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The Cultivation of the Sugar Cane. 



he see them flourishing in great beauty, and "bringing forth the fruits ia 

 their season." 



The late Mr, Dowxixg, in one of his articles, introduces a case in point. 

 Some one, in the vicinity of Newburgh, not succeeding well with his 

 vines, invited Mr. Downing to visit his grapery, and give his advice. 

 He did accordingly, and found the houses almost without ventilation, and 

 the leaves badly scorched with a continuous, unmitigated, burning sun. 

 What was wanting, was fresh air and water. The gardener, following 

 English practice, had endeavored to keep up the temperature, at the ex- 

 pense of all the other necessary agencies, and converted his vinery into 

 an oven. 



THE CULTIVATION OF THE SUGAR CANE, AND THE ilANUFACTUEE 



OF SUGAR.* 





.\,r., 



COOLIES AT THE SUGAR-CROP. 



It is not a little remarkable that an article in such general use as sugar 

 — the production of which in the present day amounts to a million and a 

 half of tons from all sources — should have been so little known amongst 

 the ancients, and so rare even up to the fifteenth century, that we read 

 of a Mrs. Pastor, the wife of a land-owner of Norfolk, of that day, writ- 

 ing to her husband in London, and begging that he will " vouchsafe to 

 buy her a pound of sugar." 



* English paper. 



