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(lucetl only half a crop paid him, and 

 he could afford to fatten cattle with ex- 

 pensive dainties. Now this succeeded 

 so well that he looked no further. Every 

 other domestic advantage was lost sight 

 of, and fruit trees in particular, which I 

 think is sufficiently proved by the fore- 

 going remarks. 



Now the agriculture of France has 

 been improved from views of a different 

 nature, namely, the necessities of the na- 

 tion, and hence every department has 

 been regularly encouraged and assisted, 

 and her fruit trees in general, will be 

 found to have had the proper treatment 

 they required, and now that the peace 

 has given her the opportunity of sending 

 some of her produce over, she has, in more 

 than one instance, proved to us, tliat al- 

 though trade is a valuable blessing to any 

 country, that does for the time being en- 

 jov it; yet agriculture .is the only cer- 

 tain wealth of a nation, and the sheet- 

 anchor of its people. 



Time has been when it might not 

 have been prudent to have made such 



