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natural places for its growth. The seeds are sown in the 

 latter part of Autumn. 



As this tree is grown on lands which are otherwise toral- 

 ly unproductive, it would most probably be found a valuable 

 addition to the catalogue ot plants, proper to be cultivated 

 in this Country. 



WATER-LILLY, OF CHINA (JVelumbium.) This plant 

 is called Lien-wha, by the Chinese, and its root is said to 

 be the most valuable of any known, where suitable grounds 

 can be had for its culture. It is only proper to be grown 

 in marshes. In such grounds, it grows to the length of 

 fiiteen feet, and of the thickness ot a Man's arm. The 

 outside is white, and the inside yellow. It is an excelent 

 vegetable tor the table. The Chinese pretend that it yields 

 the liquor of immortality. 



It is said not to grow successfully in Europe; but that 

 part ot the world is dissimilar in climate to China. The 

 climate ot this Country is similar to that of the latter Coun- 

 try, though perhaps a little colder in the same degrees of 

 latitude. It might be ot essential service to this Country to 

 have the seeds of the plant brought thence, to be sown as 

 well in our lands which arc naturally marshy, as in those 

 which might be rendered so by flooding; as, what might 

 not be needed of the root, for culinary purposes, would be 

 useful for feeding and fating cattle. The plant is readily 

 cultivated in China, by merely sowing the seeds in grounds 

 suitable to its growih. 



WEEDS. Generally speaking, most of those which are 

 difficult to extirpate, by common culture, will be found to 

 yield to constant yearly crops of such plants as grow very 

 high and very" closely. For this purpose, several crops of 

 hemp in succession would no doubt be found sufficient to 

 eradicate almost any weed. The tall oatsgrass, and some 

 other grasses which grow very high and thick, would also 

 be found very useful for this purpose. 

 Sec GRASSES. 



Crops of carrots and other roots, which require close 

 weeding, would also be found excelent in eradicating some 

 weeds. It is also believed, that planting grounds with po- 

 tatoes, after the Irish method, will be found sufficient to 

 smother almost every kind ot weed. 

 See POTATOE. 



Something shall now be separately said of some of those 

 weeds which are most formidable to the Farmer. 



The Canada thistle (Cnicus Arvensis} flourishes in close 

 and stiff soils: In those which are dry and gravelly, or 

 sandy, it does not prevail. It is extremely injurious in all 



