Bridgewater.
_The Vinegar Plant._--Is it indigenous or imported? Some botanists and
_savans_ who have examined the subject take the former view. I should be
inclined to take the latter, for the following among other reasons:--First,
because it is known that many specimens of it _have been so introduced_
from various quarters. Secondly, because in all the attempts to produce it
that I have heard of, including some experiments made by myself, in no
instance has a specimen been procured by means of any of the moulds that
are of spontaneous growth in this country, which has entirely resembled the
vinegar plant, or which has been so efficient in the production of vinegar.
Thirdly, because in tropical and warm climates abnormal variations of
vegetable productions are much more likely to originate, and to become
naturalised, than in this country. If imported, perhaps some of your
correspondents could say where it was originally brought from.