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mer will irrigate ia Thier, an ord ‘ +9 pe SE proportion of mois- 
ture for both, ‘The memorialist founds his hopes of success for the gradual 
acclimation of many profitable plants of the tropics throughout at least all 
our southern and southwestern States, on, Ist, the general history of ‘all 
no ay plants whose ,cultivation has been gradually extended towards the 
w: articular history of our actually great staples of the — 
an a s outhwest, : tropical rice, tobacco, cotton, and sugar; and, 3d, t 
fact that kindind aes of many profitable plants which “will be still coe 
important objects of i A em are indigenous to our worst soils between 
the Potomac and the Mississippi, viz: of Agave and Yucca. In — tion 
to the extension of a peculiarly favorable climate of the tropics into 
ern Florida, your committee believes that the memorialist has demenieien 
its existence by the meteorological tables annexed to this report. In rela- 
tion to the immediate propagation of tropical plants in tropical Florida, on 
the most arid, the most humid, and hitherto most worthless soils, your com- 
mittee believes that the memorialist has well shown its great probability by 
the interesting facts and statements made and collected by him, and which 
are annexed to this report. And i in relation to the gradual goer at 
east the fibrous-leaved plants, itv 
for flax an mp, your committee ns eh with the temortaltst 3 i “his 
cowed it is ey os cca that this section of the Territory is un- 
inhabitab ble by the man, and should, therefore, be abandoned to the 
save apie ‘from the ih Se States. At all events, 
it is conceded that many millions of acre capable 
article now cultivated in the United States, and mv i 
useless for many Braet without some experiment such as Dr. Perrine pro- 
poses. Hence, w hen the Indians shall be expelled from the pestilential 
swamps, and impenetrable morasses of the interior, all, ultimately 
be eeerel by a dense ‘gong of small cultivators ‘and of fi famil Patani 
Florida will thus form a well garisoned bulwark 
invasion in every shape and rigails Even the statistics of Cuba 
demonstrate that this celebrated island owes its prosperity and its safety 
- much more to its numerous small cildvaioe of fruits and vegetables than 
“as ey ra Pal Vlouda tet pit oe coffee ; and hence it Fong be considered 
‘tun its southern surface 
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