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isWr>af war, atid alsO' Mr.*Bu6'riabaiiy'#l'6VafeWii)iky"{a 

 England at that time.v He aft^tWafds' cultivatfe'd iti'ii^tliy 

 West Indies, Brazil, the Mauritius, Australia^ Tutkey, 

 %vpti'and inthiScoiihti'y. "'•'' 8''" Jn.il! >■'»'« i ji -ihsl 

 if'Tlie Kaffirs Cultivated sirteen Varieties th'at difTei-'ed 'iia' 

 thei amountrof saccharine principle, as well as in the! tikbe 

 required to mature.''^ In 1856 Mr. Wray exhibited sUg&t, 

 miilasses, alcohol, plants 'and seeds of the impJiee at tHe 

 Paris Exposition, and not only obtaitied a silver medal, but 

 a grant of twenty- five hundred acres' of land in Algiers 

 was'made him "by the French government, thai he iriight 

 prosecute his researches.'"'' During this saihe year,' Oratige 

 Jlttld,' of New York, distributed 25,000' packages of see'S. 

 to his subscribers, spreading them throughout tlie coUhil^. 

 In 1857;tMr.' Wray brought to the United States the Seeds 

 of se/eral varieties of impheey So then, when Mr. Browne 

 obtained the seed;* it was really in ilsinitiai'^tile cff cu'.'tivk- 

 tinn inHFrance. It had been grown in C'Hi^ia from tinie 

 immemorial, but with- the exclusiveness of that peoplfe, 

 its very existence had been jealously guarded from the 



iThe same, or a sirailarl'plant, had^ been' cultivated in' 

 Europe at different periods during the dark ages, but thw 

 want of intercourse, and the oppressive feudal system' dt 

 that 'lay had repressed any advancement in science arid a;rts,' 

 as well as in agriculture. .^[[iTaTflAY 



The elder Pliny, in the first century, describes a pl^t 

 under the nam^ of mjtfem'^Moli'ea; India in Ilalium.invectum.^ 

 iiujro colors, (a millet of dark.color brought from India to. 

 Italy).''' Milliufn means thousands, and refers to the, number| 

 of seed on a plant. Fiichius describes, in 15 1^, a |)lant| 

 cultivated in Belgium called sorghi. In 1552, Fragus says, 

 in a work on botany, a. j){anieum,pHnii^aLS cultivated in 

 Germany, and accurately describes this plant. In IMl 

 GoHiier names this Same plant' sor^r/iMm':' lu liSlynn^^'baS, 

 in his commentaries on Dioscorides, Matthioli calls it mdi- 



