Under these diseouraging eireumstances, a prudent 
adherence to our immediate interest would perhaps 
have inclined us to submit to the power of example 
and fashion, and thus to have relinquished this (cer- 
tainly ill paid) branch of eultivation for ever. But it 
always was a favourite branch with us, and we felt 
disposed to make many sacrifices, rather than aban- 
don it. We have even thought that as others 
neglected it, so much the more was it ineumbent 
upon us to be strenuous in its support. Every col- 
lection which was dispersed was thus made, by nu- 
merous purchases, to increase our own, and we no 
sooner perceived the advantages of steam than we pre- 
pared to avail ourselves of them to the fullest extent. 
uffice it to say, that with it we have not 
found the least need of tan, of course that article is 
entirely dispensed with, whereby a vast deal of trouble 
is saved, as also a considerable expence: the risk too 
of losing many tender plants, which frequently hap- 
pened in turning the tan in winter, is effectually ob- 
viated. 
It is known that steam does not consume or destroy 
the vital principle of the air, as flues invariably do, 
thereby rendering it unfit for vegetation: on the con- 
trary, the heat obtained from is regular, nutri- 
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