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metis plant, viz. cypripedium buibosum, which was at first seen by 

 Urn! beck in 1685, but had never been found since by aiu botanist; 

 nt)t even by the great Linnaeus, who passed this way in July, and, 

 consequently a month after it bad been in flower. This plant skulks 

 among the underwoods and firs which surround the church of Kemi. 1^ 

 modestly eludes the prying eyes of the passenger, and loves the temper- 

 ate enjoyment of the sun's rays, which can only reach it by insinuating 

 themselves between the branches of the bushes that oversha.de it. Dr- 

 Smith, president of the Linnseaii Society, has given us a coloured figure 

 of it exuemely accurate and lively, which the reader may see and ad- 

 mire, in his collection of rare plants. This is one of the rarest as well as 

 most beau tmd productions of the north ; it is indigenous in the parish 

 of Kemi. Hitherto ii has been discovered nowhere else except, as I 

 have been informed in North America."* 



Adequate and satisfactory notices of our husbandry would occupy too 

 much time. Our attention ought to be drawn to supplies of the best 

 and most powerful manures. As gypsum has no influence i>i the atmos- 

 phere of the sea, it is a great desideratum to find a substitute equally 

 efficient for the Atlantic parts of the state* Fish, peat, sea- weed, street 

 dirt, calcined pyrites, lime, ashes, and marl, have been all recommend- 

 ed : and some of them have been tried with great success. The dyk- 

 ing of salt meadows and marshes, and thereby creating excellent land 

 for tillage and grass, and the irrigation of lands, would be very advanta-. 

 geous ; and they have not been practised with us except in a few solitary 

 cases; Several plans for a rotation of crops have been proposed, but 

 have not been attended to in a manner due to their importance. The 

 failure of wood not only requires some beneficial system for replenishing 

 our forests, but for accommodating the farmer with substantial fences : 

 hedges of whitethorn or hawthorn may answer a valuable purpose ; and 

 it is believed that there are three species with ns ; two native and one 

 imported from Great Britain. Of all the cnlmiferous plants, wheat con- 

 tains the heaviest grain, and it is certainly the most important of the 

 cerealia ; it is our great staple commodity ; and the utmost care ought 

 to be taken in perfecting and protecting it against the injuries which it 

 receives from various sources. The selection of the best kind for seed 

 is a great object, there being several species ; red, white, yellow, bald, 

 bearded, summer, and winter. It is obnoxious to injury from cockle, 

 drips, sorrel, commixture of rye, smut, the weavil, the hessian fly, blast, 

 and mildew. The cause of mildew is unknown ; the blast sometimes 

 arises from the effluvia of barbary bushes, but generally from the rapid 

 growth of the grain in June. The origin of the hessian fly, and the 

 best remedy against its depredations, are subjects about which there is a 

 contrariety of opinion. (34) Particular attention ought also to be devoted 

 to the selection of the best grasses. Lucern, sainfoin, esparcet, and 



* Aeerbi'a Travels f.hrouj:ii Sweden, &c. vol. 1. p. 340. 



