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subject of acclimating plants, and 

 shews that plants, which one cen- 

 tury since were treated as tender 

 exotics in England, now openly 

 brave their winter frosts. 



On the whole, as a practical rule, 

 we should say that Mr. Cooper's i? 

 the best general one ; and that is 

 to select with great care, the besi 

 part of your own seeds and root!: 

 for future cuUivation. This rule is 

 within the power of every fanner to 

 apply — but in an extended scale it 

 is not practicable for farmers gen- 

 erally to change their seeds either 

 annually, or even every few years. 

 This must be left to speculative 

 and more opulent cultivators, and 

 when they have succeeded after 

 several years trial, the effects of 

 their eflforts will be felt and enjoy- 

 ed throughout the whole country. 

 If they fail, the loss is their own, 

 and they are able to sustain it. — 

 We would, however, observe, from 

 the result of 20 year's experience, 

 that it is highly inexpedient to 

 transplant seeds or plants from a 

 high northern to a southern cli- 

 mate, and the reverse. The pota 

 toes of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 and even of Nova-Scotia, do not 

 succeed generally with us. Some 

 exceptions may be made to the 

 rule, but they are rare. The po- 

 latoe, taken from the south, appears 

 to do better transplanted to the 

 north. The River Plate, or long 

 potatoe, has done admirably well, 

 though the fact that it originally 

 came from South America is by no 

 means settled on good evidence. 

 This fact, if it be settled, which 

 we believe it to be, that the po- 

 tatoe is not improved by trans- 



plantation from a colder and more 

 moist climate to a more southern 

 and drier one, and on the other 

 hand is improved by transplanta- 

 tion from a southern one to a more 

 northern climate, may be account- 

 ed for from the fact, that its natural 

 indigenous location, the one in 

 which it was first found, and has 

 recently been discovered in a na- 

 tural state, is the elevated lands of 

 South America, at the foot of their 

 highest mountains, and but little 

 below the region of perpetual 

 snows. It is certain that the pota- 

 toe loves moisture, and is rapidly 

 checked by extreme heat and 

 drought. 



On the other hand the Indian 

 corn will not bear transplantation 

 from a southern to a northern cli- 

 mate. It is familiar to us all, that 

 the flat corn of Carolina, though it 

 will grow to a great size with us, 

 will never ripen its seed, but with 

 great precaution, and then but im- 

 perfectly. The flint corn of Cuba 

 will not even form its ears in our 

 climate. The same remark ap- 

 plies to wheat. It has been prov- 

 ed by experiments so numerous as 

 to put the question at rest, that 

 wheat from southern climates, 

 though it will grow vigorously at 

 first, will not come to perfection. 

 The only exception we have yet 

 heard of is that of the wheat of 

 Leghorn used by the Italians in 

 the manufacture of straw bonnets. 

 This has succeeded in one or two 

 instances, but these are not suffi- 

 cient to enable us to pronounce it 

 to be an exception from a general 

 rule. 

 It is confidently affirmed that flax- 



