VEGETABLES, 



portion of hay for Winter provender, but a variety 

 of considerations should, nevertheless, induce the 

 eultivation of such artificial grasses as are found to 

 be particularly adapted to warm climates: such as 

 the lucerne, and avsena elatior or tall meadoAv oats^ 

 already mentioned, together with the aquatic Scott'a 

 grass, and Guinea grass, which add so greatly to the 

 Gomforts of the people of the West Indies.* 



But probably as important a grass as any for the 

 southern States is the Bermuda grass, which grows 

 with great luxuriance, and propagates with aston- 

 ishing rapidity, by means of its numerous joints, 

 every one of which takes root, and thus also per- 

 forms the important office of binding the sandy soil 

 in which it grows. 



Varieties of Grain. 

 Qf the varieties of grain with wliich Providence 

 has blessed mankind, and capable of being convert- 

 ed into bread; the United States were originally 

 intirely indebted toother quarters of the world;! t>ut 

 if they cannot boast of originating those necessary 

 vegetables, the United States may, with justice, 

 claim the merit of improving the qualities of those 

 kinds which have been introduced, and of producing 

 from them some inestimable varieties, superior, in 

 point of quality, to any in the known world. This 

 assertion is not hastily made, or v^/ithout sufficient 

 a'Uthority....The superiority of the American fiour 



* See Wond. of Nat. and Art, vel, x. 

 t Zizania aquatica excepted. See p. 222. 



