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V** The grain you sent me in 1811, as new FrencJi 

 " rije^ I have growing freely on my ground ; and proves 

 " Tangier wheat; as it was deemed, the last spring, 

 " by Sir John Sinclair , and others of the Board of 

 *' Agriculture. The same kind was brought to me by 

 *' a gentleman from the Mediterranean, this spring."* 



So that we now know, exactly, what it is ; — and the 

 climate in which it prospers. We can, therefore, ac- 

 commodate our culture accordingly. Our extensive 

 national territory, in one or the other of its parts, par- 

 takes in the advantages of all climates. I have long 

 suspected, that this grain would be, finally, discovered 

 to be one most suitable to a temperate region. Wheat 

 may, nevertheless, be indigenated in any country ; it 

 being the grain of all climates. 



MANGEL- WURTZEL. 



On the subject of this root^ I had corresponded with 

 Mr. Barclay ; and had sent to him a copy of my com- 

 munication, which appears in this volume. He writes, 

 in the letter before cited, as follows. — 



'* My experiment of the Mangel- TFurtz el, goes on 

 " prosperously ; and, I hope, next year, that the peru- 

 '' sal of your paper, (which, in my last parcell, I sent 



* The ghost of the " dead French soldier" [see page 26] need 

 not, now, come from the grave to tell us where it grows. Most 

 probably it is the grain of regions bordering on the Mcdittrraneany 

 other than Tangier, Tliese, the soldier " had traversed in his cam- 

 paigns." 



