:86 THE CHINESE SUGAR-CANE. 



and very stout, the best specimens I have ever 

 seen. It ripened its seed well. 



A correspondent of the Boston Atlas commu- 

 nicates the following, concerning an experiment 

 made in this state with this plant : ' ' The seeds 

 were planted on the 14th of last June, in the 

 same manner as corn is usually planted. The 

 canes grew to the height of ten feet, and spin- 

 dled like broom-corn, but did not ripen any seed. 

 About the 10th of October, the crop of about 

 forty canes was harvested. The juice was ex- 

 pressed by means of a sugar-mill, such as used 

 by grocers for crushing sugar. The forty canes 

 yielded about two pints and a half, which was 

 boiled down to syrup." 



From the New Eiigland Farmer we clip the 

 following, written by J. J. H. Gregory, of Mar- 

 blehead, Mass. : "About the middle of last June 

 I received a small package of the seed of the 

 Chinese Sugar-cane. On the 18th of the same 

 month I planted a few seed for experiment, from 

 which one hill of seven plants was reserved. 

 These thrived well, and at the time of the first 

 heavy frost had attained a growth of about ten 

 feet, with the seed at the tops apparently full- 

 sized, but, as was anticipated from the shortness 

 of the growing season, not well filled, and scarcely 



