MUSEUM OF NATgSAL ,ii5jO«y,i! 
25th Congress, 
2d Session. 
[ Rep. A’o. 564. ] 
Ho. OF Reps 
IC: d . oy 
. U a henry PEHRINE—tropical PLANT^y^ JORR 
lACiHX accompany bill H. R. No. 653.] 
In thi House op Representatives, Mco'ch 8, 1838. 
Ordered, That five thousand copies, extra, be printed of the report of the Committee on Ag. 
nculture, on the memorial of Dr. Henry Perrine, in relation to the culture of tropical plants, for 
the use of the members of the House. * ' 
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February 17, ISsIT 
Mr. Deberry, from the Committee on Agriculture, made the following 
I REPORT: 
T/ie ComrnUiee on Agriculture, to which was referred the memorial of 
Doctor Henry Perrine, late consul at Campeachy, asking a grant of 
land in the southern extremity of East Florida, for the encourage¬ 
ment of the growth of new and important agricultural products ex 
otic vegetables, and tropical plants, have had the same under coLid 
eration, and report 
The memorialist sets forth in his petition that, in the year 18^7 while 
he was acting consul of the United States at Campeachy and Tabasco 
he was o^cially instructed, by the circular of the Treasury Department of 
the 6th of September of that year, to aid the desires of the General Gov 
eminent to introduce into the United States all such foreign trees and’ 
plants, of whatever nature, as may give promise, under proper cultivation 
of flourishing and becoming useful. That, in obedience to said circular! 
the time, labor, and funds of the memorialist were devoted to that nur 
pose, by which he obtained and transmitted to this country much useful 
information concerning various valuable plants which mky be success 
fully domesticated in the United States ; and that, in discharging these 
g governmental duties; he was obliged to sacrifice all opportunities of 
"^making money by his profession, or by mercantile pursuit! which in the 
same period and region, had furnished fortunes to his unofficial country¬ 
men; and, as funds nffi been appropriated by Government to promote 
the objects of the said Treasury circular, the perquisites of his consulate 
did not defray one-third of his personal expenses ; and, as a reward for 
hm sacrifices, and a premium to encourage the introduction and culture 
of tropical plants in the United States, he asks of Congress a townsW^f 
land in the southern extremity of East Flosida, which, in soil, climate 
enteprise, he thinks affords the most 
favorable location, by means of gardens or nurseries, to contain all 
^ical vegetabl es of utility or ornament, which, after due seasoning 
I homas Allen, print. ° 
