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1 shall only rely upon Nature, with the slightest encou- 

 ragement, for throwing up, of herself , the very florin crops I 

 am so anxious to have produced, and for continuing them 

 in steady luxuriance, at one third of the expence now re- 

 quired to keep up the crops that grow on our best grounds. 



I have thus, in addition to my desire of gratifying my 

 Imperial Pupil, two motives for now coming forward, and 

 probably for the last time, on the florin subject; the one, 

 to prevent some of my early positions from leading any one 

 into error, either by encouraging the continuance of some 

 practices, which I have found it prudent to abandon; — or 

 by enabling the enemies of florin (and they are many) to 

 depreciate its value, by pointing out instances, where I 

 myself have found it necessary to give up its culture, even 

 under the very circumstances where I had once most 

 strongly recommended it. 



My second motive is, to avail myself of the oppor- 

 tunity the late flattering application has aff'orded me, of 

 bringing forward an agricultural subject, and of recom- 

 mending measures, which I consider as of vital importance 

 to the nation, in the administration of a Viceroy of 

 known attachment to the agricultural interests of his own 

 country, and who, I have no doubt, will warmly patronize 

 and foster those of the kingdom over which he now 

 presides : and perhaps the more readily, when he flnds the 

 style of improvement which I hope to see further advanced 

 in my own country, has already completely succeeded in 

 Beinmark; and that its success there, has reached the 

 ears of some of the most eminent personages, and most 

 zealous agricultural amateurs on the Continent ; and has 

 inspired them with a wish to see the dominions of their 

 Imperial brother partake of the benefits so gratefully 

 acknowledged by their Danish neighbours. 



Other governors, had I called on them, might have been 



