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Withia i^ year'Or two stigaT"'has been 'made' fVb'rtifWW 

 goiocl quality, and ditririgk refierti visit to the .k.'gyfcftl§iflw 

 i)(^pattiii^nt at Washingloti; I'fea"*i^'Si$ecirtietis iDf s^gar*i^nM> 

 ufactiifed froMfl a fl'eW Variety as Cxicel'le^tin flavdr fenW #9hi^ 

 ais the best New Orffearis Sugafl I distributed '§o'rAe"yfa§h^ 

 seeds of this new variety, and I; confidently predict 'tli^¥ 

 Tennessee will, in ten jrearsj nlakfe snga'f enough ftifjofl«r 

 own cbrisQmptioa at a eotet less than five eerit^'pfer pound. 



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In the fall of 1853 Dr. Jay Browne was sent by the De- 

 partment of Agriculture to Eijrope^tp gather seed^ for dis- 

 tribution from the^ office. He saw a small paten of" s'brghum 

 at Verrieres, near Paris, and being struck with its resem- 

 blance to corn thought it would be an/aceession to-our forage 

 crops, and possibly might be used as*a sugar plant. ^^^ 



Four years before, M. de Montigqy had sent ",t linseed 

 from the north of China to the -Geographical Stieiety of 

 Paris, in a package of thany different kinds of see'ds. ;, They 

 were planted, and but one single sorghum seed *getmihated. 

 The product of this plant was distributed, and the next year, 

 so great was the demand, a gardener of Paris sold hisnea^** 

 crop to Vilmoriu, Audrieux & Co., of Paris, for a"fran^ a 

 seed. Through them it Was sent^over the whole of Europe 

 and America, for it was on. their farm Mr. Browne saw M 



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ein 1850 Mr. Leonard Wray, of the East Indies, a practi- 

 cal sugar pknterf on a vist to Kaffir-land, found the imphee, 

 aiiother species of siigap oaife, growing around the hhts of 

 the natives^ which they cultivated for its chewing qualities. 

 On examination, he discovered its rich saccharine cljaracter, 

 ahd t^-asiatisfied of its valtie. He therefore brought ife>ith 

 biin to England and had it planted there, as well as in 

 France and Belgium. )t He memorialized the French rain- 



