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been particularly described in this country by 

 Dr. Holder, that of intenerating butchers' 

 meat or poultry. This singular property is not 

 even hinted at in the last edition of Miller's 

 Dictionary* The juice rubbed on beef or mut- 

 ton has the effect of rendering the meat as 

 tender as veal or lamb, without injuring its 

 other qualities. Indeed it is affirmed, that if a 

 fowl be hung against the trunk of a Papaw-tree, 

 it becomes intenerated in a short space of time, 

 by mere proximity ; and that the oldest poultry 

 may thus be rendered as tender as chickens. 

 In stoves in England, the Papaw-tree has been 

 known to attain the height of twenty feet in 

 three years, and to produce its fruit and flowers: 

 it is not, however, a durable plant. 



NEPEtlTHIS DISTILLATOR1A ; OR, PITCHER- 

 PLANT, 



The most extraordinary vegetable production 

 of Java, and other Eastern islands, is the Ne- 

 penthis distillatoria, or Pitcher-Plant, which 

 is found in most arid situations, but is provided 

 with a curious contrivance for securing a suffi- 

 cient supply of moisture. To the footstalk of 



