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scenes familiar in early youth with a zest which privation has in- 

 creased. 



Kentucky I learn is a limestone region, and I suppose often a 

 gravelly soil. Its diversity of surface always courts a choice, and 

 the horticulturist or the farmer can accommodate his particular views,^ 

 by adapting his location with respect to soil and site to his con- 

 templated object. This, when the climate is congenial to his culti- 

 vation, is all that can be desired. So far as we can judge from a 

 close examination of the subject, Kentucky embraces all the requisites 

 the Tea Planter can covet, and if he finds it necessary to make a 

 voyage to China to obtain a cup of good Tea, it will be because he 

 does not choose to make one at home. We do not deem it necces- 

 sary to enlarge these notes by any remarks upon the Tea capacity 

 of the amphibious States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. 

 At the same time w-e fully believe it will ultimately be found that 

 some parts of those States will produce as fine Teas as any portion 

 of the United States or of China. Even the State of New-York we 

 do not consider without the pale of production, but until instruction 

 shall prevail over prejudice, and the force of interest over opposition, 

 we must suspend our anticipations and await the time when on- 

 coming generations will rejoice in the expansion of our labors, 

 although they may not choose to acknowledge them. 



From this brief and imperfect sketch of the climate, soil, features 

 of the country, and general capacity of the United States; from the 

 fact that the parallels of latitude correspond with those of the prin- 

 cipal Tea growing districts in China and India; from the evidence 

 afforded by all the experiments that have been made, and from the 

 teachings of natural history, that every species of vegetable which 

 grows in the temperate zone, in the four quarters of the globe, grows 

 in the United States, we come to the irresistible conclusion that the 

 Tea Plant will grow in the United States. Indeed, it would be 

 marvellous if that plant, indigenous to the temperate zone, should 

 be the only one which will not grow. 



If a virgin soil, pictures ;ue glades, sloping lawns, and spreading 

 vales, and northern barriers, and eastern bulwarks, and the warm 

 beamings of a southern sun are indispensable to the perfect maturity 

 of the Tea Plant, a munificent Providence, foreseeing these require- 

 ments, has entrusted them all to the keeping of the American hus- 

 bandman. God has left him nothing to ask, he is only required and 



