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eludes those which are natives of our own 

 country, and indigenous to our soil, being 

 the stock with which nature originally fa^ 

 voured us, as most suitable to our climate. 



To the latter description of soil, and to the 

 latter class of vegetables, I propose to limit 

 myself ; — satisfied that if I find abundant em- 

 ployment for the industrious and imoccupied 

 poor, THE Board of Agriculture will 

 not be displeased to find that it is to be on 

 hitherto untouched ground ; and that they 

 will be gratified when they see the exertions 

 they have taken such pains to call out, are 

 to be expended in giving some value to 

 grounds that never had any before, and in 

 improving the produce of others, that had 

 hitherto been but scanty. Nor, should these 

 ends be answered, will the Board complain, 

 when they find that the vegetables I mean 

 to throw into greater luxuriance, are not de- 

 scended from a foregn breed, but the indige- 

 mus, aboriginal occupants of our soil. 



I do not mean, in any instance, to adopt 



