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winter of 34, 35, which destroyed the oranges on Mr. 

 Middleton s plantation, left his tea plants uninjured. 

 Mr. Bonynge has seen coffee growing wild in North 

 latitude 27 30&quot;, on hills of from three to five hundred 

 feet in height, where, too, there was an abundance of 

 frost, snow, and hail. As for indigo, that substance has 

 already been grown to great advantage in this State. 



We proceed to give some interesting statistics from a 

 communication of Mr BONYNGE. 



Fromjhe Baltimore Sun. 



TEA IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The Charleston Courier notices the arrival in that city 

 of Francis Bonynge, a gentleman who has spent fourteen 

 years in the East, actively engaged in the cultivation 

 and manufacture of indigo, sugar, saltpetre, tea, and 

 coffee, and whose present object is to introduce into the 

 Southern States the culture of the tea plant, the mangoe 

 tree, date tree, coffee plants, &c., and the melons and 

 vegetables of the East Indies, and to carry out the man 

 ufacture of the tea leaf, and also of the indigo plant, and 

 to give a full and fair trial to both tea and indigo. 



Mr. Bonynge says that the soil and climate of the 

 Southern States are more suited to the cultivation of tea 

 than those even in China, and that indigo, which was, 

 by-the-bye, formerly produced in the Southern States, 

 can be grown to any extent, and that the coffee plant, in 

 all probability, would flourish there to great advantage, 

 inasmuch as the soil and undulating nature of the land 

 would be in its favor, and the cold of the latitude of 

 Charleston, is not so intense by thirteen degrees, as that of 



