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a family to attend them in the unsettled vicinity of Cape Florida. This 
obstacle once overcome, he will ensure the rapid growth of a systematic 
garden of improved exotics, in which scientific arrangement, and even 
picturesque beauty, shall be blended with peactical utility —the grand 
end and aim of his persevering ambition. Believing, then, that the as¬ 
tonishing importance of a single year, in the geometrical progression of a 
distributing nursery, will justify the trial of every honorable means to 
hasten the period of its formation, this hurried address is, therefore, re¬ 
spectfully submitted to the patriotic friends of the speedy domestication 
of tropical plants, with the humble expectation that it may excite a 
subscription loan for that purpose. The honorable J. M. White, the del¬ 
egate from Florida in Congress, at Washington city, will take charge of 
all sums that may be thus advanced towards the contemplated nursery, 
and will return a receipt for the same to each subscriber, which will en¬ 
title him to an equivalent in plants or stock. 
HENRY PERRINE, 
Consul U. S. Ji, at Campeachy. 
October 4, 1832. ^ 
One thousand dollars will be paid by the subscriber for an invention 
to separate from the fresh leaves of the agaves those fibres which are 
called Sisal hemp,‘by a machine'which will save as much labor as Whit¬ 
ney’s gin in separating the seeds from cotton. 
H. PERRINE. 
We recommend the preceding circular to the effective consideration of 
every liberal mind. The friends of domestic industry must remember 
that, by the last tariff, the enterprise is deprived even of that protection 
which was incident to a revenue duty on tropical productions. The 
members of our horticultural societies must see, in this contemplated nur¬ 
sery of Dr. Perrine, the national botanic garden which they have so long 
desired in the South. The proprietors of green and hot-houses must con¬ 
sider it as the speediest and cheapest means of filling them with rare and 
beautiful exotics. And every patriot must regard its immediate estab¬ 
lishment as important in relation to the peace and prosperity of a now 
agitated community. We therefore sincerely hope that every “ intelli¬ 
gent friend of the Union” will speedily and cheerfully contribute his mite 
towards the formation of this nursery of tropical plants in tropical Florida. 
Editor of the Farmer. 
Extracts of official letters from the Secretary of State in Washington 
to the American consul at Campeachy. 
Department of State, 
Washington, October 19, 1833. . 
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of your 
letters of the 15th of July and 27th of August, and also of a copy of your 
letter of the 11th of September to the editor of the American Journal of 
