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ROB'TUS NAUNTONIUS.”

HE Editor of the MONTHLY REVIEW presents his compliments to Mr. Urban, and will thank him to insert, in his respectable and widely circulating Work, the inclosed communication from the Rev. Dr. Richardson, of Moy, in Ireland. The curiosity and probable importance of the subject would have induced the Editor to give ready insertion to this paper in the Correspondence of the Monthly Review, had not its extent forbidden but he hopes that a similar inducement will procure a place for it in the Gentleman's Magazine, where the same objection may not apply.

The Editor of the Monthly Review takes this opportunity of referring to a late paragraph in the GenUleman's Magazine, recording the

To the Editor of the Monthly Review. SIR, Moy, June 25, 1816. I yesterday met with your Review for October 1815, in which you are pleased to make observations on Papers of mine, on the subject of FIORIN GRASS, published some two or three years ago by the Bath Agricultural Society.

The style in which you comment, is so different from that I am used to meet with, that I shall treat you with an attention and a respect am not in the habit of paying to anonymous writers who criticize my Essays..

Your object seems merely to inform your readers;-your mention of me is generally flattering, and when you differ from me it is with civility, and even tenderness.

I shall therefore endeavour to second your intentions by enabling you to give further information to your readers, more especially upon the points on which you yourself seem to entertain some doubts.

You are so kind as to say: "That the evidence of so respectable and enlightened a man as Dr. Richardson, ought to induce practical Farmers in England, to make a fair trial of the Fiorin."

So it has; but I boldly say, in no one instance that has reached me, with a strict observance of the rules I have laid down, for the cultivation of a new vegetable, and which I myself learned by a diligent attention for years to the habits, and natural history of a Grass, differing in both, as well as in its periods, from those of any other yet cultivated

by man-Rules which the experience of

ten years has fully demonstrated to me, to be essentially necessary to secure the luxuriance and value of this favourite

of mine.

You proceed, "Dr. Richardson is fully aware that the great point he is required to establish, is not the suitableness of Fiorin to all soils, but its ABSOLUTE VALUE."

The suitableness of Fiorin to all soils

is a quality of more importance than you seem to think, and its aptitude for all climates and all elevations, of far

greater; for the grand desideratum in all frozen Northern latitudes is, provender for their winter cattle;· ;and in

* Supplement to Part I. p. 635.

parched

parched tropical climates, succulent food for their domestic animals, when all verdure vanishes.

Now at this moment, and for four months to come, Fiorin may be seen growing in great luxuriance on my own demesne at Clonfeele, on many varieties of soil, from light dry thin upland grounds, to deep miry morass, on a surface not twelve inches higher than the contiguous perpetually stagnant water.

That Fiorin suits Northern latitudes, is established by the exultation of the DANES, who have already cultivated Fiorin extensively, and are profuse in their expressions of gratitude in our own Papers, for the introduction of a vegetable, whose surprizing produce has made (as they say) a new era in the Agricultural History of DENMARK.

The NEWFOUNDLANDERS have begun (as appears from the ST. JOHN's Gazette) to cultivate Fiorin under my directions; and when RUSSIA sent a Scavant to me, to consult me on the introduction of this grass into the UKRAIN, where they much want winter fodder, after giving the best advice I could, I strove to divert their attention to ARCHANGEL, where I was more secure of success.

As to tropical climates, I have the authority of Col. WILKES, who cultivated Six Acres of Fiorin at MADRAS, for saying, that his numerous cattle were fed on the most succulent herbage, while his neighbours were scraping up grass roots for theirs. The Colonel's example is followed at CALCUTTA, and he has since cultivated Fiorin in ST. HELENA with complete success.

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Still I must agree with you that " SOLUTE VALUE" is the grand object, and in my opportunities for establishing this criterion, I have been singularly fortunate, nothing wanting but an unprejudiced tribunal.

The ABSOLUTE VALUE of my Fiorin crops at my usual residence, where they exceed 20 acres, has been reported upon by the NOBILITY, PRELATES, and GENTRY, of my own Country, who have been so kind as to come to inspect them; - by the persons sent officially from different AGRICULTURAL Societies in IRELAND, SCOTLAND, and MAN, for the same purpose, and more especially by the liberal premiums granted by the BATH SOCIETY, by the HIGHLAND SOCIETY of SCOTLAND, and the FARMING SOCIETY of IRELAND, to the most, successful Candidates in odraising great crops of Fiorin; and I have 1903 the satisfaction to add, that my own

the number of my annual inspectors, and of course my witnesses in support of your favourite test, ABSOLUTE VALUE.

My summer residence has been for many years near the Giant's Causeway, an object of much curiosity, and visited by hundreds every summer. For several years past my Fiorin crops, and the far superior crops of my friend and neighbour, Mr. M'NAGHTEN, our late County Representative, have been considered as part of the curiosities of the country, and regularly visited by most strangers, who never fail to express their astonishment at the immense fleece they see on our grounds: hence I am furnished with a cloud of witnesses, of all ranks, from OUR VICEROY down to the solitary wandering Naturalist, ready to establish your great point, the absolute value of Fiorin.

I shall mention but one witness by name, trusting that both the agricultural celebrity of the gentleman, and his opportunities for informing himself on this subject, will plead my excuse.

Mr. CURWEN would not believe the first accounts he received of the extraordinary properties of Fiorin, and avowed himself an enemy; at length he was converted by the immense Fiorin crops of GENERAL DIROM, at Annan; he instantly determined to retract his errors, and invited me to be present. I attended, was received with much respect, as well as kindness, and acquired a most valuable friend to myself, as well as to the Fiorin cause.

Mr. CURWEN has since returned my visit, examined my Fiorin crops both at CLONFEELE and PORTRUSH, as well as those of my friends and pupils, the BISHOP OF DERRY, and Mr. M'NAGHTEN; he has himself measured and weighed in different places, and authorizes me to say, he found amounts to the full as great as I ever had stated.

When you gave so much importance to the question of ABSOLUTE VALUE, I could not resist the opportunity of bringing forward the testimony of a Gentleman of such respectability, and so competent a judge of the question.

You quote at some length passages from my Memoir in which I state my Fiorin crops to have run from five to seven, and even to eight tons of hay,but where I say, " that having by practice become better acquainted with this grass, and having carried its culture into more favourable ground, I hope next year to reach ten tons," you can contain yourself no longer, but exclaim, Is not this too sanguine an expectation? Ten tons per acre no farmer ever expected to reap; if this could be,