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capital to the enterprise of propagating tropical plants in tropical Florida. 
The additional documents and details which the subscriber can exhibit 
to the committee, will prove, he trusts, that his suggestions and services, 
continued to the present date, constitute multiplied claims to the favorable 
consideration of Congress and of his country; and hence the only favor that 
¢ solicits is an attentive hearing, a rigid investigation of the merits of his 
claims, and of the importance of his enterprise. 
To facilitate a clear conception of his views, he respectfully represents the 
four leading facts on which he founds his hopes of suecess for the immedi. 
ate domestication of many valuable vegetables of the tropics, and for the 
edy cultivation of other profitable plants of the tropics in southern 
1. Ma y very valuable vegetables of the tropics do spontaneously propa- 
gate themselves in the worst soils and situations, in the sun and in the shade 
propriate irrigation ‘ 
3. That an improved tropical climate extends into southern Florida, 
uman health, and still more favorable to rexsiiile 
ity and fertility of the air in that tropical 
ickn sterility of the earth, and the 
| 2 e inundated swamps of 
erior, will irrigate the arid sands and untillable rocks of the coasts, 
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itigation, that the same canals which may drain 
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