18 Naturalization of Plants^ ^c, 



I am sensible the foregoing will meet with great .op- 

 position and contradiction, but as an experiment is safe 

 and easy, I hope it will induce persons of more leisure, 

 ability, and observation than myself, to make trial, as 

 a mean of improving the agriculture of our country. 



Such is the sincere wish of thy friend, 



Joseph CoorER. 



chaser and to this error, the gardener contended the degene- 

 racy of the true seed which he had sold, was owing. But he 

 lost his cause in consequence of the prevailing ignorance of 

 the sexual doctrine of plants : posterity however has rescued 

 his memory from the imputation of a cheat. The fact quoted 

 by Mr. William Young in page 53, may be adduced as ano- 

 ther argument in favour of the propriety of attending to the 

 caution of Mr. Cooper. 



This fact, and the consequences of it, shew that lawyers 

 should attend to agricultural and horticultural knowledge, as 

 well as to mere professional acquirements. In an agricultu- 

 ral countr}^, it is peculiarly incumbent on them : both for the 

 purposes of justice, and personal advantage to themselves. 



