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will prove eminently successful. So far as this work and our efforts can 
advance the views of Dr. Perrine, they shall have our cordial support. We 
- are sorry a catalogue of seeds and plants did not accompany his letter, as 
no doubt the variety is great, and would the more readily command 
the attention of the liberal and patriotic citizens of the Southern States. 
Much time, attention, and labor, have been expended in procuring the - 
means of establishing a nursery, and, as “ the laborer is worthy of his hire,” 
we hope Dr. Perrine will receive a liberal remuneration from a generous 
public. . 
“ Key West, ( Tropical Florida,) June 30, 1837. 
“ Mr. Editor : Having long been a fellow-laborer in the great field of 
vegeculture, I respectfully address a few lines to your favorable consider¬ 
ation. With a large collection of seeds and vegetable products of Yuca¬ 
tan, I left Campeachy on the 28th of January last, and arrived at New 
Orleans on the 11th of February, with the intention of proceeding by the 
first opportunity to the vicinity of Cape Florida, to commence my accli¬ 
mating nursery of tropical plants. Having, however, waited in vain for a 
direct passage to this place, on the 5th of June I embarked for Havana, 
which city i left on the 15th, and arrived at Key West on the 17th instant. 
The renewed hostilities of the Seminoles at the southern extremity of the 
peninsHla have rendered it impossible for me to locate myself on the 
main land, and hence my present impressions are in favor of selecting a 
spot in this or some other islet, to plant my seeds, and to make a prepara- 
^ tory garden or nursery. This new disappointment of my cherished plan 
renders me still more anxious to excite some sympathy among the patri¬ 
otic friends of the enterprise of acclimating tropical plants, which I have 
pursued upwards of nine years, unaided and alone. I therefore transmit 
to you a copy of a circular by ex-Governor Roman, president of the Agri¬ 
cultural Society of Louisiana, intended to be directed to the presidents of 
all the agricultural societies of our Southern and Southwestern States, in 
which societies exist, and to the Governors of such of the same States as 
have not yet organized such societies. As my residence in Mexico pre¬ 
vented my gaining access to the files of the Southern Agriculturist, I am 
ignorant of the condition of South Carolina in that'respect'; and therefore 
leave blank the direction of the aforesaid circular, with the hope that you 
will be kind enough to fill it with ‘ to the President of the Agricultural 
Society of South Carolina,^ or ‘ to the Governor of the State of South Car¬ 
olina,’ as circumstances may require. 
“ Should you, besides directing said circular, be also so kind as to publish 
it in your periodical, my gratitude shall be yours, and will be manifested, 
in any way you direct. I believe that I have many quires of manuscript, 
whose publication in the Southern Agriculturist might be acceptable and 
profitable to your readers; but, until I can peruse your back numbers, my 
communications might embrace matters already, before them, and hence 
my unwillingness to risk any thing previous to the acquisition of your ' 
back volumns. As I have no botanical works of the United States of a 
later edition than Eaton’s Manual for 1833, I must take for granted that 
the latter contained the names of all plants, both indigenous and exotic, 
known at that period, until I can acquire a list of the plants subsequently 
discovered and introduced by others. A list of the tropical plants intro¬ 
duced by myself shall be at your service. In short, I believe that you and 
