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means of obtaining this defirable objed, will 

 be by a proper attention and application to 

 Horticulture and Botany. In this view, the 

 following confiderations more particularly 

 prefent themfelves. 



I. The introduBion and cultivation of foreign 

 life fill and valuable plants. Our extent of ter- 

 ritory, our diverllty of Climate, of Soil, and 

 of Stuation, leaves not a doubt but that we 

 might introduce and cultivate to advantage, 

 many of the fame articles, whofe importation 

 at this time^ is to us, a confiderable expence. 

 The Thea viridis Sc hohea^ the true green and 

 bohea Tea plant, formerly accounted different 

 fpecies, but now known to be the fame, and 

 one of the greateft drainers of our wealth; 

 may be procured either from its native place 

 of growth, or from Europe where it has be- 

 come pretty common ; and we have every rea- 

 Ibn to believe, from its being the fpontaneous 

 produce of the fame parallel of latitude, and 

 from other confiderations refpedling its na- 

 tural hiftory, that it might thrive well in our 

 Southern States. In this fame viev/ the Vine, 

 the Almond Tree, Fig Tree, Liquorice, Ivlad- 

 der and Rhubarb, defervedly require our atten- 

 tion. Many other ^ foreign ufeful plants 

 might be enumerated, and the advantages 

 that may be derived to this Commonwealth 

 from their introduftion, encreafe and culture, 

 muft appear fufficiently obvious. 



^ See Tranfaaicns of the American Philofophical Society, 

 Vol, I. Page 155. 



