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speculation into practice, it is evident, that in 

 most cases the attempt will be unavailing, if the 

 transition is violent ; and that we should often 

 fail in our endeavours to naturalize the inhabi- 

 tants of Bengal or Jamaica, to the climate of 

 England or that of Newfoundland. It is pro- 

 bable, however, that in the immense number 

 of untried plants, many might be found, which, 

 like the Canna Indica, would even bear a change 

 as great as that now mentioned : but to pursue 

 this system of naturalization with any great 

 hopes of success, it would be necessary that the 

 transition should be more gradual, and that the 

 transplantation should be carried from a hot cli- 

 mate, through some intermediate one, to our 

 own more ungenial shores. The very peculiari- 

 ty of the climate of Guernsey, arising chiefly 

 from the uniformity of its temperature, would 

 afford us ground to hope, that it possesses many 

 of the requisite properties, and that it would 

 form the step required in this experiment. It 

 is certain, that neither the thermometric state of 

 a given country, nor any meteorological condi- 

 tion which we have yet been able to observe, 

 are competent to explain the peculiar affection 

 of plants for particular regions of the earth. 

 The observations of Monsieur Ramond, in the 

 " Annales du Museum," which have been trans- 

 lated by Mr Salisbury, show this in a striking 

 point of view. From these we see the persever- 



