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uniles more advantages, or which is more worthy the 
attention of farmers. In Silesia, it has made con- 
siderable progress, and experience shows that in a 
middling, or-even a bad soil, it gives a product eight 
times more valuable than the finest crop of flax or 
hay. It requires astrong and moist soil, well labor- 
ed and manured, and may be propagated by seeds, by 
suckers, or by roots. The row husbandry is the 
most proper for it, and in the course of three years, 
the intervals between the furrows will be completely 
filled up by new and multiplied shoots. 
. Ofthe plant called New-Zealand Flax. 
.. This.is the formion tenax of botanists; the leaves 
of which, by maceration in water, yield a fibre re- 
markable for beauty and strength, We owe to M. 
Labillardiere, a series of experiments, the result of 
which shows, that the strength of flax being 11, that 
of hemp is 16 1-3, and that of formion 23 5-11. In 
the hot countries, (of which this plant is a native,) it 
is found on the sea-shore, growing sometimes in wet 
or marsby soils, and sometimes in arid sands.. M. 
Thouin has succeeded in naturalising it, in the north 
of France, which gives reason to believe that it, may 
be made to succeed in this climate. 
SECTION XI. 
Of Meadows. 
These are either natural or artificial; the former, 
containing only plants of spontaneous growth ; the 
latter, those selected, sown and cultivated by man: 
