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and we use about six ounces to each house each time, 

 applied in the form of thick paint. The houses are 

 heated by hot water, and the sulphur paint is applied 

 to the under or return pipe alone. The best way is 

 ij to beat a lump of soft soap, as large as a walnut, up 

 in warm water ; and to add some clay water, made 

 by working a lump of clay in warm water until the 

 water becomes a thin paint ; then to blend this with 

 the soap water ; and finally to mix the sulphur also. 

 The soap and the clay form a body, and prevent the 

 sulphur washing or rubbing off. {Johnson and 

 Ellington on the Grape Fine, 134.) 



USES. 



To the Mangostein, in India, and especially by those 

 who have eaten it in the Straits of iMalacca, on whose 

 neighbouring shores it is alone found in perfection, is 

 ascribed the superlative place among fruits. In 

 England, where the Mangostein is unknown, the pre- 

 eminence of excellence is assigned to the pine-apple, 

 and this high merit was assigned more than a century 

 and a quarter ago, when its fruit was far less in colour, 

 size, and flavour than at present. We gather this 

 from the following inscription, copied from the picture 

 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, and noticed by us at p. 6 



