ORIGIN AND HISTORY. 25 
two different species, the introducer of each plant may be 
duly credited without in the least depriving the other of 
appropriate honor. If indeed we base our gratitude 
upon the amount of research and labor given by the indi- 
vidual previous to the introduction of the plants, we cer- 
tainly must agree that Mr. Wray is entitled to greater 
thanks at the hands of the agricultural world than the 
Count de Montigny, who took no great labor to dis- 
cover the properties of the sorgho, but merely sent 
the seed, as he sent others, to be experimented upon in 
France. 
MR. LEONARD WRAY. 
Mr. Wray is widely known to the sugar planters of the 
world, from his authorship of the ‘Sugar Planters’ Com- 
panion,” published in Calcutta in 1848, and the “ Practi- 
cal Sugar Planter,” published in London in 1848, and 
republished in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. 
In 1850, he left the East Indies for the Cape of Good 
Hope, whence he went to Kaffirland, and found the 
Zulu Kaffirs cultivating the imphee around their huts, 
not for the purpose of manufacturing crystallized sugar 
or obtaining any other of its products with a commercial 
view, but merely for the purpose of chewing and sucking 
the stalks. He quickly saw of what value such plants 
were likely to become to Hurope and America, and ap- 
plied himself to their study, their culture, and manufac- 
ture into sugar, ete. After having fully satisfied himself 
on these points, he returned to Europe, and planted 
patches in England, France, and Belgium; applied for 
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