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gence, and morality of mankind, than all the associations and suggestions 
of modern piste to improve the condition ofthe Dares est members of 
human-society. But, selecting only arte spec - Lento, ost valuable for 
the production of foliaceo us fibres alone, he continues ist in the belief, 
that the cultivation of these i autenedonerd Pano cama: will create. still 
Sie prosperity in the agriculture of our southern States, and_pro- 
ce still greater revolutions in the manufactiires — commerce of the 
world, than have ever yet been effected by the culture of our fibrous-pod- 
ded annual cotton. : 
Pees psn 9. Were there, however, no other motives for an acclimating 
at tropical Piovagi than the domestication of such species and va 
rigties ‘of rice, tobace 0, and cotton as are or pine valuable in peculiar 
soils, and of such as “all flourish in sites and seasons where and when 
the actual species and varieties would perish, cia an > Seeeilishieant should 
be alg on that account alone. Understanding that. the actual 
Secretary of State has a variety of the nankeen-colored cotton:in cultiva-_ . 
tion on his plantation, the subscriber now forwards a sample of another 
spontaneous variety, which is cultivated in Tobasco, with the hope that its 
relative value may be fairly tried, in all natural varieties of our climates and. 
soils. By ascertaining the precise natural variety of native soil in. which 
any natural variety of exotic plants will become, not merely acclimated, 
Kg absolutely naturalized, we ascertain the sections of our surface where 
_ ma most profitably iodine and where, therefore, it should be 
pian cultivated by the unforced industry of our happy country: He also 
transmits a sample of the “ Algodon de a rthe re vine cot- 
ton of the stony eminences 3 Yucatan, which may be propagated like 
hops or beans, and may therefore become valuable for family use, where 
lands are scarce or poor. He is credibly informed that, on the eastern de- 
clivity of the Mexican cordillers, in a department of the State of Vera 
Cruz, there are some plants of one species of gosspium, whose. capsular 
fibres are permanently red; but the subscriber has not yet been able to 
obtain a single seed. It t may be thought, in other countries, that the reten- 
tion of this rose-colored cotton by the natives, for domestic use, to avoid 
the trouble and expense of dying, would account for his inability to ob- 
he seeds ; but the fact is, that a foreigner can very-seldom obtain any 
peculiar plant of Mexico, without a personal voyage to the place of its aoe 
and a clandestine conveyance to the vessel in which it may be 
perso’ : 
eigners, in the naliecsian of gro it has generally been too late discove: 
that their power of germination was destro royed by boiling, of which a notable 
Semeienre occurred in enncane of the logwood tree, carried tyesae Yucatan 
labor. to. 2 aE rough h Mexi rating e, that aid in the collection of - 
plants: and facts, which could have ch gratis much more profitably obtained by 
