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but artificial rivers, and attract to them a dense population. 

 Good roads come in competition next, after rivers, either natu- 

 ral or artificial, in attraction. We are multiplying them, and 

 thereby, increasing our numbers, our wealth, and our moral 

 power. 



But we return to travel in our narrow path, out of which, 

 we have taken two or three steps. From the wild woods, we 

 come back to continue our botanical journey. We next treat 

 of such plants as have been long cultivated. This we do un- 

 der the head of 



NATURALIZED PLANTS. 



The cultivation of the yellow leafed tobacco has been 

 attended with signal success, in our hilly region. This 

 kind of tobacco, sells higher than any other, in several 

 European countries, such as Holland and Germany. It 

 has sold even in Ohio, sometimes as high as ten dollars 

 a hundred, in the leaf. It is cured in a particular man- 

 ner, and grows only on rather a thin soil, such as exists in our 

 hilly region. It grows on new lands, just cleared of their 

 woods. A crop of wheat does well on the ground where the 

 tobacco had grown in the preceding season. Instances like 

 the following have often been known. With one hundred dol- 

 lars, a farmer has purchased eighty acres of hilly land, in the 

 woods, which he, and his family, cleared off, or deadened what 

 timber he and they did not clear off. He then planted the 

 whole in yellow leaf tobacco, the first year, except such land 

 as he reserved, for corn and vegetables. He erected his hous- 

 es of logs, in which he dried his tobacco, by the aid of fire. In 

 the winter following, he sold tobacco enough to enable him to 

 purchase six hundred and forty acres of the most fertile land, 

 in some other part of the state. In the meantime, he had a 

 crop of wheat coming forward on the same land where the to- 

 bacco had grown. The latter crop, which when arrived at 

 maturity, he sold for money enough to enable him to remove to 

 his large farm, and to go forward with his improvements there. 

 In a few years he became a Avealthy and independent farmer. 



