CHAPTER VII. 



On Plants, fyc. 



THERE is scarcely a more interesting science 

 than that of Botany ; and though the traveller 

 may not be a professed botanist, yet he may 

 be pleased with the endless variety of beauti- 

 ful plants and flowers which every country pro- 

 duces, or gratified with the opportunity of en- 

 riching our gardens and fields by the introduc- 

 tion of new varieties. How much has our 

 agricultural interest been benefited by the im- 

 portation of varieties of grass, as lucern, clover, 

 &c. and what do we not owe to him who first 

 brought hither the potatoe? The Japan rose, 

 and many other exotics agree so well with this 



