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# is ufeful. to know, whether the tree 
which produces the latter, would fit the: 
elimate of Europe. Should this be natu- 
ralized here, there is no reafon to doubt, 
but that all vegetables whatever ‘may live 
up our climate; as that, of which it is a 
native, is the hotteft inthe globe. ‘The 
fand-plains of Senegal are its native 
country. . 
7. (Le Gowavier.) The guava; Pyo- 
dium Gopava, a fruit-tree of the Antilles ; 
the produGions of which form a mott 
excellent f{weet-meat. It is not to be 
doubted, but that this tree will thrive in 
the plains of Nice, as it has fucceeded at 
Layalette, in Proyence ; where it has 
been fo produttive, that feveral vigorous 
young plants have been reared from the. 
eed. 
8.. (Le Cirier d” Amerique.) The wax-. 
Bearing tree of America; Myrica Penfyl- 
wanica, M.P. A fhrub, fae feeds of 
which are enveloped ina matter, out of 
which tapers are made.» Thefe give 
souch light, and afford a balfamic odour, 
wery ferviceable in pulmonary com- 
plaints *. Our candles, on the contrary, 
axe highly pernicious, even to the - 
ftrongeit lungs. “ 
g. (Le Cedre du Liban.) The eedar of 
Eebanon; Pinus Cedrus. ‘The talleft and 
Eergeft tree of the temperate climates. 
‘Fhis tree ought to be planted on a high 
mountain, with a northerly expofition ; 
its. wood is the leaft ‘corruptible of any 
we are acquainted with. The progre?- 
fion of its growth, in a chmate warmer 
than our own, would be an interefling 
acquilition to natural hiftery. 
to. (Le Baxanier.) ‘The banana ; Mufa 
Paradifiaca. L. A grand herbaceous 
plant, that produces a bunch of trut,: 
fometimes weighing 8olb. It 1s ufed as 
a food im America; and is favory, nou- 
rifhing, and heaithy. By planting it 
near a brook, and fheltering it trom. the 
winds, it is probable that it will grow 
and multiply exceedingly +. 
zi. (Le Canne a fucre.) 
€ane; faccharum op:cimarum L. 
minecus plant, which has 
the death of more men than exitts, 
baps, at this préefent moment on the face 
ef the globe; as much by the devouring 
avidity of riches, infpired into the breaits 
of Europeans, as) by the horrible de- 
vaftation of Africa, whither thoufands 
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* Tres propre a rétablir les poitrines deiabrécs.’ 
Notre luminaire, au contraive, adeiruit les poi- 
arines les micux conflituces. 
“+ TV faw a banana, bearing fruit, about 
three years fince,-in Kew gardens. Tr. 
Orig. 
Interefling Botanical Experiments. 
of men, who’ traffic in men, repair am- 
nnally, to carry away its labourers inte 
climates, equaliy fatal to flaves and their 
proprietors. ‘This too famous plant “is 
already cultivated in the ifles of the Ar- 
ehipelago, in Sicily, and the kinsdomof 
alencia, in Spain. Wherefore is it nor 
alfo. cultivated in the dominions of’ the 
Maritime Alps ? ‘There it would vivify; 
inftead of deftroying. Rey 
12. (Un jeune pied de cafe). A young 
em of the coffee-tree ; coffea Arabia. L. 
What has been faid of the fugar-cane, 
may be faid alfo of the coffee-tree. There 
exifts more probability, however, in fa- 
vour of the naturalization of it,than of the 
former. All that rocky country, in which, 
Monzeo is fituated, appears exceedingly 
proper for its cultivation, and perhaps 
alfo, for giving to its berries a quality 
approaching that of the mocha,’ which is 
very differentfrom what is produced om 
the hilis of the Antilles. 
Progrefs of the above plants, during 2 
fhort :efidence in, the department of the 
Maritime Alps. uf 
The citizen. entruffed with the convey- 
ance (et de l'educatzon) and culture of 
thefe precious vegetables, has invited the 
conftituted authorities,:and thofe con-. 
verfant in fuch fabjeéts, to examine their 
prefent ftate. It refults from this exami- 
nation, that the fugar-eane, which, om 
its departure from Paris, on the 29th of 
Prairial, was one feet, five inches im 
height, in the firft decade of Vendemaire, 
had attained five feet fexen inches, and 
shot forth thirty-three fuckers, of which, 
three have Ween replanted. apt 
The coffee-tree, at its departure, was 
abfolutely ftripped of its leaves ; the vé- 
getation is now abundant, and it has 
pufhed forth {mall branches. 7 
The cedars are covered with new buds. 
Four different {pecies of cotton were 
fown on the 8th Termidor, viz. ? 
1. That of St. Domingo; it 1s go m-_ 
ches in height. 
2, That ot Stam: i£48 ze do- a 
3. That of Pondicherry: at is 20:do. 
4° That of Malta? Gt iS 3 tg. ae 
On the fame day were fown, four diftet- 
ent fpecies of indigo, viz.“ siete: 
t. The indigo of Java: it is 3°m 
ches in Height. 
2. That “of Pondicherry :* it as” 3 
do. 
3. That of Agrac eis :q@. ae 
4. That of the Ifle of France, which 
has not rifen. peeenican ae 
The different teas are aH in adine flate 
of vegetation. 
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