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Oil made from linden seed will never become rancid. It has no» 
tendency to oxygenate. It will stand a great degree of cold without 
freezing. Dr. Müller has exposed it to 3° F. below zero without being 
able to notice 2ny change. 
(Signed) ALFRED C. JOHNSON, 
Stuttgart, Püprenubar 29, 1893. Consul. 
CCCCIL—CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES. 
The following interesting article is reprinted from mà * Standard ” 
of September 16t , 1893. s a useful and, dot ibtless, c orrect summary 
in the columns of a daily newspaper. The moral has even more than a 
two-edged significance. Early vegetables are a luxury of the rich. 
They can always be produced in lower latitudes for consumption in 
higher. The enhanced cost principally represents the difficulty and 
distance of transport for perishable commodities. J = as the shores of 
the rs w and the Atlantic islands can supply Northern 
he Wes 
Euro o the t Indies can, in great measure, supply the great 
pid ins P communities of North America. 
This is one questi The other is the extension of intensive 
cultivation within iie British Isles. It is in vain that England has 
brought, me cultivation za ican t to a point which yields the greatest 
er acre 
import cabbages from Holland, the conditions of competition are 
sufficiently similar to make it probable that they might be grown at a 
rofit VA MN And the argument may be extended to other 
irc 
uir in the British Isles i eultivation of early vegetables is 
profitable industry sout 52° isotherm, beyon nd which lies 
extreme south-west Cornwall, the Seil ly, and the Channel Islands. A 
correspondence has taken place with the Irish Land Commission as to 
the possibility of extending the industry to south-west Ireland, the 
coast of which also lies south of the 52^ isotherm 
THE ImportTATION OF VEGETABLES. 
The tourist on the homeward-bound packet aera d the North Sea, 
the Channel, or hailing from the Mediterranean, cannot fail to notice 
that vegetable s form a great part of the freight. On ths quays of our 
north-eastern and southern ports, crates upon crates are always to be 
hoods of London, or any of the large provincial — the quantity and 
good quality of aarin vous Ap on costers’ stalls must at once attract 
attention, omatoes, a comparatively newly-ac quin. ri are to be 
had for a few pence per pound, and cauliflowers ean be purchased at 
one-third of the price they fetched a dozen years ago. Moreover, a 
distinet luxury, once enjoyed only by the very well- to-do appears jn 
fair quantity. Both last and this year, in all probability for the first 
