1839] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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Sec> 18. I3e it further enactetl, that such of the 

 stockholders as may prefer il, shall be entitled to 

 receive their respective dividends of profit?, in any 

 seeds, plants or other articles, cultivated in said 

 jrarden by said company, in procuring the same or 

 similar articles. 



Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, that it shall be 

 lawful for the said trustees, lor the time bein<^, to 

 raise by lottery, in such scheme or schemes, as 

 they may deem appropriate and advisable, a sum 

 of money, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, j 

 wliich sum of money, after the payment of ex- 

 penses of condiictiiiir said lottery, shall he wholly 

 appropriated under the direction of said trustees, 

 Isl. to the procurini": and purchasini^ a sufficient ] 

 botanical and scientific librar}', for the use of said 

 company. 2d. to the procurintj and purchasing 

 the tools, implements, and machinery necessary 

 to the conducting and carrying on the business of 

 said company. 3d. to the paying and compensa- 

 ting, to such extent as the said trustees shall 

 deem reasonable ami just, the said Henry Perrine, 

 for such exotic and other plants, as he may have 

 already procured, and shall turn over to said com- 

 pany ; and 4th. to the procuring from time to time, 

 irom foreign places, such oiher seeds and plants, 

 as are valuable, and may be rendered valuable to 

 said territory, by their cultivation and acclima- 

 tion therein. And said lottery shall be conducted 

 by such managers and olFicers as the said trustees 

 shall appoint for that purpose; provided, (hat all 

 such managers and officers shall give bond and 

 security in such sum or sums, as said trustees 

 shall direct, faithfully to conduct said lottery ; and 

 provided also, that said managers and officers shall 

 not be entitled to receive for their services, a sum, 

 which in the aggregate, will amount to more than 

 five per centum upon the nioney raised by said 

 lottery. 



Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, that this 

 charter shall last, and provisions of this act con- 

 tinue in force, for the term of twenty years, from 

 the time when said company shall be organized. 



Passed February 6th, 1838. — Approved Feb. 

 8th, 1838. 



To the friends of the enterprise. 



The principal objects of the company, arc to 

 form a nursery of supply and a model of cultiva- 

 tion of the valuable plants of the tropics. 



As, however, while Indian hostilites continue, it 

 will be impossible to pursue with safety their in- 

 tended labors on the main land, of Tropical Flo- 

 rida, the trustees will delay the organization of the 

 company, and will apply their personal resources 

 to the formation of a preparatory nursery at In- 

 dian Key, and the adjacent inlets. The super- 

 intendent, Dr. Perrine, will hence reside with his 

 family at Indian Key, until the cessation of the 

 Seminole War, where he will continue to accu- 

 mulate all the seeds, plants and other elements for 

 the permanent nursery, to be then established on 

 the southern coast of the Peninsula. During this 

 important interval, the most essential aid to these 

 preparatory labors may be immediately afforded 

 by very easy meaiis in the power of many philan- 

 thropic friends of this patriotic enterprise. 



1st. By transmitting to Indian Key, at least 

 two seeds or cuttings, &c., of every superior vari- 

 ety of every valuable vegetable, which the posses- 



sor may consider adapted to the climate and Boils 

 of Tropical Florida. 



2nd. By iransmilling a detailed list of all books 

 which the owner may deem necessary to enter 

 into a botanical and vegecullural library, espe- 

 cially adapted to the tropical climate and produc- 

 tions of South Florida. 



8rd. By transmitting a letter containing the 

 desires of the writer in respect to the purchase of 

 one or more shares of stock, in the Tropical Plant 

 Company. 



The trustees do not expect to receive any articles 

 or services without returning an ample equivalent. 

 All letters ahould be addressed to Charles Howe, 

 postmaster, at Indian Key, South Florida, the 

 financial trustee. All packages of seeds, &c., 

 not exceeding two ounces, should be directed to 

 the Patent Office at Wushingion, whence they 

 will be Ibrwartled to Indian Key. The proprietors 

 of Green houses, &c. will render themselves espe- 

 cial services by sending their respective mites du- 

 ring the ensuing six months. 



Even the druggists may contribute the valua- 

 ble seeds, occasionallj' Ibund among their tropi- 

 cal medicines. The trustees are James Webb, 

 judge of the district at Key West; Charles 

 Howe, inspector of the port at Indian Key ; and 

 Doctor II. Perrine, late American consul at Cam- 

 peachy. 



Indian Key, Tropical FL, 25th Dec, 1838. 



THE " MARL, INDICATOR, NOT THE VERONI- 

 CA ANAGALLIS," KOK "VEKONICA BECCA- 

 BUNGA." 



To Ihe Editor of llu; Farmers' Register. 



June 9th, 1839. 

 I have perused the communication in the last 

 number of the Farmers' Register, headed "The 

 iVlarl Indicator, not a new species," over the sig- 

 nature of "Clayton." When 1 handed you the 

 botanical description of the "indicator," I had not 

 an opportunity of consulting any other authority 

 than Loudon, nor have I any other now, except 

 those published by the correspondents of Clay- 

 ton, as stated in his communication. I would here 

 take the liberty of respectfullj'submiting, that, to 

 the best of my judgment, the marl indicator is not 

 identical with either of the species oi' veronica 

 described of the two correspondents of Clayton. 

 The indicator agrees in some of its characters 

 with the veronica anagaUis fas described by the 

 lady of Pennsylvania,) but difTers so far from it in 

 others, as to entitle it to be considered an entirely 

 difTerent species. From the species veronica becca- 

 bunga, the indicator differs widely; (he leaves of 

 the beccabunga are peiiolate, those of the indica- 

 tor are strictly amplexicaul, so much so as to ap- 

 pear at first glance, perfoliate. As formerly ex- 

 plained by you in the Register, the engraving of 

 the indicator, does not correctly delineate its bo- 

 tanical characters; the artist who flirnished the 

 representation from which the engraving was 

 taken, having overlooked (he amplexicaul charac- 

 ter of the leaves, representing them as petiolate; 

 the error though impoitant in a botanical point of 

 view, might easily escape the notice of an artist 

 who probably was not a botanist. In every other 

 respect (he engraving is a correct representation. 



