228 " THE AFRICAN SUGAR CANE. 
Europe we can, perhaps, obtain only one crop from the 
land each year, yet the cheap modes of cultivation and 
the skillful manufacture which will be brought to bear 
upon it, will be quite sufficient to run the sugar planter 
off his legs. 
From Canada to New Orleans, in America, we have a 
magnificent range for the growth of the imphee; and in 
the southern states two crops a year will be obtained, in 
lieu of the one miserable crop of cane sugar now realized. 
I think that even these extremely brief remarks will 
be sufficient, for the present, to show the comparative 
value of the imphee, sugar cane, and beet root for sugar 
making. 
