THE MAGAZINE 



O F 



HORTICULTURE. 



JULY, 1847. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. List of Trojncal Plants which may be acclimated in 

 the Southern States. By Dr. A. Mitchell : in a Letter to 

 Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn. Communicated by Gen. Dear- 

 born. 



Dear Sir, — Yours of the 18th was duly received, and its 

 contents, as usual, perused with pleasure. I will here re- 

 mark, that, agreeably to your wishes, and in observance of 

 the rules of punctuality, I had previously requested Dr. Hen- 

 ry Bacon, of St. Mary's, Geo., to give me a full history of the 

 mode of culture of the Arrow Root in that region. And as 

 this matter is connected exclusively with our present desires 

 to show the success in the acclimation of tropical plants, in 

 our country, it becomes necessary to show the difference in 

 the mode of culture and soils, comparably with that of the 

 West India Islands. As you well know that a competent 

 knowledge of the physical causes which affect the growth 

 and nutrition of plants points out the more obvious means 

 of insuring success, when I receive from Dr. B. the commu- 

 nication on this subject, a full detail shall be immediately en- 

 closed to you. 



It is my opinion, that all plants, however opposite the zones 

 in which they exist, can be transplanted and acclimated with 

 success, if the natural order of those plants can be specified 

 and detected as an inhabitant, indigenously growing in the 

 respective and opposite latitudes, where there are existing 

 proofs of such facts. 



We will here subjoin a list of those plants that can be cul- 

 tivated with success in Florida, and gradually introduced ; 

 some of them, I am well aware, have been cultivated to a. 



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