396 
It has also been Introduced Into cultivation in the southern kingdoms 
of Europe. Italy, Spain, the South of France, and within a few years into 
Hungary. 
In Carolina it has long been a staple commodity. Mr. Houghton’s 
account of its introduction there is, that Mr, Ashby was encouraged to send 
a hundred pound-bags full of Rice to that province, from which in 1008, 
sixty tons were imported into England.* 
Mr. Dalrymple says, that Rice in Carolina is the result of a small bag of 
Paddy, given as a present from Mr. Dubois, treasurer of the East India Com¬ 
pany, to a Carolina trader. A Dutch vessel also from Madagascar brought 
Rice into the same province; and to that is attributed their having two 
kinds;f 
Mr. Miller cultivated it here in 17394 but Gerarde had it long before, 
for he says “ the flower did not show itself with me, by reason of the 
injury of our unseasonable year 1506.” In his time stoves were un¬ 
known. 
In the hilly parts of Java, and in many of the Eastern Islands, the 
Mountain Rice is planted upon the sides of hills, where no water but rain 
can come; it is however planted in the beginning of the rainy season, and 
reaped in the beginning of the dry season. The natives call it Paddy 
Gunung, which signifies Mountain Rice. In the western parts of India it is 
entirely unknown.§ 
It is very general in Cochinchina, where it thrives in dry light soils 
mostly on the sides of hills, not requiring more moisture than the usual 
rains and dews supply, neither of which is frequent at the season of its 
vegetation. || 
% The French colonies are indebted to M. Poivre for introducing this dry 
rice into Cochinchina.<*[[ 
Propagation and Culture in China . 
Much of the low grounds in the middle and southern provinces of 
China is appropriated to the culture of Rice; which constitutes the principal 
part of the food of all those who are not so indigent as to be forced to * 
* Collections, 2. 46 1 . -j- Oriental Repertory, i. + Hort. Kew. 
§ Cook’s Yoy. 2. 732 . || Staunton’s Emb, to China, i. 349. 
If Rochon, Madag. Introd, p. 45, 
