26 THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
patents in various countries; addressed the French goy- 
ernment through Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War; 
exhibited specimens of sugar and the plants to Mr. 
Buchanan, then American Minister at London; and subse- 
quently established the culture of the imphee in Turkey, 
Egypt, the West Indies, the Brazils, the Mauritius, Aus- 
tralia, and finally in this country. Instead of one variety 
as we have of the Chinese Sugar Cane, he has discovered 
among the Kaffirs no less than sixteen distinct kinds of 
imphee, of various degrees of saccharine richness, and 
differing very widely in the time required for their ma- 
turity. 
The gift that he has thus made to our agriculture may 
be estimated when we reflect that we have almost every 
range of climate known in the world—from the torrid and 
fervent heats of the tropical zone to the most rigorous 
winters of the North; and his plants requiring in some 
instances but ninety days to run through the whole course 
of vegetation and,ripen their seeds, others of greater 
saccharine richness requiring a more lengthened season 
than is necessary for the ordinary sugar cane, he has 
thus given to the farmers of every section of the country 
the opportunity to select from out his collection of varie- 
ties some one peculiarly adapted to the latitude in which 
he resides. Sugar, by this means, supposing his anticipa- 
tions to be realized, and the experience of Governor Ham- 
mond and other southern gentlemen to be a prestige of 
what we can anticipate in future, will become no longer 
even such a luxury as it is at present, but rather will as- 
sume its proper position as a cheap, readily obtainable 
article of common use. It is well to remark in this place, 
