Food. %n 



to exhibit the delightful picture of theory and practice going hand 

 in hand. Now, this is as it should be ; and if both parties con- 

 tinue to pursue this course, they vvili not only meet at last, but, 

 prejudices and antipathies will gradually give way on both sides, 

 and it will eventually be seen that the great object of both parties 

 is the same^ though each takes different means to obtain it. But, 

 though every friend to his country, and every well-wisher to its 

 prosperity, roust hail the present auspicious aspect of things, as an 

 omen of much future National good ; yet, we must recollect that all 

 great changes (more especially those that take place in the agricul- 

 ture of a country, and the objects connected with it) are effected 

 slowly, and in a very gradual way; and, therefore, it cannot be 

 amiss for every man who sees the thing in the light Ihave placed it, 

 to labour sedulously in the attempt to approach the divided, and, 

 apparently, hostile parties ; to endeavour to detach partizans from 

 both sides, and to open communications of such a kind, and in such 

 a spirit, as shall tend to bring about a mutual good understanding 

 between them. And if I might venture to point out an indivi- 

 dual, who seems to me peculiarly calculated to act in tlie capacity 

 of an able and powerful mediator between the parties, and who pos- 

 sesses, at once, both the ability and inclination to reconcile existing 

 differences, I should be enclined to turn my eye to the Rev. 

 Dr. Richardson, who has within these few j^ears favoured the public 

 with several valuable dissertations, on the culture of the fiorin 

 grass. 



The zeal, the indefatigable labour, the enlarged information of this 

 practical Philosopher, added to the perseverance, with which he has 

 persisted, in maintaining the value of his important discoverj' 



