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to it. From the liquor so prepared, the sheets of paper are 

 poured out one by one, and when pressed the operation is 

 finished." 



" The juice of this tree is sufficiently tenacious to be used 

 in China as a glue, in gilding either leather or paper. The 

 finest and whitest cloth worn by the principal people at 

 Otaheite, and in the Sandwich Islands, is made of the bark 

 of this tree. The cloth of the Bread Fruit tree is infeiior 

 in whiteness and softness, and worn chiefly by the common 

 people." 



NECTARINE. 

 PECHERA FRUIT LISSE, ou BROGNONS. Jlmygdalus nectarina. 



THE varieties of this fruit resemble the Peach in every 

 respect, except that the skin is peifectly smooth, of a waxen 

 appearance, and the flesh generally more firm ; although of 

 the same genus as the Peach, which is so plentiful in this 

 country, the fruit of the Nectarine is quite a rarity, and sel- 

 dom appears in our markets. There are seventy-two varie- 

 ties cultivated in the Horticultural Garden of London under 

 name. 



It is generally allowed that their failure here is occasioned 

 by the attacks of insects. The most efficacious method that 

 I have heard of for securing any thing like a crop of Nec- 

 tarines, is to fumigate the trees in the evening, when the air 

 is calm and serene, at the season when the fruit is ready to 

 set. Tobacco is the most effectual antidote for these insects ; 

 but a friend of mine collected a quantity of salt hay that 

 had been used for his Spinach the preceding winter ; with 

 this he created a smoke, first on one side of his plantation, 

 and afterward on the other, by which means he obtained a 

 good supply of fruit. Our enterprising horticulturist, Mr. 

 W. Shaw, has succeeded in gathering fine fruit, by pursuing 

 the English plan, namely, in training his trees against a close 



