22 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
experiments were made by him during the season of 
erowth, the results of which fully established the expecta- 
tions which he had been led to entertain, and gave him 
the basis for the work which was published by him in 
1854, under the title of “‘ Researches upon the Sorgho 
Sucré,” or Chinese Sugar Cane. 
VARIOUS EXPERIMENTERS, 
Experiments were likewise instituted by members of | 
the Imperial Acclimation Society; but by none were 
they more zealously pursued, nor more successfully 
carried on, than by the Compte de David Beauregard. 
This gentleman was so confident of its value, that he 
made strenuous efforts to increase his stock of seed, 
planted the greatest possible area of land with it, and 
succeeded so completely that it is from his third crop 
that has been derived the major portion of the immense 
amount that has been planted in the United States during 
the present year. In France we find it successively 
spreading in the provinces of: la Drdéme, les Pyrénées 
Orientales, la Haute-Marne, la Gironde, le Gers, etc., and 
everywhere exciting the greatest attention among the most 
distinguished agriculturists ; and thence it quickly finds its 
way to that prosperous, albeit lately acquired French 
province of Algeria, where, according to M. Paul 
Madinier, a company with acapital of several millions of 
francs is about to be formed to cultivate and manufacture 
the sorgho. In 1852 there was imported into France 
from Russia, by M. Masson, the seed of another sugar 
sorgho, but the plants which sprung from them were 
much inferior in every respect to those sent by M. 
