jesuit Missionaries—Extracts from Ja. 
panese Works—Its Exhibition at the Great Fair at Moscow—lIntro- 
duction into Europe—The appearance of Mr. Wray’s Imphee— 
Precarious position of the Sorgho—To whom is most Honor due—Sale 
of Eight Hundred Seeds to Vilmorin, Andrieux, & Co.—Various Ex- 
periments—Attempts of Pietro Arduino, inl 786—Mr. Leonard Wray 
—Introduction of the Sorgho into America—Sugar made by Professor 
Avequin, of Louisiana—How Patent Office Seeds should be Wed, 
CHAPTER II. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT. 
The Confusion among Agricultural Writers—Appearance of the Plant — 
Height, &c.—Comparative Growth of the Sorgho and other similar 
Plants—Weight of the Stalk—Progressive Growth—Pulling out the 
Tufts —Ripening—Prostration by Wind Storms. 32-45 
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