162 Remarks on the Culture of Exotic Vegetables. 



such as may have failed, and also of other kinds ; by other, and 

 Ave may hope, more efficient methods. 



The limits to which it is necessary to confine this paper, will not 

 admit of full directions being given for the rearing of the several 

 plants recommended for trial ; volumes might be written upon so 

 interesting a subject, without exhausting or fully elucidating the 

 various methods in common practice, or publishing those not 

 generally known. Those persons, therefore, who may be induced 

 to make experiments, must rely upon their own judgment in. 

 many respects, particularly so far as regards the nature of their 

 lands, and the means of irrigating them when necessary, which are 

 within their power. I would strongly recommend the keeping of 

 a Journal, in which the soil and kind of plants, as well as the dates 

 of planting, should be entered, leaving blank columns for future 

 remarks and observations. These notes will serve to refresh the 

 memory, and may be more relied on than many published works, 

 as beiug the result of actual experience. 



The want of a public establishment, where experiments on 

 European practice might be made, in the propagation and 

 culture of various useful productions, is severely felt on more 

 accounts than one. Successful results in such an establishment, 

 would be a stimulus to the Colonists at large, and would effec- 

 tually prevent any excuses being made in relation to improve- 

 ments, which must eventually contribute to their own benefit and 

 emolument. 



" Let not thy servile care 

 Too close a copy of our fathers bear; 

 Give new resources to the rustic art, 

 Try other schemes, and other views impart." 



ULEX kurop/eus. Furze, Gorse, Whin. Hey brem. A 

 shrub of the Diadelphia Decandria Class of Linnaeus, and Natural 

 Order, Leguminosae. 



This plant will thrive in rocky, gravelly, or sandy soil, and 

 is found to improve more in dry than in moist situations. It 

 may be sown as a protection to rear trees under, such as oak, 

 fir, &c. ; and when these arrive at a sufficient hardihood to pro- 

 tect themselves, they destroy by their shade their first protector. 

 On the secondary hills, plains, &c. the seeds of this shrub may be 

 sown with advantage, and the roots, if even washed by the ocean, 

 receive no injury therefrom. It may be grown to any extent, for 

 the feeding of horses, kine, and sheep ; for the two former, it is 

 necessary to cut and bruize the young shoots, as the spines are 

 too strong for the mouths of cattle. Sheep and goats browse 

 upon it, without injury to themselves; and, like other animals, 

 grow quickly fat thereon. It forms an excellent hedge, where it 

 is kept clipped, and is a good fuel for ovens, kilns, &c. 



This plant has been many years in the Colony, but it still 

 remains iu a neglected state. 



