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into sugar, etc. After having fully satisfied himself on these 

 points, he returned to Europe, and planted patches in England, 

 France, and Belgium; applied for patents in various countries; 

 addressed the French government through Marshal Vaillant, Min- 

 ister of War ; exhibited specimens of sugar and the plants to Mr, 

 Buchanan, then American minister at London ; and subsequently 

 established the culture of the Imphee in Turkey, Egypt, the West 

 Indies, the Brazils, the Mauritius, Australia, and finally in this 

 country. The gift that he thus made to our agriculture may be 

 estimated when we reflect that we have almost every range of 

 climate known in the world, from the torrid and fervent heats of 

 the tropical zone to the most rigorous winters of the north ; and, 

 his plants requiring in some instances but ninety days to run 

 through the whole course of vegetation and ripen their seeds, oth- 

 ers of greater saccharine richness requiring a more lengthened 

 season than is necessary for the ordinary sugar-cane, he has thus 

 given to the farmers of every section of the country the opjDortu- 

 nity to select from out his collection of varieties some one pecul- 

 iarly adapted to the latitude in which he resides. In the year 

 1856, Mr. Wray obtained the large silver medal of the Exposition 

 Universelle at Paris for his Imphee sugar, alcohol, seeds, and 

 plants; and the French government, moreover, granted to him 

 twenty-five hundred acres of land in Algeria, to encourage in that 

 colony the establishment of this important cultivation. 



Introduction of the Sorglio into America. 



In the month of November, 185-i, D. Jay Brownj Esq., of the 

 United States Patent Office, returned to America from Europe, 

 bringing with him a quantity of the seed of the Chinese sugar- 

 cane. These seeds were distributed to various persons through- 

 out this country ; but the feeling of suspicion with which all new 

 things are more or less viewed tended to confine this experiment 

 of cultivation to a few of the more enterprising farmers, until the 

 formal report, addressed by Gen. J. II. Hammond, late Governor 

 of South Carolina, to the Secretary of the Beach Island, South 

 Carolina, Farmers' Club, awakened general attention. Upon the 

 publication of a circular, containing the experiments of Colonel 

 Peters, and the notice of the sirup which was exhibited by him 

 at the Fair of the United States Agricultural Society, the general 

 excitement upon the subject was at once considerably augmented ; 

 and the subsequent appearance of the reports to the French Min- 

 ister of War, the experience of American farmers in different parts 

 of the country, the excellent pamphlets of Mr. J. F. C. Hyde, of 

 Massachusetts, and Mr. Charles F. Stansbury, of Washington, all 

 have united in lending this increase to the all prevalent interest. 



