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tropical aes will cause a great revolution in the sotteativs of the 
southern States, which will not only effectually relieve their present embar- 
assments, but will also 0 give a productive value to their ruined fields and 
the south, and a an etna to the manufacturers of the north, which 
wilt supply many wants of our merchants’ vessels, our navy, and our ou 
zens in general ; fart our coasting trade, and our foreign commerce 
and thus contribute ‘greatly to the prosperity and perpetuity of the Union.® 
As the precited Hon. J. M. Peon has forwarded to the subscriber a selected 
specimen of the best fibres of the Maguey of upland Mexico, the subscriber 
now transmits it, with an unselected sample of the ordinary fibres of the 
Henequen of lowland Yucatan, for the attentive comparison of the dpart- 
ment; adverting that the Maguey fibres are extracted from leaves previously 
= an, ground by tedious and troublesome operations ; while the 
Henequen fibres are obtained from fresh ec by simple scraping only ; 
d to di monstrate the facility of the latter process, with the abundance of 
the foliaceous fibres, he will also send some fresh leaves of Yashqui and 
Sacqui, each having two-thirds of their length thus freed from the pulpy 
parenchyma, although the eagle ne succulent extremities will doubtless 
mould on their way to to Washington. The subscriber now entertains the 
réipedtfal hope that the arguments and facts presented by his numerous 
fermen nications in favor of the ee c of the fibrous: ber henequens 
n pa agent and of fibrous-leaved plants in general, throughout the poorest 
district of Florida and our santa. States, w ill be consi ide orange 
inhipbrtaint to merit that both the Executive and Legislative Departments 
Government should immediately extend effec tive encouragement to he 
production of foliaceous fibres in the United States. As the last ei 
ing tariff has even cut off the incidental encouragement which a revenue 
duty would afford to the cultivation of exotic plants, the subscriber eointcl 
doubt that the Executive Department alone will now effectually promote 
the objects of oe unrevoked ‘Treasury circular of the 6th September, 1827, 
so far, at least, as to instruct our naval vessels to carry hereafter, direct to 
tropical Floridw, all such tropical plants as have heretofore perished in the 
jae Aine ports to which they were conveyed. As the services and sug- 
of the subscriber, in behalf of the dolkestientioh of tropical plants, 
Soul enitle him to small favor, though great distinction, of a special act 
thirty-six sections of land i n tropical Florida, to ensure ae 
the rifght and safety of location for hist associates, in 
tion of productive plants, he is respectfully ace to tplicte that even 
nt of nese itself may promote the modification and 
the Departme passage 
of bill 555, a 26th of April, 1832, during the actual short session of Con- 
ss. As Dr. Ramon de la Sagra, professor of the posnias garden, and 
irector of the pattern plantation, near Havana, continues to promise all 
‘the useful plants under his care, to promote the “ aniston) proyecto” of the 
subscriber, an acclimating nursery in tropical Florida may be immediately 
established, with all the frnits of many years, much money, and more trouble 
destined by uh: pon to fill the acclimating nurseries of Spain alone. 
As E. Rosseau, Esq., secretary of the Agricult ural Society ‘of New Orleans, 
has written o Pie hasisbe: that his various “lengthy and most interest- 
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