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infinite patience before it is certain whether the 

 plant is worth cultivating or not. 



The subject is perhaps more systematically 

 worked at in the United States than elsewhere, 

 because there is such a vast territory still to be 

 brought into cultivation, and also because, as we 



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FIG. 14. Cutting Berseem or Egyptian Clover in Egypt. This is 

 one of the plants which have helped to make Egypt prosperous. 



have seen, relatively so few cultivated plants existed 

 in the country when the Europeans first went there. 

 But one must not suppose that America is the only 

 country where this happens. All countries which 

 are only partially developed must in the same way 

 toil to find suitable plants. When we read of the 

 rapid rise in the prosperity of Egypt, of the 

 Argentine, and so on, we must not forget that at 



