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lay before our readers. Mr. Frank Bonynge, now in 

 Charleston, will soon visit Savannah, with a prospectus 

 for furnishing tea, indigo, and other East India plants, 

 which are calculated to grow in Georgia and Florida. 

 Mr. Bonynge has the best possible evidences that he may 

 be relied upon. He has passed fourteen years in the 

 country where these plants grow, and is perfectly ac 

 quainted with the whole subject. His essay on the culture 

 and preparation of tea, &c., will form an important part 

 of the next Patent Office Report. 



Subscribers to this important undertaking will have a 

 claim to twelve tea plants, twelve mangoe plants, twelve 

 datetree plants, twelve leechee tree plants, twelve coffee 

 plants, four ounces of melon seed, each kind, half pound 

 indigo seed (if required). Subscriptions are $50 each. 

 Subscribers to the amount of $100 will be entitled to the 

 above, and any other plants from India which they may 

 desire. $25 will procure one half of the above quantity 

 of plants. 



We are persuaded that this enterprize of Mr. Bonynge 

 is destined to be a source of vast profit to the Southern 

 States, through the agency of slave labor. It only 

 remains for a few gentlemen in Georgia and Florida, by 

 their subscriptions, to do an immense probable benefit to 

 their respective States. We commend this project to 

 our planters in serious earnestness, and we recommend 

 Mr. Bonynge to the friendly reception of our fellow citi 

 zens, when he shall arrive here. That tea can be grown 

 successfully in Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, is almost 

 certain, because the experiment has been pretty fairly 

 tried. The thermometer at Shanghai indicates a cold 

 more severe by 13 than in Charleston, S. C. The cold 

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