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perseverance by General Bernard, that nine years ago, his estate alone 
contained more than thirty thousand maturing vines, estimated to yield four 
or five killogrames each, of pepper, for exportation. In Flor ida, Ade species 
is indigenous, and therefore offers more hopes for acclimating Me brethren. 
The black pepper vines may be economically trained on fru trees, as 
are the grape vines in Italian orchards; and thus the fruit (ohpae goodness 
depends entirely on the natural properties of the soil) may be obtained yee 
_ cheaper than in the native or naturalized countries of this vine, wheze 
sustained by withered poles or worthless trees. The betel pepper vine ee 
also be propagated in tropical Florida, because “such is the consumption 
of the betel in the east, that it occasions Fae see o. commerce nearl 
extensive as that of tobacco in the w Ste”, trys bec our superior people, 
under our superior institutions, can culty at the highest rate of labor, any 
product much cheaper than the inferior seen under the misgovernment 
of the tropics, at the lowest rate of HaDor, even should it hot exceed three 
cenisaday. The same remar - willa 
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quantity and quality obtaine y the fabcontiog’ 6 e of uncivilized 
hands. ‘The medicinal aloes will thrive in pe most dry poe barren soils, 
“may be planted at any season of the year, even in the driest, as they will 
live on the surface of the earth for many we seks without a drop of f rain ;’ 
are set out like youn talib ges in rows of one foot apart, at five or six 
inches from each other; require no other trouble than weeding only until 
their own leaves become lar arge enough to shade the ground; may be cut the 
first anh and will continue productive from ten to fifteen years in succession. 
he same observations are applicable to the propagation of the hardy 
kindred plants, the henequen Agaves of Yucatan ; the pulque Agaves o 
results of their improving cultivation by civilized aeeUste with the 
db cultu 
of 
Mexico, and the pine-apple bromelia, of Peru ; with the exception that the 
last are placed about three feet apart, and do not generally ee Hiei 
1e yea 
Omi ing further cancel to plants cultivated in the sun, the subscriber 
al ie attention of the department to some brief notices of valuable 
veesabies which are propagated in the shade. The sudorific roots, called 
rsapa' 
rilla, of a prickly climber, which is a brother of our sweet-briar ; the 
pares Toots, called jalap, of a creeping vine, which is a half-brother of our 
sweet potatoe; the emetic root, called ipecacuanha, of a small shrub which 
is a relation of common coffee ; and the tonic ube called Peruvian or 
enone, of a large tree, which ‘belongs to the sa me faruily all Gagcich i in 
; ‘ pic ’ ‘ ida. paras 
odorous pods called We vanilla bean, in the forests of Vera Cr ruz, is not 
entitled 
to Be name of agriculture, as it is effected simply by tying slips to 
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