16 THE CHINESE SUGAR-CANE. 



all, both poor as well as rich, may enjoy the ben- 

 efit of them. 



Most of us haTe hitherto despaired of finding 

 such a sugar-yielding plant that could be grown 

 in a northern climate. Perhaps it is not yet 

 found ; but we may hope, and not without strong 

 reasons, that the Chinese sugar-cane is just the 

 article calculated to supply the want. So that we 

 think the day is not far distant when sugar and 

 syrup or molasses enough will be produced, even 

 in the New England States, to supply our wants, 

 and thus relieve our country of the heavy tax it 

 has paid foreign countries for this very useful 

 and necessary article. 



Having shown to some extent the value of the 

 sugar crop, the increasing demand for sugars and 

 molasses, the reasons why we cannot depend upon 

 the present sugar-growing countries for a supply 

 at fair prices, the difficulties they have to overcome 

 in its cultivation, and, lastly, the necessity there 

 seems to be of procuring some new plant that Avill 

 grow everywhere, and produce the rich saccharine 

 matter we so much desire, I am prepared to 

 introduce to the attention of the agriculturists of 

 our country the neiv Chinese Sugar -Cane, of 

 which we shall give a short history, and then 

 detail the results that have followed the exper- 



