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Change of Colour in Oleander. — Editorial Notices. Vol. IX. 



Change of Colour in Oleander. 



Editor op F. Cabinet, — On Thursday 

 last I came to the city, and on my way 

 stopped at Shugart's tavern, in Fiourtown, 

 and was shown an Oleander tree, at present 

 in his dining room, and bearing- two pure 

 white flowers, which are the first and only 

 white flowers the tree ever produced — it is 

 a very fine specimen of the Oleander, and 

 has hitlierto produced red flowers, and in 

 great profiision. Is not this something re 

 markable, and will you or some of your nu- 

 merous readers, favour a subscriber to tlie 

 Cabinet, with the philosopliy of this, which 

 may prove also interesting to many of your 

 readers, and amateurs in horticulture. 



Lehigh, 



Philadelphia, Dec. 20U), 1844. 



We suppose the plant mentioned above, must have| 

 been kept during the time of flowering, very much in 

 the shade, and a good deal in the dark. Thi.s wouhl 

 have a tendency to whiten the flowers. We appre 

 hend the ne.xt crop of flowers, if the plant be kept e.\- 

 posed to the light of the sun, will be of the usual red 

 colour.— Ed. 



THE FARMERS' CAKINET, 



. AND 



Cure for the Distemper in Cattle. — I 



cannot resist giving a receipt for the treat- 

 ment of beasts that may take the prevalent 

 distemper. It showed itself last winter in 

 one of my yard stock, by discharging abun- 

 dant saliva from the mouth, with sore and 

 inflamed tongue and gums, no appetite, con 

 fined bowels, and very hot horns. I desired 

 the bailiff' to give him one half-pint of the 

 spirit of turpentine, with one pint of linseed 

 oil, repeating the oil in twenty-four hours, 

 and again repeating it according to the state 

 of the evacuations. At the end of twenty- 

 four hours more, the bowels not having been 

 well moved, I repeated both turpentine and 

 oil. In two days the beast showed symp- 

 toms of amendment, and in three or four 

 took to his food again, and did perfectly 

 well. All the yard beasts and two of the 

 fattening beasts have had it, and all have 

 been treated in the same manner, with per-' 

 feet success. Little beside oatmeal gruel 

 was given. — Quarterly Journal of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Philadelphia, First Month, 1845. 



To a friend at Norristown, who wishes information 

 as to where Cranberry bushes may be obtained for 

 transplanting, we can only say, that they will proba- 

 bly not be procured short of the Cranberry regions of 

 Burlington or Monmouth counties, in New Jersey, or 

 in the New England States. This fruit is frequently 

 propagated from the seed, though this method would 

 require a year or two more to bring the bushes into 

 bearing. The following from an Eastern paper, may 

 throw some light on the subject: 



" Mr. William Hall, who resides in the north part of 

 this town, sent us last week, a box of Cranberries, a3 

 large and as fine as we ever saw. We understand that 

 they grew on a little patch of boggy land, which bore 

 only weeds and rushes— and that a few years since, 

 Mr. Hall having some Cranberries which were brouglit 

 from the westward, sowed some of them in the spring, 

 upon the snow and ice. The seed took well, and has 

 entirely rooted out the weeds, and last year he gather- 

 ed about sis bushels of Cranberries from a patch of 

 land about three rods square, which a few years since 

 was entirely profitless. 



" The Massachusetts Ploughman states that a man 

 in that .State, has sold the Cranberries on a piece of 

 land not exceeding one-eighth of an acre, for fifty dol- 

 lars, the purchaser \o gather the fruit. We have long 

 been aware that this berry was easy to cultivate, as 

 well as profitable ; but have never known an instance 

 of their having been raised by sowing in the manner 

 pursued by Mr. Hall— and we recommend to all who 

 have such patches of ground, to make trial of it. The 

 expense is little or nothing if it fails— the profit is 

 great if it succeeds." 



We perceive by the last number of the CentralJ^rew 

 York Farmer, heretofore published at Rome, Oneida 

 CO., New York, that it is about to be discontinued and 

 united with the Cultivator, at Albany. 



Young Trees. — An excellent mode for 

 preventing young fruit trees from becoming 

 hide bound and mossy, and for promoting 

 their health and growth, is to take a bucke't 

 of soft soap, and apply it with a brush or old 

 cloth to the trunks from top to bottom; this 

 cleanses the bark and destroys Ihe worms or 

 the eggs of insects, and the soap becoming 

 dissolved by rains, descends to the roots and 

 causes the tree to grow vigorously. 



The Washington County Post, published at Salem, 

 New York, of the 25th ult., gives a detailed account of 

 ihe proceedings of the Agricultural Society, at its An- 

 nual Fair and Cattle Show, in the Ninth month last. 

 From the large number of premiums awarded, both on 

 account of crops and various kinds of stock, it is evi- 

 dent there is in Washington county, a lively interest 

 in every thing pertaining to the thri'ft and welfare of 

 the farmer. Eighty-three and a half bushels of corn— 

 the large Dutton— and seventy-nine and a hall bushels 

 of oats, carried off the premiums for those crops. One 

 of the committees makes some very judicious remarks 

 in relation to the value of the cow, particularly to the 

 poor man, who, if he is able to keep a good one, has 

 everyday manufactured, both morning and evening, 

 for his own use and that of his family, one of the 

 most nutritious substances afforded by animals or ve- 

 getables. 



